German Politician's Plan To Block Wikipedia Backfires… Badly
from the nice-try,-though dept
How many times will situations like the following happen before people realize how badly trying to suppress information online backfires? Apparently, a German politician who was upset about some things in his Wikipedia profile went to court and got a judge to issue an order to block Wikipedia’s German site. Of course, as soon as news of this came to light, the politician backed down and apologized. So, instead of getting the information he wanted suppressed, now that information has been brought to many more peoples’ attention, and (of course) the site will remain accessible. Good work.
Filed Under: germany, streisand effect, wikipedia
Comments on “German Politician's Plan To Block Wikipedia Backfires… Badly”
Old Lessons relearned.
It’s not the story -it is the cover up.
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The number of people that want to ruin it for everyone else amazes me. Need more people that give a damn IMO
Remember politicians; if you don’t like it, its probably breaking a law somewhere. 😛
Someone should put in a section on this event on the page that discusses him on Wikipedia. THAT would be a complete backfire.
duh
why didn’t he just edit the information himself.
Re: duh
No kidding? Must be a pretty r3tarded politician.
Re: Re: duh
isn’t “retarded politician” redundant?
Thank you...
Streisand effect.
It is almost shocking to me how dumb politicians are and it seems like the majority don’t really understand the fundamentals of the information age. Censorship no longer works and is like sending up a “Look at me” flare when they try to suppress unflattering information. They would do far better by trying to live more honorable lives than trying to scrub reality.