reprisals

The point is that an assassination market is facilitating murder, which is criminal and immoral and also destabilizing; you're far more likely to get a spiral of ill-targeted reprisals.

If every media outlet shows the uncensored image there isn't a single target for violent reprisals.

The never ending back-and-forth, fear of reprisals from higher up for misplaced chalkmarks or stamps and so on was quite similar.

When a case of police brutality breaks out, tell the police to stay of the hood from now on or face reprisals.

What puzzles me is why we hardly ever hear of military or even professional reprisals against these companies.

Finally, don't let them re-focus on the inevitable violent reprisals that will soon come.

I can't say too much because of fear of lawsuits or other reprisals but they were really, really bad.

Official reprisals included demotion (4%), reprimand (11%), and referral to a psychiatrist (9%).

Don't they expect reprisals if not from our government, then github itself?

Results indicated that there were severe professional reprisals if the nurse reported misconduct, but there were few professional consequences if the nurse remained silent.

There you could, indeed, face harsh reprisals, ranging all the way up to martyrdom, for refusing to spy on your fellow citizens.

There's always the implicit thread of strong reprisals (e.g.

But the people just couldn’t understand them.” A man named Khalil, who asked not to use his last name for fear of reprisals, said he had witnessed the shooting of civilians who were waving white flags while they tried to escape the city.

Although it's obvious who benefits, it's just deniable enough that they have avoided international censure; today nobody can reasonably think "China wouldn't do that because they fear reprisals," since they just did it; which helps China maintain a credible threat to businesses.

Anti-Islam and anti-Muslim commentary (and cartoons) are a dime a dozen in western media outlets; the taboo that is at least as strong, if not more so, are anti-Jewish images and words." This would suggest that there is plenty of commentary that does not result in reprisals.

The editor of the Observer(?) and WaPo were duking it out because the editor of the Observer admitted that he and his staff were frankly terrified of reprisals, and that it was important to admit that publicly, especially if a paper makes the decision not to republish, and that appealing to "sensitivity" as a reason for not republishing the cartoons was a cop-out.