Freespeech - SquareOffs

Can schools discipline students for off-campus student speech?

Asked by Devon Jones

6/23/2021

Can schools discipline students for off-campus student speech?

75%

No, it's unconstitutional WINNER

25%

It's within their right

75%

No, it's unconstitutional

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No one has commented yet

25%

It's within their right

0 Comment

No one has commented yet

Should social media platforms ban hate groups/speech?

Asked by KTVZ

718 Votes

Should social media platforms ban hate groups/speech?

53%

Yes, monitor speech! Yes, monitor speech!

47%

No, we have rights! No, we have rights!

53%

Yes, monitor speech!

Social media platforms should be safe to use by all groups. Threats of violence should be first priority when it comes to banning groups, but any hate speech should be monitored... Show More

Social media platforms should be safe to use by all groups. Threats of violence should be first priority when it comes to banning groups, but any hate speech should be monitored as well. Show Less

7 Comments

Richard Dillard

yes some speech should be band. Anything that goes against the constitution and promotes violence should be band.

Ka San

Free speech does not allow yelling "Fire" in a theater when there is no fire, so It's not an absolute right. As such, hate speech should be banned. No one benefits from hate speech, no matter rights!!

Nancy Cook

No one is free to threaten others. Hate speech is a threat.

Kim Yager-Gilchrist

No one should be able to promote hate! It’s about being a decent human being.

Sam Ackerman

The people banning "hate" speech today will be banning what you want to talk about tomorrow.

Heidi Owen

yeah especially if it stops all the damn muslime and m.s. 13, posts and all the other hate American slogans ,.. and yes white supremists included but c'mon the other's are even worse.

HLH *

Enough is enough - If Facebook can't control it then someone else should

Oakley Taylor

Because there is a rampant abundance of hate happening in this country recently. No need to encourage it.

47%

No, we have rights!

Our First Amendment rights negate any jurisdiction a social media platform would have over groups who use the platform and what they say.

Our First Amendment rights negate any jurisdiction a social media platform would have over groups who use the platform and what they say. Show Less

10 Comments

Gary Hatherill

To easy to label opposing views "Hate speech".

Dave Voiles

A very arrogant person would think they have the right to decide what kind of speech is appropriate or acceptable. In some countries people go to prison for disagreeing with the status quo. Want that?

clhuke64

Sure....stopping speech of any kind worked for Hitler and Mussolini……..just saying...

Ken Callison

What constitutes hate speech, and who decides? Just because I have a different point of view, doesn’t mean I’m being hateful.

Christine Young

If we could depend on the fairness of the social media provider, but we can’t. One side will always have more power depending on the provider‘s bias. If we can’t do it right, then zero censorship.

Chase Mays

I think this is an issue for social media platforms to decide what they want to allow. If users are opposed to the platforms speech policies, they will naturally gravitate away from the platform.

Robert Mckheen

Speech is our right just as it is to have a gun.

Sam Ackerman

Nope, not only do we have freedom of speech. But I also find some of the "hate" speech stuff really funny.

Mike Edson

Face book is a private company. so they have the right to edit what is in their site. But I would rather put the speech out for people to see. then they can make up their own mind.

sharder8

Define hate speech today . . . Anything, and I mean anything that may or can offend someone. Heck, even supporting Trump is considered "hate speech" by Liberals. Where does it end?

Asked by 21st Century Wire

1/22/2014

Is political correctness destroying the foundation of America?

70%

Yes WINNER

30%

No

70%

Yes

Political correctness is out of control and promotes a culture that devalues personal expression.

Political correctness is out of control and promotes a culture that devalues personal expression. Show Less

17 Comments

DobieMediaPro

Political correctness is strategically dwindling freedom of speech and stripping our society of individuality, 2 ideals embedded in the foundation of the united states of america, country not Corp.

Jeffrey Ward

PC is a MARXIST strategy !

John Doran

Because PC is cultural Marxism, as promulgated by the Frankfurt School. & Marxism is utterly dedicated to the destruction of our Western, industrial?, democratic? & family based way of life.

Linda D. Snow

Because it's true. Didn't have all this BS before PC came along!!

Terri McKerahan Jones

PC = Lies and half-truths.

Jeffrey E Calvert

Because political correctness is just another form of Tyranny

Tim

The issue of political correctness is destroying our constitutional rights

Ainslee Burke Pickenpaugh

PC is dividing our country into this group or that group, ever since being PC was almost mandatory we stopped being united and became more worried about little groups here and there.

Susan Steele

Political correctness is a reason or an excuse to avert attention from hidden agendas, causing separation and chaos

Patrick Henningsen

Changing language = changing behavior = social control

Paul Simminger

Frankly speaking, "Political Correctness" is like trying to pick up a piece of animal feces by the clean end.

Darlene Albarran

If you don't agree with someone they cry "racist, bigot". If you don't agree with the mainstream you are looked at as evil. No one is allowed to think differently.

Jack Clark

It should be obvious. What ever happened with "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Nothing should be off limits in discourse in an open society.

George W.Reichel

Because it's the truth

Reve Kiehl

It violates free speech.

Bernita Eddy Nesbitt Hurd

People really don't care about people any more. Not everyone thinks and feels the same.

William Polk

IT IS THE FACT AND TRUTH

30%

No

Media controversies create the appearance of a cracked foundation.

Media controversies create the appearance of a cracked foundation. Show Less

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Freespeech SquareOffs

Can schools discipline students for off-campus student speech?

75% No, it's unconstitutional WINNER

25% It's within their right

75% No, it's unconstitutional

25% It's within their right

Should social media platforms ban hate groups/speech?

53% Yes, monitor speech! Yes, monitor speech!

47% No, we have rights! No, we have rights!

53% Yes, monitor speech!

47% No, we have rights!

Is political correctness destroying the foundation of America?

70% Yes WINNER

30% No

70% Yes

30% No

About Freespeech

75%

No, it's unconstitutional WINNER

25%

It's within their right

75%

No, it's unconstitutional

25%

It's within their right

53%

Yes, monitor speech! Yes, monitor speech!

47%

No, we have rights! No, we have rights!

53%

Yes, monitor speech!

47%

No, we have rights!

70%

Yes WINNER

30%

No

70%

Yes

30%

No