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Overt Censorship: A Fatal Mistake?

By Jean-Loup Richet
Communications of the ACM, August 2013, Vol. 56 No. 8, Pages 37-38
10.1145/2492007.2492021
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Censorship of information often has the opposite effect by drawing attention to the censored material.

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Michael Schwartz

August 08, 2013 11:16

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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