#selfcensorship — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #selfcensorship, aggregated by home.social.
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"The U.S. federal grant terminations of 2025 have had a chilling effect on American science. Grantees whose awards have been renegotiated under threat of termination must now determine how the revised terms constrain the language they use when reporting their findings in peer-reviewed publications."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560326001118"The post-Lysenko experience suggests that even if formal restrictions can be imposed and rescinded rapidly, the damage to human capital, training pipelines, and institutional trust may outlive the political conditions that produced them."
h/t @lschiff
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #SelfCensorship #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Self‑censorship, more stress, tougher recruiting – we asked US researchers how the #Trump administration’s science policies have affected them."
https://theconversation.com/self-censorship-more-stress-tougher-recruiting-we-asked-us-researchers-how-the-trump-administrations-science-policies-have-affected-them-280968#Censorship #DefendResearch #SelfCensorship #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Reduce China-style self-censorship by participants at your meetings, by including agreements at the start
#meetings #EventDesign #agreements #covenants #SelfCensorship #eventprofs
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"AI surveillance raises a range of public policy challenges: technical biases, unauditable systems, and inflexible automated law and social rule enforcement that can promote discrimination and undermine transparency, accountability and the rule of law. But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects.
In a new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, Jon Penney explains how surveillance, technology and power can be weaponized to influence behavior at scale. Surveillance, personalization, uncertainty and authority are all key mechanisms to increase the scale and impact of chilling effects. They cause people to self-censor their words and actions, to become more conformist and compliant and thus easier to manage and control. And the effects are additive: the more mechanisms employed, and the more powerful the form, the greater the chill.
Computerization has long allowed data collectors to track our locations, collect lists of whom we communicate with, and monitor our spending habits – unless we use cash. What’s new is an unprecedented fusion of each of these mechanisms, persistent and unrelenting. AI brings an analytical ability to spy on the contents of our communications, and to answer sophisticated questions about our whereabouts and activities: actions that previously required human analysts are now automated. The result will be a kind of supercharged societal level of chilling effects where fear, self-censorship and groupthink reign, and dissent, creativity and innovation become increasingly rare."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy
#AI #Surveillance #ChillingEffects #SelfCensorship #PoliceState
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We judge ourselves far too much and too often self-censor because we think we can't stand up to the yardstick of social validation.
Check out my weekday daily #blog and read more in my post: Unworthy Comparisons
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A quotation from Salman Rushdie
The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will not be determined by his talent, but by fear. If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York CityMore about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #pen #art #artist #censorship #creation #creativity #fear #freedom #selfcensorship #subjectmatter #worry #writer #writing
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We judge ourselves far too much and too often self-censor because we think we can't stand up to the yardstick of social validation.
Check out my weekday daily #blog and read more in my post: Unworthy Comparisons
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Never too late: I have had a Wikipedia account for 16 years and only made my first edit yesterday.
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Malagasy artist Dalvis self-censors his dumb, cliche, dance song after an online backlash from people claiming to represent Islam.
#SelfCensorship #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Music #HalfHeartedFanatic
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Here's the self-censored song, salvaged by another YouTube account. Give it a like, even if you dislike it as much as I do.
HT YT @modrientsilangouy779
#SelfCensorship #Africa #Madagascar #Antananarivo #Malagasy #Music #HalfHeartedFanatic
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If you need some overview on how censorship is conducted or how it can be measured, here's our comprehensive paper on it:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404825004213?via%3Dihub
We also summarized datasets and measurement platforms as well as selected human aspects.#censorship #internetcensorship #censorshipcircumvention #freedomofspeech #infosec #cybersecurity #networks #internet #tcpip #selfcensorship #Tor #I2P #covertchannels #steganography #security #accessibility #gfw #china #vpn #ooni #gfwatch #censoredplanet #gfweb
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Reduce China-style self-censorship by participants at your meetings, by including agreements at the start
#meetings #EventDesign #agreements #covenants #SelfCensorship #eventprofs
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University of Exeter: Legal reforms to stop abusive SLAPPs fail to stop chilling effect of the powerful, study warns . “Measures in the USA, UK and the EU to stop strategic lawsuits against public participation do not address the deep-seated inadequacies in the law which have a chilling effect on journalists and whistleblowers, the research says.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/university-of-exeter-legal-reforms-to-stop-abusive-slapps-fail-to-stop-chilling-effect-of-the-powerful-study-warns/ -
"Chilling effects can be subtle, but today they are everywhere. And it’s not just students who are chilled by Trump administration threats.
Professors are censoring themselves in lectures and rewriting syllabuses. Researchers are stripping grant applications of words that might attract federal scrutiny, or abandoning the topics entirely. Media outlets are modifying their news coverage to avoid Trump lawsuits or sanctions.
Law enforcement and regulatory agencies are refusing to investigate Trump-aligned actors inside or outside government, and major national law firms are declining cases challenging Trump administration policies.
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books and other progressive subjects. Many in targeted immigrant communities are afraid to leave home to go to work or school.
In most cases, these people and institutions are not being specifically targeted or threatened by Trump. But they are afraid, and their fear is doing the administration’s work for it. They stay silent, avoid attention and confrontation, and look the other way. In other cases, they change their speech and behavior to accommodate or conform to the administration’s worldview.
Of course, there are counterexamples, such as the winter protests in Minneapolis in response to brutality by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the recent “No Kings” rallies. But even here, the broader but less visible trend—chilling effects—is evident.
For instance, in recent reporting on the latest No Kings rallies, many media outlets observed that students were noticeably missing, despite the Trump administration’s unpopularity among younger Americans."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/chilling-effects.html
#ChillingEffects #USA #Trump #SelfCensorship #Democracy #Authoritarianism
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Reduce China-style self-censorship by participants at your meetings, by including agreements at the start
#meetings #EventDesign #agreements #covenants #SelfCensorship #eventprofs
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #belief #believeinyourself #confidence #creativity #ego #genius #humility #idea #opinion #originality #pride #selfappreciation #selfapproval #selfbetrayal #selfcensorship #selfconfidence #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdefeating #selfdeprecating #selfeffacing #selfesteem #selfjudgment #selfquestioning #selfreproach #selfsabotage #selftrust #spontaneity #trustyourself
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The historian #GarryWills, in an essay on Phillip Knightley’s 1975 book about wartime journalism, “The First Casualty,” wrote, “A #liberaldemocracy submits to #propaganda more readily than a #totalitarian state. #Self‐censorship is always more effective than #bureaucratic #censorship.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mhnsb4snj22b -
China’s home‑grown LLM Qwen suddenly edits its own reply when asked about the nation’s global image. The incident shines a light on AI censorship, political sensitivity, and the ethical tightrope of self‑censoring models. What does this mean for future chatbot development? #AICensorship #Qwen #SelfCensorship #AIethics
🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/chinese-chatbot-qwen-selfcensors-answer-chinas-international
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[en] Reconstructing Free Expression
"The Trump administration is engaged in a full-scale assault on First Amendment rights and values, violating laws and using threats to create a climate of fear and self-censorship. Its attacks—often successful—have exposed significant, longstanding weaknesses in the laws, institutions, and norms that underwrite public discourse."
"This initiative will encompass a series of closed convenings with scholars and advocates to generate ideas for legal, institutional, and other reforms ..."
https://knightcolumbia.org/research/reconstructing-free-expression
#freeexpression #firstamendment #usa #selfcensorship #trumpadministration #knightcolumbia #columbia #cornell #universitychicago
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A quotation from Henry Commager
The point is that when a nation silences criticism and dissent, it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors. The process of silencing need not be as savage as in Nazi Germany or in South Africa today; it is enough that an atmosphere be created where men prefer silence to protest. As has been observed of book-burning, it is not necessary to burn books, it is enough to discourage men from writing them.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #selfcorrection #censorship #criticism #dissent #error #oppression #protest #selfcensorship #silencing
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A quotation from George Orwell
Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 1 “England Your England,” sec. 2, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81601/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism @fear #laughter #marching #military #mockery #parade #selfcensorship
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The #BBCnews Editor has sent this to #BBC journalists.
#Kidnapping must NOT be called #kidnapping, in case #Trump is offended. #SelfCensorship
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The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out—or self-censor
Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of healthy #democracies and hence a primary target for aspiring #authoritarians , who typically try to squash #dissent. There is a point where the threat from authorities is sufficiently severe that a population will self-censor rather than risk punishment.
#censorship #authoritarianism #authoritarian #freespeech #selfcensorship
