New Zealand Bans Manifesto

[Yonadav]

This is wrong, wrong, WRONG.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic...d=12215573

Chief censor David Shanks confirmed the move on Saturday, urging anyone who had copies of it to destroy them.

Ok, because this material is objectionable, it is now unlawful to have it in your possession.

Most people reading the publication will not be harmed by it, the statement said.

"Most New Zealanders who have read this will simply find it repellent. But most New Zealanders are not the target audience. It is aimed at a small group who may be receptive to its hateful, racist and violent ideology, and who may be inspired to follow the example set by its apparent author."

That's REALLY not the government's place to decide.

'Whenever a government says "This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know", the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how noble the motives.' - Heinlein

Boru

I am pleased to see that this is your take on it. When I saw the title of this thread, I prepared myself to be offended. It is quite frankly unbelievable how frightened formerly liberal democracies are becoming of free speech. Illiberal democracies are springing up everywhere, and formerly liberal democracies are doing horrible slides into illiberal values.  Everyone has become so fucking convinced that everyone else is an idiot, that no one trusts anyone else to read anything that they might disagree with, as if the common folk are too dumb to process information that isn't screened by the state.