I was actually looking for that particular website : 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/ for details about how I messed up with my request.

You are a killer, that's exactly what I was looking for ! This particular website.

How ungrateful. That was not your original question.

Feels like this getting close to the XY problem:

https://xyproblem.info/

Thanks for sharing this. I have experienced this many times in my career, but I didn’t realize it had a name.

Perhaps 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…”

That 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...

I feel like either Mozilla or the EFF published a website on this about ten years ago.

Might be chilling effect indeed, thank you. I'm trying to find that website which was very visual and well designed...

You didn’t ask that

I didn't but somebody answered it anyway just below : https://www.socialcooling.com/

That's a form of self censorship indeed.

In France, IT consuling and outsourcing companies are promoting wage dumping. It is not common to be an independant SWE, so consulting companies have a better supply when they hire, thus lowering the wages.

Now, cuturally speaking, in Europe the cult of principles and values reigns whereas in USA it's the cult of god and money (which both work together, cf Harari's thesis).

Interesting topic demanding hours of debate.