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That sounds like satire, but many of the under-30 crowd might support it: ¨However, Americans under the age of 30 stand out when it comes to 1984‐ style in‐ h
by brightlancer 3y ago
That sounds like satire, but many of the under-30 crowd might support it:
¨However, Americans under the age of 30 stand out when it comes to 1984‐ style in‐ home government surveillance cameras. 3 in 10 (29 percent) Americans under 30 favor “the government installing surveillance cameras in every household” in order to “reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity.” Support declines with age, dropping to 20 percent among 30–44 year olds and dropping considerably to 6 percent among those over the age of 45.¨
https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-government-surveillance-cameras-1 https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-gov...
As someone else put it, the younger folks live so much of their lives online where they can contact a corporate nanny to remove speech they dislike and ban users, it makes sense they'd carry those ideas into meatspace and want the same done.
- cubefox 3y agoFor blacks (of all ages) it's even higher: 33%. For whites it's 9%. So the difference is presumably the greatest between young blacks and old whites, though these numbers aren't given.