Decline in Free Speech in Britain Blamed on PC Policies
by Evan Moore
(CNSNews.com) - Only one-third of respondents in a new survey of British adults believe free speech exists in their country, and only one in five believe that they can safely voice their opinion on a sensitive issue.
The poll by YouGov, an Internet market research firm, was conducted on behalf of www.friction.tv, a video-based forum for political debate.
While 98 percent of respondents said they believed in the right to free speech, only half said they had ever spoken out on a sensitive issue.
"We supposedly live in a truly democratic society where freedom of speech is a fundamental right enjoyed by everyone," friction.tv Chief Marketing Officer Andy West said in a press release.
"However these survey results have shown rather powerfully that most adults in the U.K. feel that this is not the case."
West added, "We live in such a politically correct society that people don't know what they can and can't say anymore and there is a constant fear that if you go against the grain, you'll be vilified by your peers."
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