How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information

HOBBS, W. R., & ROBERTS, M. E. (2018). How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information. American Political Science Review, 112(3), 621-636.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2018

DOI

10.1017/s0003055418000084

Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000084

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Primes

• Streisand Effect
  • In authoritarian information control, blocking a page or hashtag advertises its existence and content, and mirrors proliferate as the item acquires forbidden-fruit status.

    This sourceShows that suddenly blocking a widely used platform advertises and increases access to the censored content (a 'gateway'/forbidden-fruit effect), supporting the authoritarian-information-control instance where blocking a page or hashtag triggers mirror proliferation.

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