Memphis police seek ID of critical bloggers

I can't believe the police are going after the guy. Thin skinned morons.

So they are going to out and harrass their critics. This is what a police state looks like. Besides that if the department is not doing anything wrong what are they worried about?

Streisand effect
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The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples are attempts to censor a photograph, a file, or even a whole website, especially by means of cease-and-desist letters. Instead of being suppressed, the information sometimes quickly receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks.<1><2> Mike Masnick said he jokingly coined the term in January 2005, “to describe {this} increasingly common phenomenon.”<3> The effect is related to John Gilmore's observation that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."<4>

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