Cornell U. and the "Streisand Effect"

Cornell basking in “Streisand Effect” after Watters’ World shutdown

Student newspaper calls it an “Embarrassment to Cornell”
"On Monday night, October 26, 2015, The O’Reilly Factor ran a Watters’ World segment with student-on-the-street interviews.

"The highlight of the segment was that Cornell shut down Jesse Watters on air during student interviews.

"Here is the segment.

"I predicted that Cornell would experience the Streisand Effect, which is:

The Streisand effect is the 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 named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further public attention to it. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters to suppress numbers, files, and websites. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored across the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.

"And sure enough, that is what is happening. The incident has been reported in dozens of major outlets, not just in the conservative blogosphere.

"WaPo’s Erik Wemple, who unfortunately threw some cheap shots at Watters unrelated to the incident, did correctly diagnose the problem: " . . .