[LINK] quote about lists of censored materials

[Craig Sanders]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:18:39AM +1100, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> I guess things never change:
>
> "The government of Hapsburg Vienna in 1765 published a catalogue of
> forbidden books. Twelve years later this catalogue had to be included
> in itself because people were using it as a guide to interesting
> reading."

in other words, the Streisand Effect[1] pre-dates both the internet and
Barbara Streisand by at least 200 years? and it probably wouldn't be
hard to find examples dating back at least another millenia or two (the
Roman suppression of Christianity, for example, could hardly be called a
resounding success).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

craig

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