{"id":25623,"date":"2024-02-28T01:39:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=25623"},"modified":"2024-02-28T01:39:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:39:38","slug":"huge-number-of-americans-fear-free-speech-disintegrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=25623","title":{"rendered":"Huge Number of Americans Fear Free Speech Disintegrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2024\/02\/huge-number-americans-fear-free-speech-disintegrating\/\"><strong>WND.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Guest by post by Bob Unruh\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many think First Amendment \u2018goes too far in the rights it guarantees\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free speech fights are becoming more and more common these days, as social media play a growing role in people\u2019s lives and the leftist corporate owners insist more and more that only their views should be allowed to be disseminated to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Even Joe Biden\u2019s administration tried to use public money to set up what was described as essentially the same as the \u201cMinistry of Truth\u201d found in the dystopian novel \u201c1984.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result isn\u2019t good, according to a new poll, which reveals only 1 in 4 Americans think their right to free speech is secure, and more than two-thirds say the nation\u2019s trajectory on free speech is going the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>The poll is from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the Polarization Research Lab.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about \u201cwhether people are able to freely express their views,\u201d 69% of respondents said things in America are heading in the wrong direction, compared to only 31% who believe that things are heading in the \u201cright direction,\u201d the polling revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Almost one-third of the respondents, 29%, said free speech is not at all secure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average American already thinks that free speech in America is in dire straits. Most worryingly, they think it will get worse,\u201d said FIRE chief research Adviser Sean Stevens. \u201cThese findings should be a wake-up call for the nation to recommit to a vibrant free speech culture before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poll was done Jan. 12-19 and FIRE said it is the first installment of a National Speech Index, a new quarterly survey intended to measure support for the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolarization not only divides Americans on policy, but it fractures our assessments of the stability of the bedrock features of our democracy,\u201d said PRL Director Sean Westwood. \u201cNearly half of Democrats think free speech rights are headed in the right direction, compared to only 26 percent of Republicans. And more than a third of Republicans think the right to free speech is not secure, compared to only 17 percent of Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The groups reported, \u201cOne alarmingly common belief that crosses partisan lines is that idea that the First Amendment \u2018goes too far in the rights it guarantees.\u2019 Around a third of Republicans and a third of Democrats \u2018completely\u2019 or \u2018mostly\u2019 agree with that statement. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey proposed several statements that, though offensive to some, are protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoughly half of respondents (52%) said their community should not allow a public speech that espouses the belief they selected as the most offensive. A supermajority, 69%, said their local college should not allow a professor who espoused that belief to teach classes,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens said the results were not surprising, but were disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere at FIRE, we\u2019ve long observed that many people who say they\u2019re concerned about free speech waver when it comes to beliefs they personally find offensive. But the best way to protect your speech in the future is to defend the right to controversial and offensive speech today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/\">WND News Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/02\/huge-number-americans-fear-free-speech-disintegrating\/\">Huge Number of Americans Fear Free Speech Disintegrating<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article originally appeared on WND.com Guest by post by Bob Unruh\u00a0 Many think First Amendment \u2018goes too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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