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Book contents
- Chilling Effects
- Praise for Chilling Effects
- Chilling Effects
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Conventional Chilling Effects Theories and Their Limits
- Part II A New Understanding
- Part III Implications
- 6 The Dangers of Chilling Effects
- 7 What Chilling Effects Theory Is for
- 8 A Framework for Hard Cases
- 9 Transforming Chilling Effects Doctrine
- 10 The Future of Chilling Effects and How to Stop It
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
6 - The Dangers of Chilling Effects
from Part III - Implications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2025
Book contents
- Chilling Effects
- Praise for Chilling Effects
- Chilling Effects
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Conventional Chilling Effects Theories and Their Limits
- Part II A New Understanding
- Part III Implications
- 6 The Dangers of Chilling Effects
- 7 What Chilling Effects Theory Is for
- 8 A Framework for Hard Cases
- 9 Transforming Chilling Effects Doctrine
- 10 The Future of Chilling Effects and How to Stop It
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 uses this new understanding of chilling effects to elaborate the dangers of chilling effects both on an individual level and societal scale. The chapter elaborates the two dimensions of chilling effects – repressive and productive. The former speaks to how chilling effects today can repress speech and other rights on a mass scale; the latter speaks to how chilling effects are conforming effects, and thus produce conforming and compliant behavior on a societal scale, which has critical implications for individual identity, development, autonomy, and equality, but is also corrosive to democracy and democratic societies.
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- Chilling EffectsRepression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, pp. 93 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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