Angie Langley set up a blog entitled MyCongressmanIsNuts.com, in parody to Grayson’s site, CongressmanWithGuts.com.  Within the content of her blog Langley falsely claimed she was a constituent of Grayson’s district, amongst other negative propaganda against the politician.

In response to Langley’s site, Grayson sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder stating that she is misrepresenting herself as Grayson’s constituent, and should be fined and jailed for 5 years!

Not only did Grayson turn a non-issue into a major issue, but he also brought Langley’s campaign to the public eye.  Major news networks have posted articles on this story, and Langley has had some time in front of the camera herself.

Seems like the only person benefiting from Grayson’s request for imprisonment is Langley.  It’s certainly not Grayson.

Congressman Lives up to Reputation is a post from: The Streisand Effect

The Boston Herald has written an article today talking about how bad this new online dating service is.  It matches up married men and women for “an affair to remember”.  I agree that the site is bad taste, but I think the Herald is a bit confused.

As part of their article, they:

• Explain how the site works.
• Provide multiple advertising quips from the site
• Providie the site URL a few times
• Show a full-color ad for the site

AshleyMadison.com is really bad, so don’t tell anyone about AshleyMadison.com is a post from: The Streisand Effect

To try to fight back against the site, police are using the media to vent.  However, most people hadn’t heard of the site until the police started complaining about it, and now it’s all over the news.  To add to the popularity of the site, GoDaddy recently disabled their account, leading to even more media attention.  Before it was shut down, the site had received 80,000 pageviews that day, and around 400,000 the day before.  How many of those were a direct result of the police outcry?

The site is back up and running now, though it’s responding pretty slowly due to the huge influx of new users…

Police upset with RateMyCop.com, so they tell the media all about it is a post from: The Streisand Effect

Now comes word that MobiTV is wisely giving up this fight.   The president of MobiTV spoke with Howard Chui (the “Howard” in HowardForums) and said they’d just be friends.  The full information can be found on HowardForums.

The brief MobiTV vs. HowardForums fight comes to a peaceful ending is a post from: The Streisand Effect

I think Howard will find a lot of people on his side.  While I’m quite sure he’ll win the battle, I hope it doesn’t cost him too much in unnecessary legal fees.

HowardForums isn’t going down without a fight is a post from: The Streisand Effect

Someone over at HowardForums noticed this and posted the URL of the feed.  MobiTV has responded; not by securing the feed, but by threatening to take down HowardForums.  They’ve contacted his web host and they’ve threatened to contact the registrar.

Mike Masnick, as always, has summed it up best:

There is no hacking going on. There is no encryption broken. There is nothing illicit whatsoever. The feed is a public URL. However, it appears that MobiTV thinks that because it did not properly secure its own feeds and left it on a public URL that somehow Howard Forums has broken the law.

MobiTV mad that their public streaming URL was discovered is a post from: The Streisand Effect

A customer of theirs had a bad experience and created a site to express his displeasure. The Wall Street Journal, who had already written about the case before, decided to dig a little deeper. They found all kinds of things out and made Traffic Power look even worse.

As TechDirt put it, “congratulations to Traffic Power for figuring out how to use the Streisand Effect to magically turn one random blog’s negative comments into a complete negative article in the Wall Street Journal.”

Traffic Power is a post from: The Streisand Effect