by C. Douglas Golden, Western Journal:

Before Twitter locked the New York Post out of its account for a story regarding alleged emails from Hunter Biden’s computers, perhaps the company should have had a talk with Barbra Streisand.

It didn’t — and now, partially thanks to Twitter’s censorship, Google searches for “Joe Biden corruption” are exploding.

Some of you might know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, the singer and actress has lent her name to many things, almost all of which I don’t find interesting. An exception is the “Streisand effect.”

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In 2003, according to Mental Floss, Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman for $50 million because he published an aerial picture of her Malibu house online. Adelman wasn’t trying to invade Streisand’s privacy; his California Coastal Records Project was supposed to help scientists track beach erosion and contained over 12,000 pictures of the state’s coastline.

Before the lawsuit, the picture had been viewed six times; if you took away the two times Streisand’s lawyers viewed it, that made four times. After the lawsuit, it received millions of views. Ergo, the “Streisand effect” — an axiom of the internet age that if you try to suppress any piece of information, you’ll merely end up drawing more attention to it.

If you’ve even a passing interest in the curious business relationships Hunter Biden and what his father knew about them, you’re probably familiar with the saga of Twitter and the New York Post. Earlier this month, the paper published emails said to be from the hard drives of computers Hunter took in for repair and never claimed.

In one, an official from Burisma Holdings — a Ukrainian energy company which had Hunter Biden on its board despite the fact he’s known neither for his expertise in the energy field nor his experience in the corporate or political atmosphere of Eastern Europe — appeared to thank Hunter for introducing him to then-Vice President Biden.

In another, a possible deal with what was then China’s largest private energy firm was discussed along with talk about “remuneration” for Hunter Biden and others. The email included the cryptic phrase “10 held by H for the big guy?” A former business associate of Hunter Biden’s, Tony Bobulinski, later said “the big guy” in the email was Joe Biden.

Joe Biden’s campaign has never formally denied the emails were Hunter Biden’s; it merely claimed the whole thing is a disinformation campaign. The campaign did deny Biden officially met with the Burisma official, although it effectively conceded to Politico some kind of short encounter between the two may have taken place.

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Biden said last year that he has “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” and that remains the official line, even though the Post pieces seem to contradict that.

Twitter claimed the piece potentially contained hacked information — despite no evidence the data obtained from the hard drives was hacked in any way — and screen shots which showed the email addresses of the individuals involved. Thus, the company briefly embargoed users from sharing it, and also locked the New York Post out of its account.

While the social media giant eventually changed how it enforces its “Hack Materials” policy, it still said that the New York Post had to delete the story to restart posting. The Post could then tweet the story again, since it now met Twitter’s standards.

Essentially, what Twitter wanted the New York Post to do was admit it had done something wrong. The Post wasn’t willing to kowtow and the stalemate lingered for two weeks.

How did that end up for Twitter? While Google searches don’t necessarily correlate to information suppression, they also give us an idea of whether it’s working or not. What transpired in the days and weeks since the Post started reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails makes a good case for this being an example of the Streisand effect.

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Here’s a Google Trends snapshot of searches for “Joe Biden corruption”:

While searches for “Joe Biden Burisma” have had more peaks over the past year, Oct. 11-17 saw, by far, the highest number of people searching the term:

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