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Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-have-too-many-freedoms-please-take-some-away dept.

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."

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  1. What a surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Personally, I'm in favor of my home address being posted on the Internet. These results are shocking.

    1. Re:What a surprise by XFilesFMDS1013 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm in favor of my home address being posted on the Internet.

      Man, Slashdotters will do ANYTHING to try and meet a female, won't they?

  2. The solution is easy by I_Love_Pocky! · · Score: 5, Funny

    The solution to bad polls like this is easy. If the pollers refuse to ask more straight forward questions, post their home addresses on your blog.

  3. 80% of Americans want water banned by Colin+Smith · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what these statistics really say is that somewhere around 80% of Americans are idiots.

    I don't really think that the 20% of Americans who are not idiots or the rest of the world will be too surprised.

    MMMMmmmmm. Government by the majority. Tasty.

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