Jawboning

Enough jawboning! Why can't politicians just be honest?

Or the merely verbal pressure of jawbonings by prominent people may try to silence a certain point of view.

It's shocking to Douek, because she is a close-watcher of what's known as "jawboning," when regulators or government officials pressure private actors, like a social media company or broadcast network, to stifle speech. The libertarian Cato Institute calls the practice "censorship by proxy."