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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @05:43PM (1 child)
if you won't fight it while it's easy i doubt you'll fight it when they turn the heat up. that's the point of the whole method. it's not that you don't notice. it's that you are weaker to resist. you shouldn't need permission from a fucking thieving piece of shit to own a firearm or speak your fucking mind. fight now, while you still can.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @01:04PM
If you say anything against the kebabs you are labelled a racist and an "islamophobe".
So, don't. State that you are against organized religion. That you sincerely doubt the sanity of anyone who believes strongly enough that they would harm others for their religion.
This is not hate. It is not illegal, yet, not to like or support everything any everyone.
I have been asked why I am against them. The answer is simple. They would end my life if they could. I do not fit in to their religion. I will not kowtow to them. So we are debating my existence, my life, which these people would end. If asked for proof I tell people to read the koran and watch islamic state videos and read the news about who muslims have killed or disfigured this month.
The main difference between Christians/hindus/jews/etc and muslims is that I have no doubt that Christians etc will not kill me for disagreeing with them or refusing to join them. The same cannot be said for islamasists.