# How did the magician "move Diamondhead"?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-magician-move-diamondhead/63230
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 25, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-magician-move-diamondhead/63230 "2001-04-25T03:08:49Z")
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### Author: ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-magician-move-diamondhead/63230/15 "2025-09-08T21:50:39Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> > [@HeyHomie](#):
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> > He threatened to sue, and there was much discussion about the ethics of revealing information traditionally reserved for trained professionals, etc. It was a whole thing. Quite the board controversy.
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> I think I read some of those posts years ago. Really shameful moment for the forum, cowtowing to that kind of idiotic censorship.

Read through to the end, about here:

> [@Magic Tricks and Intellectual Property](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magic-tricks-and-intellectual-property/254775/111):
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> As am I. wink[Tuba reopened the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=266080). I appreciate the input from the dopers, particuarly the lawyer dopers; it played a large part in helping us decide to reopen the thread. OK, lawyer dopers–there are no circumstances in which you cannot discuss in your own words the secret to any trick, right? Just to make sure I’m clear on this.

It took some discussion, but the mods came to the correct conclusion–that there is no basis to restrict posters writing their own explanations of magic tricks.

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