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UC Davis Sought To Scrub Pepper-Spray Posts

UC Davis paid outside consultants at least $175,000 to remove negative online posts stemming from a November 2011 incident in which campus police pepper-sprayed protesting students. One of the consultancies, Nevins & Associates, said in its proposal that its objective included “eradication of references to the pepper spray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor.”

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  1. Steve Baldwin from Didit, April 14, 2016 at 4:15 p.m.

    Let us now behold the full unfurling of the Streisand Effect!

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