Posted on 10/26/2019 4:36:17 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A new poll found that the majority of Americans would like the First Amendment to be rewritten to reflect the current climate - including updates such as being able to punish 'hate speech' and media who publish content that is 'biased, inflammatory, or false.'
Of the 1,004 respondents who completed the online study, 51 percent of Millennials (those between the ages of 21-38) felt that hate speech should be against the law.
In comparison, some 46 percent of Gen X (ages 39-54) and some 46 percent of Baby Boomers (ages 55-73) felt like hate speech should be against the law.
When asked if they would support a government agency reviewing content put out by these alternative media sources, 36 percent of respondents said they supported regulations while 47 percent said they did not support.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Insanity
This is what “democracy” gets you, mob rule.
I reject all polls, especially those that claim Americans want to undermine any part of the Bill of Rights.
Only ¡YEB! can save us from Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump will never be the Republican nominee.
Polls never lie.
I don't believe this poll. I can believe maybe the part about Millennials, but not this.
here we go again, being manipulated by spoofs and polls. All throughout American history, people have used name calling. Get used to it.. It comes with the territory of FREEDOM.
Define “hate speech.”
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people
These “people” must GTH!
The Bible for starters. Any speech the Left disagrees with.
What’s not to believe? A UK poll on US Freedoms. Sure lets scrape the Constitution right now. I mean polls don’t lie do they?
Yup. Same here. I DONT BELIEVE POLLS. 1000 “respondents” from San Fagcisco does not represent the country and I’ve never been asked..
“Majority of Americans want to change the First Amendment: people want jail time for hate speech”
Grade “A” BS
This poll is by “Campaign for Free Speech.” I haven’t heard of this organization. Who are they and what are their beliefs on government??
The very concept of “Hate” speech is antithetical to Free Speech.
An entire generation has been raised under the threat of arrest for “Hate” speech. How can they conceive of an America that people risked their lives to get to so they’d escape Gulags, Concentration Camps or slaughter? They cannot grasp the principle that speech as such is never criminal. So they believe in the next step toward ending freedom and probably believe its moral.
it’s not a UK poll, it’s a poll from an american organization, “the campaign for free speech”.
https://www.campaignforfreespeech.org/free-speech-under-dire-threat-polling-finds/
Sooo dangerous!!!
“The United States public has lost its connection with the First Amendment, leaving protected speech more vulnerable than ever before in modern history.
That’s why Campaign for Free Speech was created.
Recent polling results show that nearly 80% of Americans don’t understand the basics on what the First Amendment protects, while free speech and free press continues to be threatened in the courts, Congress, and in our culture.
CFS is dedicated to ensuring that all Americans may use their First Amendment rights to express ideas responsibly; a cornerstone of liberty and democracy in the United States.
We believe that it is only through the ability to discuss, debate, and criticize ideas that we as a society can come to evolve and advance them.
CFS stands as a vehicle to reinvigorate the nation’s understanding of free speech and freedom of the press; to remind us why the First Amendment is first.”
also never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups
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