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It sounds like you're basically talking about chilling effects, if you're looking for further arguments along these lines.
Edited to add: I don't mean to sound dismissive. I expect there's some use in reframing these effects in LW terms, and in coming up with non-standard generalizations. Just wanted to point out that your idea, or one very close to it, is widely discussed and recognized as important. (It's even occasionally accounted for in court decisions!)
Thanks for bringing it to my notice. See also this website, to which you can report any cease-and-desist notice you received from an organization for your online content.
When you want to change your own behavior I think it's very worthwhile to think about the fear that you feel instead of identifying as the object of the chilling effects that someone else produces.
I also think that "trivial fear" is going to be understand by a lot of people outside of lesswrong. A ten-year old might know what you mean when you speak about trivial fear but not know what chilling effects happen to be.
I think the LessWrong habit of making up local jargon for existing well-understood things is a bad idea and shouldn't be encouraged. Using gratuitously different local jargon cuts people off from existing bodies of knowledge without them knowing it.
BTW, everyone feel free to call me out for using jargon whenever you think the precision isn't worth the obscurity. I try not to do that but I often forget.