{"id":3733,"date":"2017-10-31T19:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcoldstreams.wordpress.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2017-10-31T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:48:57","slug":"the-problem-with-censoring-speech-is-who-gets-to-be-the-censor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/10\/31\/the-problem-with-censoring-speech-is-who-gets-to-be-the-censor\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with censoring speech is &#8230; who gets to be the censor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Who gets to be the censor?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crazily, Americans say they favor free speech <em>and censorship!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; the survey also found Americans willing to censor, regulate, or punish a wide variety of speech and expression they personally find offensive:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>51% of staunch liberals say it\u2019s \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d to punch Nazis. 53% of Republicans favor stripping U.S. citizenship from people who burn the American flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people\u2019s preferred gender pronouns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>65% of Republicans say NFL players should be fired if they refuse to stand for the anthem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>58% of Democrats say employers should punish employees for offensive Facebook posts. 4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>7% of Republicans favor bans on building new mosques.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/poll-71-americans-say-political-correctness-has-silenced-discussions-society-needs-have-58-have\">Poll: 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions Society Needs to Have, 58% Have Political Views They\u2019re Afraid to Share | Cato @ Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing. Americans think they &#8211; and college students &#8211; should engage in free speech &#8211; but simultaneously favor censorship of speakers they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to censor speech you do not like &#8211; avoid it, do not listen to it, do not attend their talks, do not lend them support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who gets to be the censor? Crazily, Americans say they favor free speech and censorship! &#8230; the survey also found Americans willing to censor, regulate, or punish a wide variety of speech and expression they personally find offensive: 51% of staunch liberals say it\u2019s \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d to punch Nazis. 53% of Republicans favor stripping U.S. citizenship from people who burn the American flag. 51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people\u2019s preferred gender pronouns. 65% of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/10\/31\/the-problem-with-censoring-speech-is-who-gets-to-be-the-censor\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}