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Chilling Effects

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Feed Name: Security Boulevard

Date Published: 2026-05-29

Date Updated: 2026-05-29

Author: Bruce Schneier

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This essay argues that the Trump administration is employing surveillance, legal pressure, personal threats, and abuse of power to create widespread "chilling effects" that cause self-censorship and disengagement among students, academics, journalists, and cultural institutions; it links these tactics to historical precedents, outlines mechanisms and societal impacts, and calls for legal, judicial, media, and civic responses to resist and reverse the trend.

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