The Barry Young hearing on 11 December. If the court rules that only those with specialised expertise can have “reasonable grounds” to raise concerns, it effectively nullifies whistleblower protection for most New Zealand workers.
Why do we even have a committee like this deciding what words are acceptable for a trademark? Wasn’t this government supposed to be tidying up separatist rubbish like this?
This new investigation, the search of my home, and confiscation of my computer are blatantly unconstitutional, a brazen violation of my rights as an author and publisher under Germany’s Basic Law.
Both nations are exporting their digital control frameworks through the Five Eyes alliance, a covert intelligence-sharing network uniting the UK, Canada, US, Australia, and New Zealand.
Former judge David Harvey forecasts fresh online regulation push.
The purpose of this strategy isn’t just to make censorship obvious, but to mock it.
I remember talking to American philosopher Peter Boghossian about what to do about captured universities. He said it was best to abandon them and start again. I feel the same about the MSM. I’m waiting for the whole shooting box to collapse and for new media to arise from the ashes.
The ban on Ricky Gervais’s billboard saying “Welcome to London, Don’t Forget Your Stab Vest”.
Harvey warned that mandatory age verification requirements could become the gateway to compulsory biometric data collection – effectively tying every citizen’s online activity to a digital identity framework.
The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) attempted overreach is just another example of bureaucratic and judicial hubris, and it is time for parliament to reassert its sovereignty.
New Zealand repealed its blasphemy law in 2019. Section 123 of the Crimes Act 1961 – “blasphemous libel” was formally removed by parliament. Yet here we are, 60 years later, watching an unelected regulatory body attempt to recreate the same offence through the back door.
They invited anyone who agreed with them to add their names to the letter – and 2,000 academics duly obliged. Who do those witch-hunters remind you of? It’s inconceivable that they genuinely believed that scientific knowledge has no greater claim to being true than Māori mythology.
The lesson for all of us is that if we do not regularly but peacefully exercise our First Amendment guarantees we will definitely lose them, regardless of who is in power.
Censorship is narrow-minded. It’s shortsighted. Yes, it’s a natural impulse to ideas we find abhorrent. But it’s through calling them out that progress is made, not by cancelling them.
