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Free speech has potentially been taken down another peg in NZ with a woman arrested for a Facebook post about the Christchurch shootings. The woman has been arrested on suspicion of "inciting racial disharmony" after a message was posted to her Facebook page. She faces a maximum penalty of three months’ imprisonment or a NZ$7000 fine and living in a society that condemns free speech. However, given the recent ruling in Australia that 'Muslim' is not a 'race' she may get off given that the law she is accused of breaking is of one who “publishes or distributes written matter which is threatening, abusive, or insulting” to other people . This means that it may very well be legal at this time to insult people of a specific religion.
Decades ago they relied on neighbors to find subversives; now they just check social media.
[Ed.: The above is a paraphrase of the linked-to story, not a direct quote, and with submitter's editorialising left in. -- FP (honouring people's right to free speech ;-) )]
Also covered by the NZ Herald.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @11:07PM (2 children)
Yes, these are the very things that make it look like an inside job. Like the other responder said, They didn't want their super secret training manual to get leaked out. That "manifesto" is straight from the CIA's book on infiltration and sabotage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @11:40PM (1 child)
At what point is it no longer paranoid conspiracy theory to begin believing that these events are intentional? Perhaps not all of them--believing they all are would certainly be paranoid. "Never let a good tragedy go to waste" has been political SOP since forever. Shit happens, the world is imperfect, and even in a $fav_political_system utopia, I wouldn't be surprised if people still fell through the cracks.
What is a sufficient standard of evidence? What would that evidence look like, if we don't have it already?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Saturday March 30 2019, @12:56AM
It would look like evidence and not opinion, supposition, anecdote, or coincidence. How would you propose to test that it is otherwise, random until proven orderly and innocent until proven guilty? That's what makes conspiracy theories theories and not proven facts. TLDR: No, a conspiracy doesn't just have to exist.
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