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 Saturday March 30 2019, @03:41PM
In all things it is important to see what the actions of individuals espousing said ideology really are. After all , the DPRK really isn't democratic and the soviet union had a bitchin constitution. Authoritarians of all stripes love to hide behind lofty terms. I've come to realize that many official titles in governance and large organization actually do the exact opposite of what they claim. So today's social justice warriors say they are for free speech and equality while mocking "freeze peach" and trying to get their in group into a position of dominance.