-> There is legal precedent regarding chilling effects and government action.

Please provide citation, I'd like to know more

-> If you're not American you can't be expected to know that level of detail. If you are American, your highschool civics teacher was terrible.

Please be kind, or avoid discussing politics. There are other opinions than our own, and though we may disagree we need to respect each other, I hope all civics teachers would agree on that.

It is a pretty well covered topic.

You can get an overview here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect#:~:text=A%20....