gag rule
Mandated legislative silence
A gag rule is a regulation that restricts or prohibits discussion of a particular topic.
The term originated in the U.S.
Congress, where rules from 1836 to 1844 automatically tabled antislavery petitions without debate.
Today it applies to any formal prohibition on speech: The company's gag rule prevents employees from discussing salaries.
Forcible prevention or concealment
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- censorOne who suppresses content
- redactConceal text for secrecy
- media blackoutSuppression of press coverage
information control · muzzle · stifle · hush · voiceless · prior restraint · whistleblower · chilling effect
Delaying tactic through speech
- clotureProcedure ending legislative discussion
- parliamentary procedureRules governing deliberative assemblies
- congressionalOf a legislature
- floor debateLegislative chamber argumentation
antebellum · antislavery · quorum · point of order · speaking time · deliberation
Court-ordered behavioral requirement
- court orderBinding judicial directive
- non-disclosureMandated secrecy obligation
- judicial restraintCourts avoiding activist rulings
- protective orderCourt mandate forbidding contact
publication ban · contempt of court · litigation · mandate · statute · binding agreement · legal remedy
suppression
Forcible prevention or concealment
media blackout · information control · muzzle · stifle · hush · voiceless · prior restraint · whistleblower · chilling effect · self-censorship
filibuster
Delaying tactic through speech
- clotureProcedure ending legislative discussion
- parliamentary procedureRules governing deliberative assemblies
- congressionalOf a legislature
floor debate · antebellum · antislavery · quorum · point of order · speaking time · deliberation
injunction
Court-ordered behavioral requirement
- court orderBinding judicial directive
- non-disclosureMandated secrecy obligation
- judicial restraintCourts avoiding activist rulings
protective order · publication ban · contempt of court · litigation · mandate · statute · binding agreement · legal remedy
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Fugitive Slave Act
- Speech Limitsdefamation, libel, slander, obscenity, incitement
- Abolitionismabolitionists, abolitionist movement, anti-slavery, antislavery, abolitionism
- Reproduction Policynatalism, pronatalism, family planning, population control, birth rate
gag rulefree speech
Protected verbal liberty
freedom of expression · open debate · open floor · open forum · freedom of the press
gag rulesunshine law
Statute requiring government transparency
freedom of information · whistleblower protection · public access · FOIA
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