[lazide]

My comment was less about rules lawyering, and more about the meaning - I would think?

The Council of Nicea - for one example - definitely did NOT make all the alternatives more popular/less dead, right?

Sometimes the streisand effect is real and permanent, sometimes it’s just temporary and the bans/stamping out/destruction work. And unless we’re buried under a mountain of ‘all the others’ which I don’t see, there is a whole lot of it which just goes away through the passage of time because of those effects. Which looks to me like 100x’ish, due to the ‘reverse pyramid’ effect of history.

Or are you making another point i’m missing?

[bryanrasmussen]

OK fair enough I guess, although not sure about how well the bans, stamping out, destruction works given distributed electronic information and mass printing technologies, most of the obvious examples of written content being destroyed come from before the printing press being widely distributed.

Most recent destroyed content is more likely to be prints of films, in other words things that had a higher cost of reproduction than written content.

[lazide]

Me neither - technology does change the game. Hopefully we won’t find out right away?