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Kara BOOOOOchanan 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @magicariot.com · 07/05/2026

Anyway I think it is very, very funny that the guy who coined the term “Streisand Effect” is literally on the BlueSky board

The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick of Techdirt after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph by Kenneth Adelman showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California."][2][31

How long is it going to take before lawyers realize that the simple act of trying to
repress something they don't like online is likely to make it so that something that most people would never, ever see (like a photo of a urinal in some random beach resort) is now seen by many more people?
Let's call it the Streisand Effect.
—Mike Masnick, "Since When Is It Illegal To Just Mention A Trademark Online?", Techdirt (January 5, 2005)

Bluesky
Blog > Bluesky Welcomes Mike Masnick to ...
Bluesky Welcomes Mike Masnick to
Board of Directors
August 6, 2024
by The Bluesky Team
We're thrilled to announce that Mike Masnick has joined Bluesky's Board of Directors. He is the author of the Protocols, not Platforms paper that first inspired the Bluesky initiative, and he is the founder and editor of Techdirt, among other accomplishments.
Mike has been an early supporter of Bluesky's

Gaia_BentosZX5 @bento-bongos.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

And I believe he's one of those anime fans on prom night mighty no. 9 talks about.