The chilling of free speech, stage 1…
‘Kiwi man jailed for sending ‘disturbing’ Facebook video
A 28-year-old Nelson man has been jailed for sending a disturbing video to a woman via Facebook in the first prosecutions under a new communications act.
Aaron Stephen Tamihana of Richmond, near Nelson, was was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment at Nelson District Court on Monday.
Police had prosecuted him under the new Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 introduced in July last year….’
People do not have a right not to be offended. And there is no possible objective test of what constitutes “emotional harm”.
That this absurd and evil act was passed with almost no public resistance speaks volumes about the apathy of Kiwis, and their indifference concerning the loss of liberties. They’ll get the society they deserve.
UPDATE:
These are the kind of hysterical morons the act is supposed to protect. They now dictate what you may and may not say.
I watch societal change in the manner of a car driver who slows down at the scene of a gory traffic accident to do a bit of rubber necking and blame it on the drivers ahead who slowed the traffic to rubber-neck in the first place.
The rate of change is increasing, Mara, and something’s gotta give.
Every time I think I can muster sufficient detachment to simply observe the collapse, an item like the one this post highlights enrages me.
Zen-like calm is not an option.
I recall that when this statute was enacted there was hefty debate on Peter Cresswell’s Not PC blog. As soon as matters of taste are legislated the slippery slope emerges.
Good to see you, Cad.
Yep, Cresswell deserves some credit for that. The media were shamefully almost silent on it. (Well as far as intelligent analysis and debate were concerned. There were some cheerleaders for it, as I recall.)
I’m so pleased to be moderately not good looking enough to not send pics of myself with no clothes on to no-one. No one can be offended.
Isn’t funny, we thought we had to conquer leftie wimps with reasoned argument and debate, yet all that’s needed to make them retreat to a quivering pile of ectoplasm is the mention of Trump’s name.