Fear, Risk and the First Amendment

Schauer, F. (1978). Fear, Risk and the First Amendment: Unraveling the Chilling Effect. Boston University Law Review.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1978

Pages cited

685-732

Link

https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/879/

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Domain-specific

• Watchdog Journalism
  • The chilling-effect logic runs accordingly: a credible threat of any of these outcomes suppresses watchdog activity before any specific story is killed, because journalists and editors anticipate the cost and either avoid the beat or self-censor the inquiry

Mechanisms

• Content Moderation Action Threshold
  • Its failure mode is that the harm map can quietly under-count the false-positive side: over-removal is diffuse and often invisible (users rarely learn why their reach fell), producing a chilling effect

    This sourceAnalyzes the chilling effect as deterrence of lawful or protected expression caused by fear, risk, and uncertainty about possible sanctions.

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