In honor of Elliot pushing this thread to reach 500 posts and single-handedly bringing the term "consent accident" into the public consciousness through his personal jihad, I did a bit of Googling to offer this fun fact for the day: there's a four-character expression in Chinese, "
欲蓋彌彰" (yù gài mí zhāng), that more or less means the same thing as "Streisand effect". Roughly translates to "wishing to cover up [the truth], one exposes it all the more". It apparently dates back to the
Zuo Zhuan, composed around the fourth century BC.
Should have paid more attention to your ancestors, Elliot!
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