Just as TDB is juggling the Police wanting to censor us for blogging against Talley’s (and Talley’s have now added TDB to their Court injunction against the Meat Workers Union as ‘evidence’), it appears that we might be the first blog prosecuted under the Harmful Digital Communications bill…
Tracey Martin Accuses Rolinson of Breaking New Laws
NZ First MP Tracey Martin has claimed Curwen Rolinson is in breach of the Harmful Digital Communications Act, passed in July. In a blog post, Rolinson, former leader of the NZ First youth wing, accused Martin of undermining party MP Andrew Williams.
Speaking at the University of Otago last week, Martin suggested that Rolinson was in breach of the law as a result of a blog post written on 6 July, four days after the Act was officially made into law.
“I’ve been working on the Harmful Digital Communications bill and what Curwen [Rolinson] did, what Whaleoil [blogger Cameron Slater] does, that’s harmful digital communications,” said Martin.
The Act states that a person is in breach of the law if they intentionally cause harm to someone on the internet. “A person commits an offence if the person posts a digital communication with the intention that it cause harm to a victim,” the law reads.
Rolinson made accusations last month in a post written on blogging site The Daily Blog. The former youth leader claimed that Martin spread rumours about NZ First MP Andrew Williams in an attempt marginalise him. According to Rolinson, Williams had been flagged as a likely candidate for the deputy leadership role following the 2011 election.
…so this new Harmful Digital Communications bill will be used by MPs to have a go at bloggers who publish things they don’t like?
Hmmmmmmmm. So the Government have all the mainstream media in their pocket and now have the power to shut down blogs.
This is looking less like a cure to cyber bullying and more like a new power to do cyber bullying.
Its how most fascist government close down the opposition using the laws they conveniently just wrote. It is claimed Hitler once in power never broke any German law and look at the mess he created. We have a corporate fascist p.m. and a democracy that is only available, like the law, to the rich and influentiaL.
R.I.P New Zealand democracy and open speech
You know your blog has power when you’re being targeted by cyber fascism.
Malcolm Evans has a brilliant cartoon in today’s edition of TDB about censorship. Says it all about what’s happening, through (political?) interference in media at the moment. No words needed
Not censorship Martyn. Sanitizing for the public good. Keeping the masses minds clean and clear so we are able to concentrate on the important things, such as most glorious leader, puppy dogs, most glorious leader, the ABs, most glorious leader, Richie McCaw’s next honour and the like. And did I mention praising up most glorious leader?
Coming soon. It will be illegal to say anything negative about NatzKEY, TPPA, Serco, Police, Talleys, Hosking, Henry, Gower, sheep deals, wealthy Saudis, Murray McCully etc!
Must also keep in mind we can’t blaspheme online either, particularly if it involves most glorious leader and the rest of NatzKEY! Be warned.
Speaking of ‘you know who’, he is still a no show in Parliament! His absence seems to coincide with the ‘woolly animal’ saga, going back to July. Almost two months now. Can hardly be stood down if he’s not around, pending an inquiry into ‘you know what,’ can he?
Shhh ! You’ll upset Moonbeam
No free speech anymore,and Key has proved hes on the side of corporations,well we all knew that.
If the Governor General did his job Key would be out,any leader who makes the rules to suit himself and cronies is a dictator.
THIS ….has gone far enough with this odious little psuedo ‘ PM ‘.
THIS is fascist Germany of the 1930’s.
Instead of burning books … they censor public opinion.
Communist states do the same.
Fascist state’s likewise.
The American Constitution contains a clause that enables the citizens right to bear arms. That right was not included as a self protection against each other but as a deterrent against the rise of an oppressive government. A militia. They were prepared to form a militia against an errant and oppressive govt.
It is amazing that right back then they knew only too well about oppressive European monarchy’s and govts – and planned and provided for accordingly.
Now we are headed towards the first steps of that oppression. The curtailing of the democratic right to express an opinion.
You know one thing I admire about the Americans is their rugged adherence of the right to free speech. They have that saying ” I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it ”….
And THIS ….demonstrates perfectly just WHY the Americans thought this way.
New Zealanders , …the things that have been going on all this time under this ‘PM’ key …..are now reaching a crescendo. There has NEVER been …a more dangerous and anti democratic PM in this country ever before compared to this character.
He must go.
With no ceremony . No accolades. Just an unceremonious dumping at election time 2017.
Vote accordingly for the preservation of this country’s democracy.
Before that surely,anything could happen before that.
I agree with everything you say except the voting bit. People are starting to wake up to this elitist oppression, however if you think it will be any different under another party I’m sad to say you are mistaken. There is no democracy, only the illusion of democracy.
I really wish that wasn’t true.
Actually the bill is working well. It aims to prevent harmful communications. In the National’s government’s jaundiced view – any communication that criticizes the government or its rich mates is instantly harmful – so the bill does exactly what it was intended to do. The problem was that most of the sleepy hobbits didn’t know that was the intention. They thought of harmful being the old fashioned sense of the word so they kind of imagined that harmful communications meant things like bullying, threats, child porn, etc., not opposition to the government. Oh my you stupid sleepy hobbits! We tried to tell you but you didn’t listen! Shutting down the opposition blogs is the first step. Soon our free press will be as free as China’s.
Wonder how the establishment apologists will spin this one on freedom.org.
Put on your gummies, here comes the Rubicon !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon
This might sound silly. No, really.
I said to no one in particular, probably myself, or perhaps my dog or the three gold fish my lovely ex female human left me with … that what we need is a good , old fashioned CB radio system just ticking away out here . All breaker, breaker can you hear my ten four good buddy etc.
My deep and secret fear with regard to the Interweb is that if it’s so great and amazing , as it is of course , then how terrible would it be if it were to be removed suddenly. Even the thought of that is too terrible to countenance .
What a weapon then? Something so good , that life is unimaginable without it. Sounds like air, or a heart beat doesn’t it ? Lure people out, listen in , learn , make a plan , then SNAP ! Jesus ! I just freaked me out !
Opposition Parties now need to meet in a emergency forum to discuss how they can combine place a court injunction to have half the state owned media RNZ & TVNZ over to them for presentation of their policies and daily public presentations of the state of the Nation and the Government activities this now needs to be done, TO PRESENT A MADIA THAT IS FAIR AND BALANCED.
SO OPPOSITION BEGIN TO PREPARE THE SECIONING OF THE PUBLIC MEDIA FOR YOU TO PROVIDE MEDIA BALANCE PLEASE FOR OUR SAKE.
it means the pm can lie through his teeth but we mustn’t comment on his lies of which there are many.
The Daily Blog will not last long under the Key regime, it is a wonder Bradbury hasn’t been imprisoned already.
When that happens, I guess I’ll be sharing a cell with the comrade…
Or hunkering down in the Ureweras with the Aotearoan Resistance Front (unit 42).
WELCOME AT OUT RETREAT ANYTIME MARTYN, FANK, NICKY, JOHN MINTO AND ALL.
‘Smith’s Dream’ or ‘Sleeping Dogs’ come true.
Actually i am not so pessimistic….We armchair activists will probably finally get off our bums and away from our computers and go out and do what they did last century and before in the Labour and human rights movements
,..ie take to the streets, general strikes, 1968 marches for education ( like the French)…marches for everything, human rights , housing for New Zealanders. New Zealand for New Zealanders, marches for the environment, anti war, anti corporate control , pro-democracy marches…pamphlets, posters , new worker newspapers, community meetings, soap box speeches
Actually if internet freedoms are taken away this may unleash something else…this could be the beginnings of something BIG and positive…a new sense of community and action
I guess it’s time to reserve a couple of overseas domain names…
In all seriousness, this is not what the Harmful Digital Communications bill was intended to achieve.
Any politician who attempts to use this new law to silence critics will not come out of this looking good.
It’s happening in the UK and on the Continent and will now start here.
When it’s all over and hasn’t turned out well for the banksters and their One World Order, I wonder what jonkey’s excuse will be …. wasn’t my idea “they” made me do it. Yeah right.
I knew that day would come. So here we have it. As for Tracey Martin, come on, get a life, please.
Good idea the Daily Blog could work out the Urewera’s in conjunction with the International Terrorist Network headed by Tama Iti.
I am guessing he has links to Al Jazzera for broadcasting purposes.
I’ll be voting for Gareth Hughes and Julie Ann Genter as leaders of the Greens next time as they had the nouse to vote against the Bill.
But the majority of the Green’s MP’s voted for it.
Hmmm…
I know exactly where I would like to stick my Harmful Digital Communication…
Beware of angry proctologists!
Maybe we should carry on as before,write what we like,this bill is intended to silence dissent, well we need to all write enmasse,be honest about our views,we need to support the TDB and Martyn .
Why should we be silenced to suit John Key,he will carry on making more and more laws to suit himself,until we are silenced completely.If we don’t stand up to him now, when will we?
Nothing to fear except fear itself.People in other countries fear their leader to an extent that that leader gains more and more power to control ,its up to us to be non compliant.
Well how many times do I have to call kEY an ARSEHOLE ?
I’m happy to keep on doing that .
I’m ‘ comfortable ‘ with that.
Yes.
Very .
kEY – your a complete ARSEHOLE.
See that ?…yes …. your an ARSEHOLE.
Gee that felt good.
I’ve decided on (Tur)key and the (G)nats 😀
Anyway, down to serious business … best to watch what you say on Facebook, too. Spies and all that jazz:
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?67702-Zuckerberg-is-David-Rockefeller-s-Grandson%21-Clinton-greatgrandson-of-JD-Rockefeller
Just gets better and better 😀
Co-incidence that Google’s new holding company is called Alphabet, which is the same name as the U.S. top secret ABC Agencies? Probably not.
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