gradualIs the Streisand Effect dead?
That’s not what the Streisand Effect is. It’s when some one someone announces they don’t want you to know something that drives people to know it anyway.
Is it really an ‘announcement’, or just the act of trying to cover it up in the first place?
The result of trying to suppress information which has the opposite effect of spreading the information further.
I.E. A celebrity sees a picture of themselves on the internet that they don’t like. Instead of ignoring it, they actively try to suppress it which only serves to bring more attention to it, thus exposing it to far more people than would have seen it had it been ignored.
So an announcement is irrelevant.
Yeah, an announcement isn’t really part of it. The attempt to suppress information being what ends up amplifying it is the crux of it.
I don't think so. Wikipedia has a long list with many examples. A lot of them being relatively recent.
No. See the recent example of Meta blocking Careless People from being publicised and the book’s subsequent position on the bestseller list for reference.