{"id":4558,"date":"2023-07-25T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:23:14","slug":"pew-research-democrats-value-free-speech-far-less-than-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"Pew Research: Democrats Value Free Speech Far Less Than Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-1024x532.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4559\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-1024x532.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-1024x532.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-770x400.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-293x152.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120-390x203.png 390w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-120.png 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you were in doubt\u2014and if you were in doubt, that means you aren\u2019t following what is happening in America to the most important freedom of all\u2014Pew Research has confirmed that Democrats value&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/?s=free+speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free speech<\/a>&nbsp;far less than Republicans do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the following statistics and conclusions and weep for our country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe share of U.S. adults who say the federal government should restrict false information has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cJust over half of Americans (55%) support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online, even if it limits people from freely publishing or accessing information.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSupport for government intervention has steadily risen since the first time we asked this question in 2018. In fact, the balance of opinion has tilted: Five years ago, Americans were more inclined to prioritize freedom of information over restricting false information (58% vs. 39%).\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe partisan gap in support for restricting false information has grown substantially since 2018.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDemocrats and Democratic-leaning independents are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online (70% vs. 39%). There was virtually no difference between the parties in 2018, but the share of Democrats who support government intervention has grown from 40% in 2018 to 70% in 2023.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cA large majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners (81%) support technology companies taking such steps, while about half of Republicans (48%) say the same.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are 10 conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 1: The most important human freedom is freedom of speech. Free speech is what makes the pursuit of truth possible. It is what makes the advancement of science possible. It constitutes the very definition of a free society. And free speech is what makes human dignity possible. People who cannot say what they believe are dehumanized. They ultimately become robotic beings exemplified by North Koreans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 2:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/20\/reclaiming-our-inheritance-1776-fighting-liberty-truth-2020s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America<\/a>&nbsp;has been the freest country in the world for all of its history. That is why the French gave America the Statue of Liberty. It is rapidly relinquishing that title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 3: Free speech is seriously threatened for the first time in American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 4: The threat to free speech comes entirely from the Left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 5: There is no example in history of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/?s=the+left\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Left<\/a>&nbsp;attaining power and allowing free speech. From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution to the Maoist takeover of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/?s=China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a>&nbsp;to almost any university in America today, wherever the Left comes to power, it suppresses speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 6: The Left must suppress speech in order to retain power. If it were to allow dissent, it would lose its hold on power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 7: That is why conservative speakers are rarely allowed to speak on college campuses. Left-wing professors, deans, and administrators know\u2014consciously or subconsciously\u2014that an effective conservative speaker can undo years of left-wing indoctrination in just 90 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 8: Given that \u201cDemocrats and Democratic-leaning independents are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online (70% vs. 39%),\u201d the often-stated claim that \u201cthere is little difference between the two parties\u201d is false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 9: All tyrannies label dissent \u201cmisinformation.\u201d That is what Vladimir Putin\u2019s government labels all dissent in Russia today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The communist regime in the Soviet Union named its official newspaper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/05\/17\/politifact-is-to-facts-what-pravda-was-to-truth-credibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pravda<\/a>\u201d\u2014the Russian word for \u201ctruth\u201d\u2014because in a left-wing tyranny, the left-wing regime determines truth. Anything else is \u201cmisinformation\u201d or \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That Western societies are moving toward Soviet-like suppression of speech is obvious in America and was made particularly clear in 2020, when the then-prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, told her country: \u201cWe will continue to be your single source of truth\u201d and \u201cIf you do not hear it from the government, it is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fittingly, Ardern was awarded with two teaching fellowships at Harvard University\u2014one of them at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, based at Harvard Law School, where she \u201cwill study ways to improve content standards and platform accountability for extremist content online.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 10: Liberals are abandoning liberal values\u2014in particular, their storied commitment to free speech. There are far more liberals than leftists, but over the past few years the liberals\u2019 unswerving commitment to the Democratic Party, unswerving commitment to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/?s=new+york+times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, The Washington Post, or virtually any other mainstream news source, and their unswerving opposition to conservatives and the Republican Party has led them to embrace and unswervingly vote for left-wing values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the future, this is what Pew reported regarding young Americans: \u201cThe shares of younger adults who say they support tech companies and the government restricting false information online have increased substantially since 2018 (by 14 and 19 percentage points, respectively).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is a better reaction than to weep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/25\/pew-research-democrats-value-free-speech-far-less-than-republicans\/\">https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/25\/pew-research-democrats-value-free-speech-far-less-than-republicans\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were in doubt\u2014and if you were in doubt, that means you aren\u2019t following what is happening in America to the most important freedom of all\u2014Pew Research has confirmed that Democrats value&nbsp;free speech&nbsp;far less than Republicans do. Read the following statistics and conclusions and weep for our country: Here are 10 conclusions: No. 1: The most important human freedom is freedom of speech. Free speech is what makes the pursuit of truth possible. It is what makes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}