{"id":19527,"date":"2025-09-11T03:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19527"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:50:36","slug":"censorship-majority-of-college-students-favor-censorship-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/09\/11\/censorship-majority-of-college-students-favor-censorship-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship: Majority of college students favor censorship of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;For the first time ever&#8221; since it started the surveys, expanding from 55 campuses in 2020 to 257 in this report, most students say their schools should block speakers who hold any of six views associated with the left or right on hot-button cultural issues,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/news\/2026-college-free-speech-rankings-americas-colleges-get-f-poor-free-speech-climate\">FIRE said Tuesday<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/free-speech\/student-support-violence-bans-controversial-speech-hits-record-highs-annual\">Student support for violence, bans on &#8216;controversial&#8217; speech hits &#8216;record highs&#8217; in annual survey | Just The News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Students do not understand what &#8220;free speech&#8221;means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-third of college students favor the use of violence to stop speech they dislike. A majority favor censorship of opposing views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-civil-rights","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}