NZ is going off the deep end with censorship

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[–]Greedeater 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

promotes or encourages criminal acts or acts of terrorism

https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-Objectionable-and-Restricted-Material

This would be their angle I'd say. Still, their law doesn't apply to the rest of the world so their requests are a bit pointless. The photo of KiwiFarms response seen earlier around here pretty much sums up my thoughts there tbh.

[–]Trans_Girl_Crying 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

promotes or encourages criminal acts or acts of terrorism

Which is decided by them of course...

[–]FormosaOolong 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This is the ugly core of it. "Objectionable material" equates to "whatever we can use to put you away if we don't like you."

[–]Greedeater 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Eyup, that's how they screwed us over in Eddit too: Interpretation is key apparently.

[–]GENUINE 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

promotes or encourages criminal acts or acts of terrorism

This was what I took from the video's censorship, and also why I didn't understand the controversy behind it. Why is it such a big issue that people aren't allowed to see/distribute the video? Is it that attitude where being told what you can't do pushes you to rebel?

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Hurr durr lets censor the internet!

[–]CherryPieNTheSky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the NZ government is overreacting.