This is the scariest thing I’ve heard yet today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n …when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n But wait — there’s more! Seventy-five percent said that flag burning is illegal, and half of them claimed that the government could restrict “any indecent material on the Internet”. Perhaps even worse:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When asked whether people should be allowed to express unpopular views, 97 percent of teachers and 99 percent of school principals said yes. Only 83 percent of students did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n If you’re wondering what kind of sensationalist, radical, statistically-challenged institution is behind the survey, you’re probably wondering in the wrong direction. This was a survey sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/a>, which seems to be completely legit. In any case, the whole report is here<\/a> if you want more detail.<\/p>\n (via Warrenellis.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the scariest thing I’ve heard yet today. …when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-politics","category-7-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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