Scary Statistics

Very Scary statistics from Joi Ito's Blog.

A significant number of US high-school students regard their constitutional right to freedom of speech as excessive, according to a new survey. (more after the break)

Over a third of the 100,000 students questioned felt the First Amendment went "too far" in guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, worship and assembly.

Only half felt newspapers should be allowed to publish stories that did not have the government's approval.

Now watch this film. As a reference of what "norms" were in '46.

link to Joi's article