Before 2013, the U.S. government was running many global surveillance programs in the total ignorance of the people through its biggest security agency, the National Security Agency (NSA). In June 2013, an American whistleblower, Edward Snowden, exposed the truth about the illegal surveillance programs to the eyes of the world by leaking classified information in the media. The revelation of classified details from United States government surveillance programs prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy. Some people were interested in the existence of the a chilling effect subsequent to the revelations, but most of them agreed that no such effect exists. However, Dr. Jon Penney provided evidence of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online government surveillance. Indeed, he showed that traffic to Wikipedia articles on topics that raise privacy concerns for Wikipedia users decreased. Wikipedia can be seen as a good sample of the population, but...