Can Things Be Both Popular and Silenced?

Re:Can Things Be Both Popular and Silenced? by mpweiher on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:30AM (#17133979)

> You could easily come up with data

Yes, you could. And it's been done:

The Skeptics are Wrong Part 1-3: Attitudes About Free Speech On Campus are Changing

https://heterodoxacademy.org/skeptics-are-wrong-about-campus...

https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-skeptics-are-wrong-part-2/

https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-skeptics-are-wrong-part-3-i...

You're welcome! :-)

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Re:Can Things Be Both Popular and Silenced? by jacobmoe on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:38AM (#17134055)

Thanks, I'll look at this, though I would advise retaining some skepticism when evaluating data from a single source, especially when that data is confirmatory of that source's stated mission. Here's some more to evaluate:

http://jmrphy.net/blog/2018/02/16/who-is-afraid-of-free-spee...

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Re:Can Things Be Both Popular and Silenced? by mpweiher on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:23AM (#17142107)

You might want to consider that the stated mission was a product of the data, particularly in the case of the heterodox academy.

Not everything is a partisan slugfest.

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