Poll: Majority says First Amendment 'goes too far'
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(The Center Square) – Free speech suppression on college campuses and social media censorship often spur debates over how far the First Amendment should go to protect Americans’ rights to
  • @[email protected]English
    15•1 month ago

    TheCenterSquare conservative propaganda again?

    Stevens highlighted one encouraging result: there seems to be rare bipartisan agreement between Democrats and Republicans — 61% and 52%, respectively — that they are not comfortable with the government regulating the speech of pro-Hamas protesters.

    Speech on support of Palestinians is not the same as pro-Hamas…

    • @ModerateImprovementOP
      -3•1 month ago

      “Not only do many Americans want to take a machete to the First Amendment, but it’s unclear whether they understand its bounds,” said FIRE’s press release. It also states that a plurality of respondents said this spring’s campus pro-Palestinian protests should have been allowed to continue on free speech grounds.

      Yes.

  • theprogressivist
    7•1 month ago

    Please just shut the fuck up already. Grasping at fucking straws at this point. It’s pathetic and you should feel bad about it.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 month ago

    Apparently fits right along with polling for a similar question: “Are you right-wing, stupid, and voting for Trump and the GOP?”.

    A little less than 50% said yes, and are fucking idiots, so this tracks.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 month ago

    Weird how a rebranded right-wing site organized by a right-wing “news” org would happen to voice an opinion that we should cut back on the 1st.

  • HubertManne
    1•1 month ago

    Real americans know its the first and most important amendment as did the founders. Other folks hate america and what it stands for.