New Study Shows Conservatives Value Online Free Speech More Than Liberals

“If you’re in favor of freedom of speech that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.”

Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest libertarians of the 20th-century, said this in the 1980s.

It’s hard to find liberals as like him.

A new study Stanford University compared the views of conservatives and progressives on free speech and censorship.

“Social media companies have come under increasing pressure to remove misinformation from their platforms, but disagreements between Republicans and Democrats over what should be removed have stymied efforts to deal with misinformation in the United States,” The study’s summary is available here.

It went on, “In this paper, we identify three potential sources of partisan disagreement: 1) a ‘fact gap’ — differences in perceptions about what is misinformation; 2) a ‘value gap’ — differences in overall preferences about the amount of content that should be removed; and 3) ‘party promotion’ — a desire to leave misinformation online that promotes one’s own party.”

“We conduct a survey experiment in a national survey of U.S. respondents that controls for the first factor and disaggregates the effects of the remaining two,” The text was read. “We explicitly tell respondents that the content presented to them is misinformation and vary whether that content aligns with the respondent’s party or the opposing party.”

“We find strong evidence for a value gap,” According to the study.

BREAKING: liberals hate libertyhttps://t.co/P2i5kaWPaT

— Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) February 14, 2023

“Even when Republicans agree that content is false, they are half as likely as Democrats to say that the content should be removed and more than twice as likely to consider removal as censorship,” The study was concluded. “While we find some evidence of Democrats’ willingness to use content moderation for party promotion, overwhelmingly our results show that disagreement between Republicans and Democrats about content moderation comes from differences in values rather than strategic considerations of party promotion.”

Evidently, old-fashioned partisanship is a factor in this study. The study even admits it in its methodology.

To return to Chomsky’s quote, “If you’re in favor of freedom of speech that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.”

You can switch “despise” with any of the current popular names for news or opinion that dissent from establishment narratives – “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech” – and today you will find a Left that increasingly finds censoring thought they don’t like as the socially responsible thing to do.

According to Chomsky, today’s problems are not a new problem. “liberals” Are “not in favor of freedom of speech.” In the current political climate, this puts you on right.

It’s quite bizarre!

Noam Chomsky, the American leftist view once standard on free speech, is concise, clear, and principled.

Now also available in the following brand: “far-right” Or “fascist” In contemporary left-liberal discourse pic.twitter.com/VFw7uAOKRE

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 8, 2022

Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, or other notables disappeared almost three years ago The famous Harper’s Letter was signed Encourage open discussion by urging the government and other major institutions. For Some time Now, I have Covered At BASEDPolitics This noticeable shift The Left is where the ACLU/Noam Chomsky old school are located Understanding free speech This has been increasing Go out of the window – including at the Actual ACLU

Chomsky is still an OG liberal, and we thank God for that.

Last week, 153 writers, artists and academics — including J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky and Nell Irvin Painter — signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine warning of a threat to intellectual life in the United States https://t.co/iNAHktkVum

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) July 17, 2020

We Last year’s lesson A planned “Disinformation Governance Board” the Biden administration was concocting – the federal government actually policing online speech in direct violation of the First Amendment – that they backed off on. Now, we find out that the State Department funded “a” online speech policing program.disinformation index” That Warns Advertisers should avoid certain media outlets We then learned via the Twitter Files, Facebook Files. Twitter Facebook Coordinated with the government in order to censor and regulate private expression.

America. A Constitution is supposedly in place that protects freedom expression.

To be clear, conservatives are not opposed to the regulation and censorship of speech, especially at local and state levels.

Chomsky points out that the Harper’s Letter was not only addressed to the pro-censorship left faction, but also the rising right. “cancel culture” It is mostly used by mainstream media. We did a show last week on how – on some issues – it can come from parts of the Right:https://t.co/Ep2Bmh4XbF

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 6, 2023

However, the study shows that conservatives overall are significantly more likely than others to believe that news and views should be allowed. “liberals” Larger populations have become more comfortable using censorship to enhance their social skills.

It sounds strange, but free speech is now a de facto rightwing value.

The right to free speech “right wing value.” This becomes more frightening every day. https://t.co/2WIxb9g3UZ

— Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) April 30, 2022

This is something that I believe ‘the right has 100% adopted relatively recently. Strangely, the left is losing this value.

Similar to free speech’. Although it was a useful tool throughout the civil rights era and is still used today, it is considered to be ‘right-wing. 🤷🏿‍♂️ https://t.co/IKlxN37RNZ

— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) March 10, 2020

Trying to turn free speech into a *right-wing* value is one of the dumbest fucking things liberals have done. They don’t have any principles to challenge or appeal to when they are censored either by the state or corporate giants.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 26, 2021

People don’t notice the biggest changes. It is harder to see the effects of mass change. This has been repeated throughout history.

Today, you would be hard-pressed to find an American progressive who, when asked if they believe in free speech, would say ‘no, I don’t.’ We are not there yet.

You would find it even harder to find one who really meant it.

Studies show.

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