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Showing posts with label Hate Speech Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hate Speech Law. Show all posts
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Suze: NZ Muslims Are Yet to Object Publicly

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It’s one and the same for fringe minorities seeking public affirmation through exploiting great chasms of tolerance embedded in our Christia...
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Friday, January 13, 2023

Bruce Logan: Compulsory Hypocrisy

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Let me declare myself. I am an orthodox Christian who welcomes criticism and satire, even ridicule of my faith. I welcome them because they ...
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Friday, November 25, 2022

Bryce Edwards: Why Labour capitulated on hate speech laws

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The Labour Government is currently fighting on multiple fronts that threaten its popularity in the run-up to next year’s election. Therefore...
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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Jonathan Ayling: A win for free speech

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  Hate speech laws are a fool's errand that make things worse Time has been called on overhauling ‘hate speech laws’ in New Zealand. Aft...
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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Bryce Edwards: A Culture war over hate speech and free speech is unlikely

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Sunday’s announcement by Justice Minister Kiri Allan about forthcoming legislation on hate speech has sparked concerns that the country is h...
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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Bryce Edwards: Labour’s sensible taihoa on hate speech law

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The Government has delayed the introduction of its fraught hate speech law reforms, and there’s strong speculation they’ll remain on ice unt...
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Sunday, March 6, 2022

NZCPR Newsletter: Lessons for New Zealand

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The shock invasion of the Ukraine serves as a grim reminder of the fragility of freedom and democracy in the face of powerful totalitarian a...
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Friday, August 6, 2021

NZCPR Weekly: Attacking Free Speech

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we examine the disgraceful attack on seven university professors who expres...
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Thursday, August 5, 2021

Graham Adams: The thorny hate-speech debate sorts sheep from goats

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Former Labour MP Sue Moroney discovers the perils of offering simple solutions to a complex problem. Graham Adams argues that common sense i...
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Garrick Tremain: Hate Speech

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  Here is Garrick Tremain's cartoon commentary on Jacinda Ardern's proposed hate speech law!  
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Monday, August 2, 2021

Graham Adams: Kris Faafoi is too busy to discuss proposals for hate-speech laws

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The Minister of Justice appears to have gone into hiding. Graham Adams provides an update on how the public debate on hate speech regulation...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: The ‘Incitement of Hatred and Discrimination’ law change proposal - Humpty Dumpty let loose

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‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘ The q...
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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Lindsay Perigo: Comrade Ardern's "Social Cohesion" = Coerced Conformity!

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Judith Collins has joined the Free Speech Union. Oddly, she doesn't mention the fact in her Collins Comments of July 2, but she does say...
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Monday, July 5, 2021

Graham Adams: Is Ardern preparing her escape route from hate speech laws?

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The Prime Minister has seriously miscalculated the popularity of her proposed legislation. Graham Adams argues she may already be looking fo...
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Sunday, July 4, 2021

Chris Trotter: I understand why you want to do it, Jacinda – but don’t

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I UNDERSTAND WHY the Prime Minister feels so strongly about “Hate Speech”. The events of 15 March 2019 are seared upon Jacinda Ardern’s memo...
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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Tony Sayers: Rats in The Attic and Bats in The Belfry?

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Preface : In New Zealand, now illegitimately named Aotearoa, we enter a new era in journalism. I refer to the impending ‘ Hate Speech Laws ’...
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NZCPR Weekly: Muzzling Free Speech

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we investigate Labour’s plan to criminalise free speech and examine some of...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Derek Mackie: Don't you just hate that!

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Debate over the proposed Hate Speech legislation is raging at the moment. Even the mainstream media seem genuinely concerned because they ...
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Monday, June 28, 2021

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Do Ministers even understand the proposed hate speech laws?

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  I am more alarmed today by the proposed hate speech laws than I was on Friday when they released. Simply because it is now clear that key ...
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Sunday, June 27, 2021

Bob Edlin: Hate speech law consultation

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The government has declared its intention to make hate speech a Crimes Act offence and to increase the penalties for inciting hatred or disc...
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