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[[File:Streisand Estate.jpg|thumb|500px|[[Barbra Streisand]] doesn't want you to see this picture. [[Sarcasm Mode|Well done, Barbra]].]]
{{quote|"''[[New Media Are Evil|I'm not against violence]] - I'm against censorship, because withholding [[Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000|Cock Haemhorrage IV]] from your kids only makes them more interested. If you stopped making a big deal about it, maybe they'll recognise it for the glimmering hate-
|'''[[Zero Punctuation|Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]'''}}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* A rare fictional example: In ''[[
* Lynne Cheney (wife of Dick) wrote a novel in 1981 called ''Sisters'', featuring sexual content and lesbianism -- her attempts to prevent a 2006 reprint actually helped publicize it.
* [[McDonald's]] sued a small activist group over a flier being passed out at one of its restaurants, that alleged certain wrongdoings by the fast food chain. If left alone only a couple hundred people may have seen it, but the trial ended up taking over a decade and got [[wikipedia:McLibel|international media attention]]. After spending millions on lawyers, [[McDonald's]] was awarded [[Pyrrhic Victory|£60,000]] in damage from the activists. Of course, it could be argued that the value of dissuading others from attempting libel was more important to them than the costs of the single trial.
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* A minor example from '''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the author of the worst poetry in the universe is named in the original radio show as "Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, Essex" - a former schoolmate of [[Douglas Adams]], who wrote deliberately terrible poetry and who respectfully asked that his name and location be removed from the book adaptations. Thus people now ask why the name changed from Paul to a 'Paula' in Sussex in subsequent versions and discover the story of where Adams got the idea from.
* President [[Donald Trump]]'s reaction to ''[[w:Fire and Fury|Fire and Fury]]'', a derogatory tell-all written by [[w:Michael Wolff (journalist)|Michael Wolff]], could well serve as a critic's lesson on how ''not'' to dissuade someone from reading a book. After passages of the book were leaked, Trump launched an explosive rant on Twitter condemning the book, while his wife, daughter, and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders condemned it publicly. Trump even sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher threatening a lawsuit if it was released, even as pre-sales on Amazon were reaching record numbers. As a result, the publisher actually released it four days early to meet demands, and it shot to the heights of the bestseller lists in a matter of hours. Many major booksellers reported lines outside their stores not seen since they had new ''[[Harry Potter]]'' releases, selling out stock in two minutes.
** Then he did it again two years later, threatening to sue his own niece for writing (not publishing, simply writing) ''[[w:Too Much and Never Enough|Too Much and Never Enough]]''. The threatened lawsuit resulted in the book gaining not just national media coverage but also media coverage in Canada, including an in-depth interview with the author on ''[[As It Happens]]''. As a result of this publicity, the book was released 28 days early and set a record at
** Trump also made a similar rant after [[w:The Lincoln Project|The Lincoln Project]] (a Republican organization opposing President Trump and committed to preventing his reelection) aired their first campaign ad. Few had even heard of the Lincoln Project, a small organization on a meager budget, until then, but such attention changed that quickly, gaining them recognition nation-wide and leading to more and more advertisements.
* In November 2021, Twitter users @IAmGeorgiaFrost, @hollywstars and @Richard_Energy_ took a photo of the three holding up protest signs in front of the Edinburgh house of ''Harry Potter'' author [[J. K. Rowling]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20211123184805/https://twitter.com/AnxietySugar_/status/1463206139835920386 The now-deleted tweet] would lead to Rowling claiming that [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59372838 the trans activists "doxxed" and "threatened" her] by posting her address online, and the deactivation of those accounts due to the subsequent harassment they received - which, as usual, could only ever draw attention to where the author lives and cast aspersions on those claims.
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