First amendment? Meh.

From our parent site, Legal Insurrection:

Poll: Millennials Cool With Restricting Free Speech

Polling released by Pew late last week reiterates a disturbing trend among the millennial crowd — the desire to censor free speech.

Pew looked specifically at statements offensive to minorities.

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.

Even though a larger share of Millennials favor allowing offensive speech against minorities, the 40% who oppose it is striking given that only around a quarter of Gen Xers (27%) and Boomers (24%) and roughly one-in-ten Silents (12%) say the government should be able to prevent such speech.

The findings also show women are more likely to want government censorship of offensive speech than men and that the belief in limited free speech increases as level of education decreases.