More about Streisand (and this should be all I ever say about her)

Have you ever heard of The Streisand Effect?

Let me tell you about it with an example. 

Recently, Congressman Devin Nunes (R,CA) got himself all up in a hissy because some people satirized him by creating a fake Twitter page under the name "Devin Nunes' Cow."

They could tell that I had nothing to do with this spoof, because I would have insisted that the proper name would be "Devin Nunes's Cow."

Nunes's family owns a cattle ranch; that's where the beef got started here.  And the people who wrote the fake tweets were harsh on Nunes, who once sponsored a bill in Congress to cut down on frivolous lawsuits.

Always one for the ironic, he titled it the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act.

And now he has filed lawsuits against the people who created the fakery, and that brought even more attention to them (and negative attention to the congressman, who came off looking like a bit of a sorehead in the whole thing.)

So what does this have to do with diva Barbara?  Well, in 2003, she made a big freakin' deal about not wanting anyone to take pictures of her palatial oceanside mansion in Malibu, CA.

Instead of being happy that people who don't get to live like Queen Tut wanted to see her digs so they would be a little happier in their meager huts, she tried to stop people from flying over the joint, and since she is not a national monument, the only thing that came from all this is, she got more attention drawn to the place, and hundreds and hundreds of pictures taken of it.

The Streisand effect is defined as "a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the internet. It is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, their motivation to access and spread it is increased."

Hey Barb - enjoy the attention! And you can come over and take a picture of my house any time! It's a lot like yours (above) in that it has a roof and a floor and cable tv!