Chilling Effects Announces New Name and International Partnerships

I find this change rather disappointing. "Chilling Effects" had a memorable name and purpose. As the article says, "These connotations are far too limiting for a project that operates as a neutral third party"; it's disappointing to see them becoming a "neutral third party" that wants to avoid such "connotations".

<p><pre><code> &gt; Occasionally, we’ve found our name can be even more confusing, &gt; leading to people to think that we only have notices that have in &gt; fact had a “chilling effect” on conduct or speech. </code></pre> It&#x27;d be interesting if they continued to keep the Chilling Effects name around where its purpose is to condense and highlight particularly egregious notices from the Lumen database which have a chilling effect on conduct or speech. A &quot;worst of&quot; list if you will.

Out of unrelated curiosity, what is stopping someone from using this database for nefarious reasons?<p>I checked a few links for a <i>Game of Thrones</i> search. All were in working order. Seems like this database could be a prime vetted source for getting hard to find torrents&#x2F;streams&#x2F;music.<p>The RSS feed would make it easy to stay updated on new content.

&gt; Sometimes, it’s simply an unfamiliar phrase, or doesn’t translate well, which means it can be hard for people encountering us for the first time to know what the project is about.<p>Instead, we&#x27;ll use a name that guarantees people won&#x27;t know what the project is about, no matter where they&#x27;re from!

When I first read the title I thought the new name was &quot;International Partnerships&quot;, which I found odd.<p>The new name is actually &quot;Lumen&quot;.