http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/05/10/streisand-digg-web-tech-cx_ag_0511streisand.html
In the aftermath of the Digg revolt we suffered through endless alarmist screeds about the “dangers” of community mobs. This is now giving way to the media’s newest fear: the Streisand Effect, the Web-based antibody to corporate damage control efforts. As Forbes reports: “When the Streisand effect takes hold, contraband doesn’t disappear quietly. Instead, it infects the online community in a pandemic of free-speech-fueled defiance, gaining far more attention than it would have had the information’s original owners simply kept quiet.”
Free speech is conveyed here as a disease that infects communities, just like the epidemic from 28 Days Later. This is how too many old guard companies view their customers–as mindless, sludge-sucking zombies.
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