Bloggers Versus Billionaire

Roger Whittaker writes "An interesting case in England is pitting the combined power of multiple bloggers against an Uzbek billionaire. The bloggers are supporting the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who has written a book about what happened there after the fall of Communism. The book is apparently unflattering in the extreme to oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who has engaged the law firm Schillings (which seems to specialize in getting unfavorable Web content removed for rich clients). Their threats have led to the removal of Murray's blog site by his hosting company Fasthosts. But a large number of bloggers have taken up Murray's cause, and the content that caused the original complaint, and links to it, have now sprung up in a very large number of places. The Internet still seems to regard censorship as damage and route around it."

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Re:Just another chapter of the Streisand effect

[Technician]

Attempting to suppress a piece of information nowadays practically guarantees that it will be more widely disseminated than ever

And the effect has a name from when this was first noticed in a big way.
Streisand effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect