The blame game has started again with Chris Hipkins accusing Kiwis vaccinated overseas of clogging up the system by “supplying their information at the last minute”. So it had nothing to do with a system that is inadequate? Let’s instead blame the user, the victim of yet another massive
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog and
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Dear Reader, New Zealander Lisa Pilot has written an excellent submission to the select committee about this insidious Digital ID Trust Framework Bill. I am proud to publish it on my site since it captures perfectly the social credit system contained within the Bill’s intent
As you may have heard, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down. Dorsey is not, it might be said, a popular figure in centre-right circles, given his platform’s relentless censorship of conservatives generally, and former President Trump in particular. Most notoriously, Dorsey’s company banned any discussion of
Desperate migrants who woke early today to finally get their residency applications submitted have been embarrassingly let down again as Immigration New Zealand’s online application system crashed, says National’s Immigration Spokesperson Erica Stanford. “The Government and the Immigration Minister seem be making a habit of damaging the reputation
While people at home and around the world have been gripped by the spectre of Australians having their freedoms stripped away in the name of covid, another, more insidious cancer has been eating at Australians’ freedom, with barely any comment. That cancer is the raft of legislation passed by the
Andre Bothma sovereignman.com Hailing from South Africa, Andre is a seasoned marketer with extensive exposure to the Residency and Citizenship By Investment (RCBI) Industry. He writes extensively on retirement and passive income visas (including the D7 and Non-Lucrative Visa), Golden Visas and Citizenship By Investment programs. During the past
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org Activists reportedly bullied Facebook into discriminating against white people and men. At the same time, the platform is selectively protecting certain groups of minorities, a Washington Post story indicated. Activists infamously pushed the idea there is no such thing as racism against white people, but now,
Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Last week I and my Rural Caucus Colleagues Louise Upston and Maureen Pugh called out the Government’s abysmal, and frankly unacceptable neglect of rural New Zealand’s connectivity needs. It is ridiculous that tens of
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says technology will create exciting careers and higher paying jobs and has the potential to transform the New Zealand economy. The National Party has today launched an issues paper entitled Growing the Technology Sector as part of its Big Fixes plan to develop solutions
Bree McEwan University of Toronto Bree McEwan is an associate professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology where she researches the intersection between interpersonal and communication technology. In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was
Jason Jaskolka Carleton University Dr. Jason Jaskolka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Cyber Security Evaluation and Assurance (CyberSEA) Research Lab at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. What would happen if you could no longer use the technological systems
Alfred Moore University of York Alfred Moore works on political theory, and has published widely on deliberative democratic theory, the politics of expertise, epistemic democracy, and is currently working on anonymity and publicity in democratic politics. The ability to remain anonymous when commenting online is a double-edged sword. It is
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Giovanni De Gregorio University of Oxford Giovanni De Gregorio is a postdoctoral researcher working with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Within the framework of the ERC ConflictNet project, His research focuses on content moderation and artificial intelligence; hate speech and disinformation
Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years children who have been through our Mt
