Chilling Speech
Katherine Gelber · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2016
This chapter examines whether, and how, counter-terrorism policies in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia are having a chilling effect on freedom of speech. It examines both explicit chilling effects such as gag orders that apply to counter terrorism investigations in the United States and Australia, and the widespread mass surveillance that, since the Snowden revelations in 2013, it is now known all three governments are undertaking. It argues that to the extent that counter-terrorism policies are infringing on freedom of speech, and in the context of the argument in the other chapters of this book, it is highly likely these policies are creating an undesirable chilling effect that reaches well beyond particular communities that feel targeted by national security authorities and policies.