[governance] Majority Of Americans Don't Mind Being Spied Upon, Pew Study Finds
Adam Peake
ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Tue Jun 11 11:58:48 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If such a study was conducted in China with 5000 respondents...
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> What will your conclusion be?
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If it was conducted by a well known and well respected firm, probably
something like "that's interesting".
Think it really depends on the source.
Adam
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> Subject: Re: [governance] Majority Of Americans Don't Mind Being Spied Upon,
> Pew Study Finds
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
> wrote:
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> Sample size doesn't quite matter as much as the method of sampling, and the
> questions asked in the survey, which must be carefully designed to eliminate
> interviewer bias, among other things
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> --srs (iPad)
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> On 11-Jun-2013, at 20:52, Simon Ontoyin <exigencygh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A contagiously hilarious study. 100 people?
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Majority Of Americans Don't Mind Being Spied Upon, Pew Study Finds
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> Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/10/2013 17:48 -0400
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> In what is likely the most disappointing, if not unexpected, news of the
> day, we find that according to a just released Pew Research study, a
> substantial majority, or 56% of Americans, "say the National Security
> Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of
> Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism."
> Only 41% object to having every phone conversation intercepted,
> investigated, analyzed, and recorded for posterity. Sorry Edward Snowden:
> you just threw your life away for nothing. The sheep have been properly and
> thoroughly conditioned and brainwashed, which is why they continue to get
> precisely the government they so rightfully deserve.
> <6-10-13-1.png>
> More from Pew:
>
> The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center and The Washington
> Post, conducted June 6-9 among 1,004 adults, finds no indications that last
> week’s revelations of the government’s collection of phone records and
> internet data have altered fundamental public views about the tradeoff
> between investigating possible terrorism and protecting personal privacy.
>
> It just gets better:
>
> <6-10-13-3.png>Currently 62% say it is more important for the federal
> government to investigate possible terrorist threats, even if that intrudes
> on personal privacy. Just 34% say it is more important for the government
> not to intrude on personal privacy, even if that limits its ability to
> investigate possible terrorist threats.
>
> These opinions have changed little since an ABC News/Washington Post survey
> in January <6-10-13-2.png>2006. Currently, there are only modest partisan
> differences in these opinions: 69% of Democrats say it is more important for
> the government to investigate terrorist threats, even at the expense of
> personal privacy, as do 62% of Republicans and 59% of independents.
>
> However, while six-in-ten or more in older age groups say it is more
> important to investigate terrorism even if it intrudes on privacy, young
> people are divided: 51% say investigating terrorism is more important while
> 45% say it is more important for the government not to intrude on personal
> privacy, even if that limits its ability to investigate possible threats.
> The survey finds that while there are apparent differences between the NSA
> surveillance programs under the Bush and Obama administrations, overall
> public reactions to both incidents are similar. Currently, 56% say it is
> acceptable that the NSA “has been getting secret court orders to track
> telephone calls of millions of Americans in an effort to investigate
> terrorism.”
> In January 2006, a few weeks after initial new reports of the Bush
> administration’s surveillance program, 51% said it was acceptable for the
> NSA to investigate “people suspected of involvement with terrorism by
> secretly listening in on telephone calls and reading e-mails between some
> people in the United States and other countries, without first getting court
> approval to do so.”
>
> Perhaps least surprising is that once the most vocal objector to "Dubya"
> pervasive surveillance, the Democrats, are now its most ardent defenders.
> And so once again, political party line stupidity trumps common sense.
>
> Republicans and Democrats have had very different views of the two
> operations. Today, only about half of Republicans (52%) say it is acceptable
> for the NSA to obtain court orders to track phone call records of millions
> of Americans to investigate terrorism. In January 2006, fully 75% of
> Republicans said it was acceptable for the NSA to investigate suspected
> terrorists by listing in on phone calls and reading emails without court
> approval.
>
> <6-10-13-4.png>
>
> Democrats now view the NSA’s phone surveillance as acceptable by 64% to 34%.
> In January 2006, by a similar margin (61% to 36%), Democrats said it was
> unacceptable for the NSA to scrutinize phone calls and emails of suspected
> terrorists.
>
> Of course, if the president was Romney, his head would already be on a
> stick. Metaphorically speaking of course.
> Finally, the biggest danger to America it appears is not a turnkey
> totalitarian tyrant, but broad apathy as it turns out only one in four
> follow NSA News "very closely." The other 3 in 4 are far more concerned with
> who gets to fake-wed the fake-bachelorette this season, or who is the victor
> of Dancing with the Stars.
>
> Roughly a quarter (27%) of Americans say they are following news about the
> government collecting Verizon phone records very closely. This is a
> relatively modest level of public interest. Only another 21% say they are
> following this fairly closely, while about half say they are following not
> too (17%) or not at all (35%) closely.
>
> Interest in reports about the government tracking of e-mail and online
> activities is almost identical: 26% say they are following this story very
> closely, 33% not closely at all.
>
> Attention to these stories is higher among Republicans and
> Republican-leaning independents: 32% are following reports about the
> government tracking phone records very closely, compared with 24% of
> Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. The partisan gap in interest
> is almost identical when it comes to reports about government collecting
> email and other online information: 30% of Republicans and
> Republican-leaners are following very closely compared with 20% of Democrats
> and Democratic-leaners.
>
> Overall, those who disagree with the government’s data monitoring are
> following the reports somewhat more closely than those who support them.
> Among those who find the government’s tracking of phone records to be
> unacceptable, 31% are following the story very closely, compared with 21%
> among those who say it is acceptable. Similarly with respect to reports
> about government monitoring of email and online activities, 28% of those who
> say this should not be done are following the news very closely, compared
> with 23% of those who approve of the practice.
>
> Those who wish to be even more depressed can read on here.
> As for Edward Snowden, hopefully this will teach you to throw away your life
> to liberate a bloated and apathetic society that couldn't care less if the
> slaughter-gate was slammed shut behind it, and just wants to have its
> rose-colored blinders on in perpetuity.
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