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: 4, Interesting) by deimtee on Saturday March 30 2019, @01:36AM (5 children)
I think the metaphor you are looking for is allergen.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @02:25AM (4 children)
That is an analogy not a metaphor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @02:59AM (3 children)
+/- 0: pedantic
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @07:29AM (2 children)
Are we sure it is not an allegory, or a simile? Perhaps a counter-supposal?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 30 2019, @02:23PM (1 child)
Could be a simile, or it could just be similac. Watch out - baby often pukes it up.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @11:08AM
Actually going one more up I think it might have been a counter-suppository.
This sig for rent.