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Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship
renai42 writes "A new survey has revealed that Americans overwhelmingly support strong censorship for blogs, even though a substantial amount have never actually been to one. Eighty percent of the 2,500 respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private citizens. However, more than one-third of respondents had never heard of blogs before participating in the survey, and only around 30 percent of participants had actually visited a blog themselves."
But what about the good little sheep who always do what Monkey Boy Bush tells them to do?
They get a coupon for a free Big Mac! Now shattup, Survivor is on!
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
What is a 'website'?
A made up word if you ask me. A series of formatted text-based documents that are traversed by an end user via hypertext links- wait...
What is 'hypertext'?
A made up word if you ask me...
Repeat until brain explodes. I hate to tell you this, but words enter (and leave) our language all the time. Your refusal to accept a new addition to it on account of the word being "made-up" shows you to be something of a pedant. You're not French, are you?
End of lesson. You may press the button.
The US of A is losing ground rapidly in the game of attracting and keeping the smart people. The more the US heads towards being a right wing Theocracy, the more people like myself are just going to stay the fuck away from the place. I mean, I have family there and stuff, but there is no way I'd willingly submit to the insanity that the citizens of the US are inviting into their lives.
Scared. Little. Children.
Not.
The Rest of the World(tm) has had to endure that piece of shit banner for decades...but the second a manufactured threat to The American Way appeared, US citizens -- sorry, consumers -- queued up to throw away their rights and privacy.
The fact that the threat is entirely home-grown and mostly bogus means nothing other than that the vast majority of Americans are gullible and cowardly losers.
Now that you've let the Bush Regime flush the Constitution and Bill of Rights down a whitehouse toilet, will you please stop claiming to be free and brave, since you're obviously neither.
Thanks.
That completely depends.
If Joe Private Citizen is an anarchist that is disrupting the peace, then it probably would be quite fine to publish his address for harassment purposes. There needs to be order of law, but some people who are essentially terrorists are out to disturb this order.
For example, take someone like Noam Chomsky. Sure, he has some good knowledge, and perhaps what he says has some place at some time. But times like these are most certainly not the time to try to bring down the nation with his anarchist ideas(he calls it anarcho-syndicalism or libertarian-socialism, whatever that means). Everything he says is used by the Islamofascists against us and our freedom. It's people like Dr. Chomsky that need to be pressured into the margins. If giving out his personal information so that other citizens may contact him in order to give up his deviant ways, than so be it. That's just one example where it would moral.
Some things which may be immoral to do to regular people may not always be immoral. We have to take it on a case by case basis. Sometimes the extraneous liberties of those who choose out of malice to be irrepsonsible with those liberties need to be curtailed so order is kept. We need order or everyone you love will be left to the whims of those who care not for life and liberty. We know this more than ever now that we've witnessed the terror of 9/11.
Again, you are really missing the point. You are assuming that this has something to do with post 9/11 attitudes. If you were to ask this question -anywhere- in the world, you would get the same answer. If anything, I would bet that Americans answer no, despite the flagrant bias of the question, more then most nations in the world.
The point is that this was a stupid question to begin with, made stupider by the complete lack of context. Ask this question to a few different nations populace and show me results that are different then American answers, and you might be on to something. Ask a biased polling question to just Americans and then go ahead and make a conclusion about what Americans think, and have committed some pretty grievous biasing.
I am not saying that Americans might not be stupid or jumpy. I am not saying that they are not stupider or jumpier then normal due to 9/11. I am saying that this question means absolutely nothing unless it is either better worded, or asked to other populations. A horrible and biased question means nothing without some sort of context, and this poll was done without any context.