Jawbone.

"One day Sampson was walking alone/He looked down on the ground and he saw an old jawbone/He lifted up that jawbone and he swung it over his head/And when he got to moving ten thousand was dead" — Peter, Paul & Mary.

"Oh, Jawbone, when did you first go wrong? Oh, Jawbone, where is it you belong?" — The Band.

From "Moral Suasion" (Wikipedia):

"Jawboning"... is the use of authority to persuade various entities to act in certain ways, which is sometimes underpinned by the implicit threat of future government regulation. In the United States, during the Democratic administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, officials tried to deal with the mounting inflationary pressures by direct government influence or jawboning.... 

From an amicus brief in National Rifle Association v. Vullo, one of 2 free-speech cases up for oral argument in the Supreme Court today:

In the early 1960s, the term “jawboning” entered the political lexicon to describe a government official’s ability to accomplish a similar feat of political strength—in this case stifling the speech and other advocacy of groups with disfavored views—through the seemingly innocuous tool of public statements. Derek E. Bambauer, Against Jawboning, 100 Minn. L. Rev. 51, 57 (2015) (defining jawboning and noting the term’s biblical origin). While Samson’s prowess on the battlefield of Lehi was considerable, his supernatural strength pales in comparison to the modern regulatory state’s power to smite the speech, stories, and ideas of the political philistines with whom it disagrees.

In the case at hand, however, jawboning takes on a new and even more dangerous dimension. In this case, the government officials at issue are not merely hinting at potential regulation if the regulated parties fail to police themselves satisfactorily, they are, like the black-listers of the McCarthy Era, seeking to remove disfavored individuals and organizations from public commerce, thus removing them from public debate. This is akin to wielding the jawbone of an ass in the digital age, where words and statements in highly regulated industries—like insurance and finance—can have far-reaching consequences.

This type of government blacklisting, ostensibly in the service of protecting companies and their investors from the dangers of reputational risks, is an even more potent threat to First Amendment freedoms when the government—as here—creates the reputational risk on which it premises its action. The government disingenuously expands its power to protect against the threats that it creates. This is like an insurance company engaging in arson to highlight the need for its products.... 

As the NRA notes in its brief, former Governor Andrew Cuomo has stated that “firearms advocates ‘have no place in the state of New York’” Pet’r’s Merits Br. at 8. Other New York public officials have been more blatant. New York Attorney General Letitia James has called the NRA a “criminal enterprise” and a “terrorist organization.” Jon Campbell, NY AG Letitia James Called the NRA a ‘Terrorist Organization.’ Will It Hurt Her Case?, USA Today (Aug. 19, 2020). On her Facebook page, current New York Governor Kathy Hochul has claimed that “The NRA is breaking the law and threatening the lives of New Yorkers.” See Governor Kathy Hochul, Facebook (Aug. 6, 2018).... 

These public officials are free to speak their mind about the NRA insofar as they do not engage in libel or slander. But the state’s attempt to remove the NRA from the banking and insurance system based on the “reputational risk” the state suggests to regulated entities and their investors, when coupled with this type of inflammatory rhetoric is beyond the pale....