New Zealand's centre right National party under John Key has made a lot of concerning moves regarding civil liberties, censorship, and the internet. A couple examples:
I view this bill as another attempt to control speech online with "cyber bullying" being just a useful phrase to push this sort of legislation through..
It's highly disingenuous to say that without also noting that this bill passed 116 to 5, and the most vocal critic came from the right side of the house. I oppose the bill as well, but we shouldn't pretend that National is solely at fault for it.
National has never really been a classical liberal party. Muldoon ran some of the most interventionist economic policy in NZ history, and Bolger and Shipley passed the Resource Management Act. In recent times only ACT has really been classically liberal, but even that is a bit shaky.
New Zealand's centre right National party under John Key has made a lot of concerning moves regarding civil liberties, censorship, and the internet. A couple examples:
Expanding the GCSB (NZ's NSA) to allow domestic spying http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Kim Dotcom's shakedown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Arrest_and_extradit...
I view this bill as another attempt to control speech online with "cyber bullying" being just a useful phrase to push this sort of legislation through..
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