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.
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- 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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Describes the Streisand effect (censorship publicizes content, raising its perceived value) as known backlash, but its own China Instagram data show no such effect and it never mentions mirrors.
“has commonly been known as the “Streisand effect,” Footnote 3 which occurs when censored information increases in perceived value because the censorship efforts unintentionally publicize it.”
- In authoritarian information control, blocking a page or hashtag advertises its existence and content, and mirrors proliferate as the item acquires forbidden-fruit status.
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