Most chilling effects scholarship focuses on law's direct inhibition of speech. @penney.bsky.social new book asks a harder question: what about the indirect effects on conformity and power? We discuss on this week's Law Bytes podcast.
“Chilling effects” is a term people hear all the time: in court rulings, in debates over content moderation, in dealing with online harms, or in news coverage of surveillance and legal reforms. The…