Dal, Ayşenur2025-02-272025-02-272024-05https://hdl.handle.net/11693/116936In authoritarian settings, dealing with privacy threats involving vertical (i.e., institutional) and horizontal (i.e., social) intrusions is an essential element of the day- to-day negotiation of online activism risks. Accordingly, this study investigates the role that horizontal privacy regulation efforts play in citizens' decision-making about online political expressions (OPE) on controversial topics under digital repression. Using a web-based survey of Internet users (N = 992) conducted in 2018, the findings reveal that, while horizontal privacy regulation significantly predicts a weaker intention to engage in OPE about governmental corruption in Russia, this negative effect is amplified by how much one cares about others' judgments about their position on corruption.EnglishCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Deed (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Privacy regulationHorizontal privacyOnline political expressionSelf-disclosure RussiaArticle1932-8036