Support for snipe censorship also at 80%

CNET’s got a new article up, “Blog censorship gains support.” (Tip: Dave Winer and Steve Rubel.) According to a survey conducted by Hostway,

“[e]ighty percent of respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private citizens.”

Uh, no surprises there. Eighty percent of Americans would say the same thing about any group of people doing anything with ‘home addresses and other personal information about private citizens.’ Let me broadly generalize – Americans don’t like threats to their personal privacy, and are none too concerned with constitutional niceties, at least when on the receiving end of an unanticipated pollster’s questions. What’s this got to do with blogs?