COMMENTARY: The DOL ESG Rule: A Chilling Effect on ESG, but a Rollback Is Likely

What is surprising in Virginia Woolf’s essays is the scale and the audacity of her intellectual searches – in the time of increased repressive censorship and growing totalitarianisms, she approached the themes of freedom which have remained controversial ever since. The article presents the essayistic nature as a strategy applied by Woolf in her personal essays to avoid censorship, and intentionally expand the limits of freedoms important to her. The author offers an outline of the mechanism of repressive censorship and the chilling effect it worked in the interwar United Kingdom based on the examples of suspensions of outstanding modernist works and show-trials of writers. She presents three areas of study of freedom in Woolf’s essays: women’s emancipation, tolerance towards non-heteronormative persons, and pacifism, as well as the areas of private and public (self-)censorship which existed therein.

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Chilling effect im Schweizer Medienkontext

medialex ◽

10.52480/ml.20.40 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Schweizer

Keyword(s):

Chilling Effect

Der Autor untersucht, ausgehend von zwei Schweizer Fallbeispielen, das Strassburger Verständnis des Chilling effect im Kontext der Medien. Dabei zeigt er dessen doppelte Bedeutung als Zulässigkeitsvoraussetzung sowie als wichtiger Aspekt bei der materiellen Beurteilung auf. Strafrechtlich begründete Massnahmen gegen Medien(schaffende), insbesondere die Aufhebung des Quellenschutzes, öffnen regelmässig den Weg für eine Beschwerde beim EGMR. Dasselbe gilt für zivil- und öffentlich-rechtliche begründete Massnahmen, die mit Schadenersatz oder vergleichbar handfesten Nachteilen für Medien(schaffende) verbunden sind. Unklar ist die Ausgangslage bei Feststellungsurteilen, wie sie im Rahmen der Schweizer Programmaufsicht regelmässig ergehen. Gemäss einem neueren Urteil sind qualifizierende Umstände erforderlich, damit sich ein hinreichend konkreter Chilling effect entfaltet.

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Reception of chilling effect by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

10.20935/al654 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Piotr Chybalski

Keyword(s):

Chilling Effect ◽

Constitutional Tribunal

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Savings Clauses and the “Chilling Effect”

Managing Institutional Complexity ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262015912.003.0004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 87-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Mark Axelrod

Keyword(s):

Chilling Effect

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Veillance

Biometrics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0983-7.ch066 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1575-1590

Author(s):

Steve Mann

Keyword(s):

Conflict Of Interest ◽

Wearable Computing ◽

Chilling Effect ◽

Surveillance Cameras ◽

Wearable Cameras ◽

Police Surveillance

This chapter builds upon the concept of Uberveillance introduced in the seminal research of M. G. Michael and Katina Michael in 2006. It begins with an overview of sousveillance (underwatching) technologies and examines the “We're watching you but you can't watch us” hypocrisy associated with the rise of surveillance (overwatching). Surveillance cameras are often installed in places that have “NO CAMERAS” and “NO CELLPHONES IN STORE, PLEASE!” signage. The author considers the chilling effect of this veillance hypocrisy on LifeGlogging, wearable computing, “Sixth Sense,” AR Glass, and the Digital Eye Glass vision aid. If surveillance gives rise to hypocrisy, then to what does its inverse, sousveillance (wearable cameras, AR Glass, etc.), give rise? The opposite (antonym) of hypocrisy is integrity. How might we resolve the conflict-of-interest that arises in situations where, for example, police surveillance cameras capture the only record of wrongdoing by the police? Is sousveillance the answer or will centralized dataveillance merely turn sousveillance into a corruptible uberveillance authority?

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13. Defamation

Tort Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198768807.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jenny Steele

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

European Convention ◽

England And Wales ◽

Chilling Effect ◽

Competing Interest ◽

The Relationship ◽

Academic Debate

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter deals with the actions in defamation that protect reputation, paying particular attention to the relationship between the protected interest in reputation and the competing interest in freedom of expression. It first considers relevant provisions in the Defamation Act 2013, including the ‘serious harm’ criterion, before turning to the terms of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to freedom of expression, with emphasis on the so-called chilling effect. It also discusses libel and slander as well as malicious falsehood, elements of a claim in defamation, defences available to the accused, and the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales to hear defamation claims. The chapter concludes by looking at parties who cannot sue in defamation.

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