MEDIUMVulnerability
Global

Chilling Effects

·Source: Schneier on Security

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Executive Summary

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency , but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration , college campus protests nationwide have gone silent . And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent . This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has i

Analysis

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency , but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration , college campus protests nationwide have gone silent . And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent . This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits , arrests , deportations and expulsions . Reports cite a range of complicated factors for the restraint, from apathy to technology-induced incapacity. But as ...
Source Attribution

Originally published by Schneier on Security on May 29, 2026.

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