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Nick Denton Using The Streisand Effect For All It's Worth
from the silly-facebook dept
Two stories popped up on the radar this morning that involve Gawker publisher/editor Nick Denton using threats of bans to get a lot more attention (which is likely exactly what he wanted). The first one seems minor, but is still important. Just a few weeks ago, Tom Lee was talking about how people need to assume that any info they put online on a social network site should be considered public info. Given that, it's interesting to see Nick Denton is facing a ban from Facebook for publishing some info from someone's Facebook profile on Gawker. While publishing the info may have been mean or tacky, and may have even violated Facebook's terms of service, it's laughable to think that banning Denton would actually stop that kind of activity. If anything, it would make it more common. First of all, it's not even clear if it was Denton himself who found the info, or if it was submitted by someone else. However, if Facebook does go through with a ban, many Gawker fans will take it upon themselves to send him info and screenshots from Facebook. All the ban will do, a la the Streisand Effect, is draw more attention to the fact that Gawker publishes info from Facebook profiles.
The second case, involves the Church of Scientology. Denton posted a video of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology. Scientologists are infamous for their attempts to misuse copyright law to take down any content they don't like. However, Denton is fighting back, and getting the video (and, of course, Gawker) a lot more attention in doing so. It certainly looks like Denton has figured out how to use such threats to his own advantage.
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So since it can't be stopped, I guess its ok that people can be mean or tacky or jerk like. Is that where we are all going? Thats what we want to strive for? Screw it, technology allows it, it can't be stopped so we just need to accept it. Thats the end game huh? Kind of sad really.
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HarHar
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glad you ran this one, mike
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Sure it was interesting the first couple of times but it is as tired and boring as "Tomkat" and "Bennifer"
Give it a rest.
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It's a theme he mentions here - it's his blog, the fact that you are reading and then commenting about it says enough...
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Using the Streisand Effect to avoid Jumping the Sh
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Your "guess" is wrong. Where does it say or even imply in Mike's post that it's "OK" to be tacky or a jerk? The point of Mike's post is that even when someone has the right to do something -- in this case, ban a Facebook member -- it often has the exact opposite effect as intended. That's the Streisand Effect.
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I laugh when some people have over 500 friends, you know they just allow whoever to add them.
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