Chilling Effects

"The chilling effects of surveillance, big data, weaponized law, online abuse, and new forms of AI-driven repression are a growing threat to freedom and democracy. This book offers a new theory of chilling effects to better understand the dangers they pose and how to best respond"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction; Part I. Conventional Chilling Effects Theories and their Limits: 1. Law's Flawed Theory and its McCarthy Era Origins; 2. Privacy's Useful but Limited Theory; Part II. A New Understanding: 3. Social Chilling Effects; 4. A Conformity Theory of Chilling Effects; 5. A Taxonomy of Chilling Effects; 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.