Americans love free speech, survey finds — until they realise everyone else has it too
New Indian ExpressJohn G. Geer, Vanderbilt University and Jacob Mchangama, Vanderbilt University Americans’ views on free speech change directions every so often. The Supreme Court itself, as recently as 1989, has declared that the “bedrock principle” of the First Amendment is that “the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” For years, conservative politicians and commentators have warned that college campuses are not strong enough protectors of free speech. But during the campus protests, liberals cautioned that crackdowns by university administrators, state officials and the police violated protestors’ free speech rights. As researchers at Vanderbilt University’s Project on Unity and American Democracy and The Future of Free Speech, respectively, we sought to determine where Americans stand.
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