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posted by FatPhil on Friday March 29 2019, @09:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Think-what-you-like dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Saturday March 30 2019, @08:25AM (5 children)

    by deimtee (3272) on Saturday March 30 2019, @08:25AM (#822267) Journal

    shottie: n. sl. A shotgun.
    There are way too many foxes in Oz. The bloody poms let them go in the 1830's so that upperclass twits could go charging around with horses and hounds like back in ye merry old england. They bred just about as fast as the rabbits and both are considered shoot-on-sight vermin.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @10:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @10:55AM (#822286)

    Tally-ho's! Ok, shottie for the bunnies, foxes, bandicoots and wombats, the Bufo toads, Poms, and drop-bears. Not to mention the Taipans and the Marsupial Lion.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @11:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @11:39AM (#822298)

      Foxes and bunnies and bufos definitely. Bandicoots and wombats and taipans and dropbears will get you locked up for a long time. Poms are a bit iffy. Nobody likes them, but you're still not supposed to shoot them.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 30 2019, @03:05PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday March 30 2019, @03:05PM (#822368) Journal

    Trying to hit that damn bandicoot as it goes whizzing by in its souped-up go-kart is a chore, let me tell you. One time it even fired a freaking missile at me! And it brings an entire zoo of its friends, *also* all burning rubber, right behind it. I'm pretty sure I saw a polar bear in that lineup. You can't tell me that's natural.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 30 2019, @03:18PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 30 2019, @03:18PM (#822374) Journal

    both are considered shoot-on-sight vermin

    The poms and the twits?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @02:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @02:59AM (#822589)

      Sadly no. It's the bunnies and the foxes.