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Ask HN: What's the name of this concept related to surveillance
I am looking for the name of a concept that explains how an individual who knows they are being monitored and controlled behaves differently on the internet. I believe the word "cold" is part of the concept's name and I discovered it through a well-designed web page that featured an infographic of an iceberg.
- throwaway8451 4y agoHas anyone asked ChatGPT already? Using ChatGPT to find the correct search terms for vaguely described concepts seems very powerful. Knowing the correct terms makes or breaks web searches in my experience.
- jjgreen 4y agoThat's usually "the Hawthorne effect" (which predates the internet), I don't know of a cold-related phrase for this though ...
- mikequinlan 4y agoChilling effect? https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/chilling-effect-overview https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/chilling-effect-overv...
- nilsbrev 4y agoThat could be it indeed, thank you. Now I'm trying to find that website which was very visual and well designed to illustrate consequences of chilling effect...
- daniel_reetz 4y agoI feel like either Mozilla or the EFF published a website on this about ten years ago.
- _Microft 4y agoIt seems tangentially related to "self-censorship" if that helps with your search? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship
- nilsbrev 4y agoThat's a form of self censorship indeed.
- ZeroGravitas 4y ago"Chilling effect" is a general term that seems about right, though isn't internet or censorship specific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect Another related term is "the panopticon", a prison designed so that you always felt like you were being watched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
- nilsbrev 4y agoMight be chilling effect indeed, thank you. I'm trying to find that website which was very visual and well designed...
- timetokillit 4y agoYou didn’t ask that
- nilsbrev 4y agoI didn't but somebody answered it anyway just below : https://www.socialcooling.com/ https://www.socialcooling.com/
- eternalban 4y agoAnd here is the report of their harmonious marriage: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444818801317 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444818801317
- michaelteter 4y agoI pasted your question verbatim into ChatGPT-4. " The concept you may be thinking of is the "chilling effect." It refers to the phenomenon where individuals are less likely to engage in certain behaviors, such as expressing themselves or accessing certain information, due to the fear of surveillance or other forms of monitoring. The term "chilling effect" is often used in the context of government surveillance or censorship, but it can also apply to other types of monitoring and control, such as corporate surveillance or online harassment. The reference to the iceberg in the infographic may have been used to illustrate the idea that only a small portion of the chilling effect is visible on the surface, while the majority of its impact remains hidden beneath the surface. "
- nilsbrev 4y agoWell I'm actually looking for the website which was very visual and well designed to illustrate consequences of this concept...
- Kiro 4y agoHow ungrateful. That was not your original question.
- messe 4y agoFeels like this getting close to the XY problem: https://xyproblem.info/ https://xyproblem.info/
- michaelteter 4y agoThanks for sharing this. I have experienced this many times in my career, but I didn’t realize it had a name.
- ntxvega 4y agoPerhaps OP has been ChatGPTing too much and was expecting an apologetic response: “I’m sorry that my answer didn’t meet your expectations. More information about chilling effect can be found at…”
- hprotagonist 4y agopanopticon? (it’s also a great metal album)
- csw-001 4y agoThis was my first thought - originally described a prison designed in a way that a central guard tower can see into all the cells. Even if prisoners aren’t actually being watched, the theory is they behavior better because they know they could be being watched at any given moment. Just happens to be this week’s 99% Invisible podcast is all about panopticon history!
- lachenmayer 4y agohttps://www.socialcooling.com/ https://www.socialcooling.com/
- animesh 4y agoAlso, https://www.mathwashing.com/ https://www.mathwashing.com/ as I just found out after reading socialcooling.com
- nilsbrev 4y agoYou are a killer, that's exactly what I was looking for ! This particular website.
- jareklupinski 4y agowas this whole post just SEO?
- lachenmayer 4y agoMaybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯? I have no affiliation to OP, feels like they just wanted to try out a human version of ChatGPT, strange as that may sound these days…
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- nilsbrev 4y agoI was actually looking for that particular website : https://www.socialcooling.com/ https://www.socialcooling.com/ not the name of the concept itself but "lachenmayer" has somehow read my mind. Hacker News is better than chatGPT, it gives you what you're looking for without asking the right question (properly). See https://xyproblem.info/ https://xyproblem.info/ for details about how I messed up with my request.
- howduzitwork 4y agoIt's also a form of behavioural modification.
- fd111 4y agoAs exhibited in?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) ;-)