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Re:An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I T... by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @04:25AM (#8035344)
> 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.

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Re:An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I T... by hadoukenio on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @05:24AM (#8035473)
It's called the "Chilling Effect":

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
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Re:An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I T... by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @05:40AM (#8035516)
Self-censorship is also called "self-censorship". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sensorship
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