The Loss of Freedom of Speech

[Greg]

There are a bunch of articles on this website regarding freedom of speech loss but didn't seem like a subject title that was specifically about it. You worry when you read stuff like the article below and people lose their jobs over their opinions.

http://newsone.com/3397820/news-anchor- ... book-post/

[jafs]

Well, I don't know.

Private employers aren't mentioned in the 1st amendment, which is about governmental actions.

[Greg]

Well, I don't know.

Private employers aren't mentioned in the 1st amendment, which is about governmental actions.

You're right. Private employers can do what they want to, perhaps it's more of just sensitivity of how quickly someone can lose their job over what someone says. Maybe says more of us as a society to each other versus just society to the government.

[Xan]

How about the professor getting fired not for defending traditional marriage, but for saying that it shouldn't be forbidden to do so.  And this is at a Catholic university!

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... cal-views/

[Greg]

How about the professor getting fired not for defending traditional marriage, but for saying that it shouldn't be forbidden to do so.  And this is at a Catholic university!

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... cal-views/

Yikes. So to the original point of the thread, maybe it is just that people are getting too thin skinned or assume just because someone disagrees with them about something, that they are not just wrong, but should feel ashamed for ever thinking something like that.

[Benko]

40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities

American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data on free speech and media across the globe.

We asked whether people believe that citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Four-in-ten Millennials say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups, while 58% said such speech is OK.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20 ... inorities/

what a shock (insert sarcasm smiley)

[Greg]

40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities

American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data on free speech and media across the globe.

We asked whether people believe that citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Four-in-ten Millennials say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups, while 58% said such speech is OK.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20 ... inorities/

what a shock (insert sarcasm smiley)

Well being a millennial myself, I feel sad that people think like this. While I might not agree with what someone is saying, I don't think I should be able to restrict what they desire to say. I also think that it becomes the olde "slippery slope" when you'd say the government has the right to choose what is okay to say and what is not. Once you give government that power, it's hard to take it away.

[Cortopassi]

What is a minority group?  The article was not at all clear.  Did the question simply use the term minority group and not use black, Asian, Muslim, etc?  Who isn't considered a minority group except white males?

People change as they get older, and I would expect that these similar questions posed in the 60s and 70s may have gotten very similar results.  I don't find anything shocking either.