on July 2, 2015 in World News
New Zealand Criminalizes Online Trolling To Prevent ‘Hurt Feelings’
Mind Your Manners: New Zealand Criminalizes Online Trolling To Prevent ‘Hurt Feelings’ by Simon Kent New Zealand is a country of almost five million inhabitants, some 29 million sheep and, on the evidence, plenty of hurt feelings. The latter has been tackled by sweeping new parliamentary legislation making cyber-bulling a criminal offence while guaranteeing the protection of people emotionally affected by online “abuse”. The Harmful Digital Communications Bill – as approved and published in the capital, Wellington – notes that the district court can of Tuesday force some websites to publish an apology, offer a right of reply by the… View Article
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