not really the same thing
the streisand effect and superinjunctions were about preventing information from going public, such as barb's house location or footballer's infidelities. this hunter biden post was already a story in a high circulation murdoch rag.
What was effective in the 2016 election was the placing of bullshit lies in front of people (targeted using big data sets of firms like Cambridge Analytica) who rely mostly on facebook (and now twitter) for their news, who in the absence of any critical analysis believed them. So these people were actively targeted to get the NYPost article in front of their eyeballs using facebook by using fb paid advertising model, which was one of the motivation for the ban. Facebook and twitter doing blanket bans on such bullshit limits that impact, which is why conservatives are bleating about cutting off what was an effective dirty trick. Sure, because of the controversy of banning, some people who didn't know about the original story may hear that it's been banned, but even that's not guaranteed as many of the people targeted don't read traditional news that discusses the banning. And crucially, though it may feed into the conspiracy theorist "all media is against trump" mindset, those that hear about the ban and the story will also now be aware that it's credibility has been challenged, something that wasn't done in 2016. As I said below, if it really was some killer blow against Biden maybe the ban would be counterproductive to his chances, though I'd still say bullshit lies should be policed whichever side it comes from
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 16 Oct 2020, 1:00,
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You are a long winded cunt.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 16 Oct 2020, 2:31,
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aww, the little boy is upset and angry
his mummy says it's not little prufock's fault, he has ADD and this is how he expresses himself around adults
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 16 Oct 2020, 4:26,
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In 2020 you can use it sensu lato
"The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet."
I suggested the term as a succinct alternative to a robust comment
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 16 Oct 2020, 6:47,
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fair enough, though these modern coinages do tend to semantically broaden themselves, a bit like someone yesterday on links calling some trailertrash racist a "karen"
I was more making the case that the consequences wouldn't be that bad, and I think that's been evidenced by it mostly falling off the news cycle today, not even the trump camp seems to show much energy in pushing it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 16 Oct 2020, 7:24,
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