Streisand effect

Meaning

Noun

• A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.

Origin

• Coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.