From the NZ govt: a new bill with online take-down powers

We are seeing more and more censorship now. It’s taken for granted by most reasonable people that seriously offensive/violent material be censored however this is a growing trend and repeatedly information that simply politely questions or takes an alternative view to the government narrative is being ‘fact checked’ and removed by Facebook. One of those disturbing issues is the right to choose which medical intervention we are subjected to. Increasingly also it is difficult to find in an internet search, any info that is alternative to mainstream. Such is the push now to decide for you what info you ought to read. And which info you ought not to read. I certainly have noticed that although there is censorship detailing ‘violence’ as the rationale, there has been no intervention with regard to the violent online games available to young, malleable and vulnerable minds?? Since the event of last March 2019 about which we are not allowed to speak, wouldn’t the violent games surely have been the first thing to go? It seems the corporation (parading as a government) never blinks an eye at that violence. EWR

From the msn.com

The Government has introduced a bill that will allow it to issue takedown notices and create internet filters, with a focus on combatting terrorism and violent extremism, Marc Daalder reports

New legislation will enable the Government to issue takedown notices and create internet filters for content deemed objectionable by the Chief Censor, with an eye towards terrorist and violent extremist content.

Newsroom first reported the Government was moving ahead with the suite of reforms in January. The bill was meant to be introduced in March but seems to have been delayed by Covid-19.

The bill does not appear to have changed significantly from the proposal Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin took to Cabinet in December.

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6 thoughts on “From the NZ govt: a new bill with online take-down powers”

  1. After the Ides of March last year, the government:
    – Threatened with imprisonment anyone who possessed the bloodless shooting video, even though far more shocking footage is freely available on the web, including snuff videos made by ISIS and other “rebels” fighting the Syrian government.
    – Was presumably instrumental in the application of draconian censorship entailing the unavailability of many popular websites, and the threat by internet providers of a withdrawal of service from the site Natural News.

    Are we to understand that these actions taken by the government last year were unlawful?

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    1. Barbara … “Ides of March” … yes, interesting date there isn’t it. And doesn’t it just read as ridiculous comparing the bloody mayhem with … “a withdrawal of service from the site Natural News”. Denmark surely does smell rotten these days.

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  2. Following the Christchruch mosque matter, the chief perpatrator shot a selfie video documenting his crime spree in full-time detail, scene by terrible scene…He cleverly arranged that Facebook screened the movie automatically in real time as the crime continued.. People with an aversion to violence (yeah, there are some of us still arouund) wouldn’t even think to watch such a censored video at any price, not even for free.

    Then Cinder’s officialdom discovered that this FB film revealed that the shooter had accomplices: this didn’t square with JA’s assurances that Mr Tarrant was a lone operator.

    An astute Australian video editor produced a sanitised family-viewing clip, so I decided my mind would be disturbed by anything more objectionable than the realisation that the PM’s lies as she declared the gunman was acting alone. The PM banned watching the video, on pain of a 10-year stretch in jail… and this of course made many Kiwi battlers super-keen to find out just what we were not aloud (sic) to watch.

    We can hope and pray Tracey Martin’s Bill might try and avoid future PMinisterial embarrassment.

    The current conspiracy covid further demonstrates how top officials are so insulated from the real world, they think they can continue to get away with their idiopathetic lies….but let’s leave further topical comments for a later post.

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