This is a weird story to write given that New Zealand (of all places!) is slipping into authoritarian rule.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1251970727374467073 …
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Australia, New Zealand and even Canada have far weaker protections for civil liberties than American audiences think (to the extent that American audiences think at all). So much is just a matter of custom and tradition; when you look at the law, there is enormous latent power.
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Also the Lord of the Rings landscapes were unspectacular, the national dessert you stole from Australia doesn't taste very good, and a snakeless country is a joyless country. Just putting it all out there now.
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Sorry, what now? We’re just under 30min from announcements that will likely begin the easing back of the short restrictions on what has kept our hospitals from being over run and these announcements will be widely reported/analyses and commented on by our entirely free media...
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To be clear, the "heavy restrictions on the press" you're describing is that weekly newspapers and magazines can only publish online and can't be distributed in physical copies — that's it.https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/04/magazines-are-still-not-allowed-to-publish-and-still-can-t-understand-why.html …
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Except for the severe restrictions on the physical movement of journalists
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“Milquetoast”? Errr.
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Hi. I go for a walk most days. Zipped to the supermarket the other day. I'm a journalist and write whatever the hell I want. Why are you making up this crap?
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What heavy restrictions on the press?
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something something glass houses stones etc etc mumble mumble
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