[Lurker]

“New Zealand’s chief censor David Shanks“

How very 1984.

L

[rllngrk33]

George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm were supposed to be cautionary tales, not how to books. New Zealand has now officially gone over to the dark side.

[TigersEye]

Who needs muslims when you’ve got fascists in the government?

[rawcatslyentist]

I actually watched one of the banned vids.

Hilarious!

Made the bomb magnet lady look almost believable.

[glasseye]

‘Wrong think’.
Yea, I saved it.

[marktwain]

Rolling Stone celebrating censorship they approve of.

[AAABEST]

They’re being charged with supplying or distributing objectionable material, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

14 years for "distributing objectionable material."

lol... wut?

[alexander_busek]

[...] an act that bans the dissemination of "objectionable" content, defined as content that [...] Of the video footage specifically, Shanks said, "every New Zealander should now be clear that this clip is an illegal, harmful and reprehensible record created to promote a terrorist cause. If you have a record of it, you must delete it."

Illegal to DISSEMINATE, or also to merely POSSESS? Which is it?

Also: Talke about overly broad prohibitions!

Regards,

[gaijin]

This makes sense.

Were the video legal and popular, NZ public attitudes might shift in a direction impeding full destruction of Western Civ there:

Things are still early in the incubation period in NZ.

The aim is for the two large Abrahamic Religions to destroy one another.

And then another group will be able to create Heaven On Earth, fiiinally get socialism right, now that they have the right people and computers, dance around the golden calf, etc.

[Sir_Ed]

I wonder if they have a guy named Winston Smith in the government archives, feverishly slaving away to make sure no unallowed truths slip out?

[puppypusher]

To think I would like to have moved to New Zealand if things continued to get worse in the U.S.

As bad as it is here it’s better than that socialist paradise.The people have No Rights.

[Gay State Conservative]

If it's jihadis...or jihadi sympathizers...doing it then 14 years sounds pretty lenient.If it's normal,respectable people then I'd lament the fact that New Zealand doesn't have a 1st Amendment.

I saw the video....it's breathtakingly cruel and gruesome.But it didn't make me wanna go out and do the same thing...or encourage others to do so.But then again I'm reasonably normal.

[Fedora]

Shortly after the attacks, New Zealand’s chief censor David Shanks issued a statement announcing that the shooter’s manifesto and footage had been banned under the Films Videos and Publications Classification Act (FVPCA) 1993, an act that bans the dissemination of “objectionable” content, defined as content that “describes, depicts, expresses, or otherwise deals with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of the publication is likely to be injurious to the public good.”

So does New Zealand also ban sex education films, Peter Jackson's early horror movies, and crime mysteries, then? Or do they just pull out this vague "law" when it suits them.