This calmly infuriates me.
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Nope, it had nothing to do with silencing free speech, it was about road rage and signs to look for on the road. If you're out driving and minding your own business, the higher the presence of bumper stickers on another car, the higher the likelihood that that other driver could be prone to road rage. The study was meant to make us alert to such people while driving.
Here is just one article about it, from 2008: https://www.newsweek.com/bumper-stickers-road-rage-221616
Pull Quote from the article: "As scientists led by Paul Bell, Lucy Troup and Bell's student William Szlemko of Colorado State University report in the June issue of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, it's a simple matter of territoriality. Researchers have long known that drivers who have a strong sense of personal space while in their vehicle are more likely to be road-ragers, and the more someone plasters his vehicle with bumper stickers and decals the more territorial he feels about the space inside."
Sorry but to me that reads like made-up left-wing nonsense. "Territorial" about the space inside their car?
Nobody ever thinks in these terms. Unless someone is actively trying to carjack you, the space inside your car is never challenged, at risk, or up for grabs. It never even crosses your mind. You just get in your car and go and never think about the "territory" therein.
It could just be more likely that the bumper stickers mean the person has a lot to say and likes to say it in this manner where just driving around gets their message out to hundreds of people at a time. Crazy, I know, but it could be.
I don't write the headlines, I just report them.