(The Week)
A newly released poll from Pew Research found a "spiral of silence" on the topic of mass NSA surveillance in which social media users are unwilling to discuss the issue online, particularly if their friends do not agree with them. Notably, this self-censorship was far more prevalent on the internet than in real life:
People
were less willing to discuss the Snowden-NSA story in social media than
they were in person. 86 percent of Americans were willing to have an
in-person conversation about the surveillance program, but just 42
percent of Facebook and Twitter users were willing to post about it on
those platforms. [
Pew]
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