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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by titzer on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:33AM (#23789395)
It's the chilling effect[1] of both mass, pervasive and targeted surveillance.

This has a specific legal definition which is complex and not going to be communicated in a hackernews comment, but if you want to dig deeper,

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

Pro tip: pretend like your free speech is out of favor with the current extremist government.

Oppose tyranny.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by darawk on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:26AM (#23789650)
That's exactly what i'm doing. I understand chilling effects. I don't see how reading public Twitter feeds cause them in a way we should be worried about.
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