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."

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Big Deal. The Bill of Rights polls poorly too...

[wernst]

Though I can't seem to google this now, I seem to recall that pollsters asked a random sampling of Americans if they were in favor of various rights, like freedom to worship, freedom to assemble, and so forth. Basically, the pollsters were repeating various sentences and phrases from the Bill of Rights.

Turns out that the majority of respondants were against the idea of of creating new constitutional ammendments ensuring these rights, and the majority were ALSO unaware that there was ALREADY a set of ammendments ensuring these rights.

Thank God we actually live in a Republic and not a Democracy...

Freedom Fighters

[nate nice]

It should come as no surprise that a majority of American High School students believe there should be strong limits to the first amendment. I'm talking limits like what newspapers can print, what people can just say, etc. It's a rather scary precedent to be sure. Luckily it is well covered and our mass media (no surprise) thinks these kids are lost. Which they are.

I'm happy to live in America and proud of the great things my countrymen have done in the past. I also recognize the many failures we have had as a nation. But lately it seems that our constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are simply pieces of paper that any politician or judge can simply ignore. Not to mention the vast amount of people here that believe in things that are rather unconstitutional, but yet clamor about the USA liberating all these people everywhere, screw Europe mentality, etc. It seems the wool is over many peoples eyes and I fear they cannot change.

Maybe when oil crashes in the next 25 or less years, people will wake up. But I doubt it. I'm sure the blame will be passed elsewhere by dubious forces and the people will eat it up. I never really thought it could happen, and it is avoidable, but it seems Orwell's "1984" is almost a manual for what is to come.

Oh well, I can't change a thing and even if I could they wouldn't listen. Maybe I'm wrong and really everything is OK. I don't mean to complain so much but I don't understand people (both major parties btw) that want to take away their own rights. Why would I want to take away reasonable things from myself?