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		SideburnsOfDoom on July 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Beca... > accusations, surveillance, and keeping files on innocent people ... slowly creates some kind of "let's just do nothing to make sure they don't notice me and put me on the list" atmosphere This is absolutely right. Censorship is internalised into self-censorship.

hadoukenio on July 15, 2014 [–]

It's called the "Chilling Effect":

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

SideburnsOfDoom on July 15, 2014 | [–]

Self-censorship is also called "self-censorship". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sensorship

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