Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?13 points by Webstir 32 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 commentsGiven the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? help I think as I've gotten older, the fear of expressing myself has increasingly turned into a sense of duty to do it anyway. The more people feel pressured into silence, the more important it seems not to be. Absolutely XXXXXXX XX XXXXX XXXX because I XXX XX XXXXXXX XX XX XXXXXX even if the state XXXX XXX XXXXXXXXX XXX XX XXXXX XXXXXXXX.(This joke would be funnier if HN allowed unicode Full Block characters) Absolutely. People have already gotten in trouble with US immigration just for posting negative opinions on social media, or simply speech that the government doesn't like (see all the recent pro-Palestine protestors whose visas were cancelled). The state department/homeland/etc. can choose or not choose to let people in based on just about any criteria they want. If they find out I said something critical of the government, I could either be denied entry, or kicked out, and both have already been happening to people in the last year and a half.Even if what they're doing isn't legal, that doesn't stop them from potentially ruining your life in the process, maybe even getting away with it. The internet was also heavily surveilled 5 years ago, not much different from how it is today.Are you referring to anything in particular? A few years ago, you would've been banned for questioning the results of the U.S. election. And this was when "progressives" were in charge.If anything, you're more free to "express yourself" now. i feel the same way it was never the surveillance but the political mob from the left censoring and gatekeeping words to describe objects or a person.now that trump is president and X is a thing, i do feel much more free to express myself without worries