What do American people think about censorship?
Social axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
30% of American respondents take the position “The state should stop speech that puts down small groups.”, against 42% for “People should be free to say hurtful things without the state stepping in.”, with 28% choosing neither. n = 109, margin of error ±9.9, weighted to the United States's adult population.
Where the United States sits on social
What is measured about the United States on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Using the internet
ITU · 2024
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94.7% |
higher than most countries
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Tertiary enrolment
UNESCO UIS · 2022
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79.4% |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on censorship
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · People should be free to say hurtful things without the state stepping in.
B · The state should stop speech that puts down small groups.
World, unweighted: 40% A ·
27% neither ·
33% B · n = 4765
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30% B 🇺🇸 n=109 |
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A · Parents, not the state, should decide what children see online.
B · Children under 16 should be kept off social media by law.
World, unweighted: 33% A ·
30% neither ·
38% B · n = 4755
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34% B 🇺🇸 n=112 |
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A · Each country should set its own rules for the internet.
B · The internet needs one set of rules for everyone.
World, unweighted: 48% A ·
25% neither ·
27% B · n = 4749
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26% B 🇺🇸 n=113 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- The united states public opinion on censorship
- Censorship poll the united states
- What do american people think about censorship
- What percentage of american people support censorship
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.