No offense: the censorship generation?

AuthorSoave, Robby
PositionCitings - Millennials on speech censorship - Brief article

FORTY PERCENT of millennials think the government should be able to censor speech that is offensive to minorities, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Older Americans were much less likely to support censorship. Only 27 percent of GenXers (ages 35-50), 24 percent of Boomers (ages 51-69), and 12 percent of people 70 and older agreed that the government should be able to restrict offensive statements. These results seem in keeping with the spirit of a separate survey from The New Criterion that found majority support among college students for speech codes, mandatory trigger warnings, and censorship of hateful speakers.

Another recent poll found that...

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