chilling effect

Noun

Meaning

(law) A discouraging effect, especially on certain forms of officially legal speech.

Synonym of windchill.

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Examples

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce. John Collison

It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news. Safak Pavey

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