{"id":20770,"date":"2019-03-19T20:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=20770"},"modified":"2019-03-19T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:59:40","slug":"censorship-kiwi-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/censorship-kiwi-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship, Kiwi Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NZhalfmast.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NZhalfmast.jpg 980w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NZhalfmast-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NZhalfmast-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/>\n\n<figcaption>The national flag of New Zealand flies at half mast after Friday&#8217;s mosque attacks in Christchurch<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNew Zealand police are warning citizens they\u2019ll face 10 years in prison for sharing the Christchurch mosque attack video, and a host of websites have been blocked as censors scrub the shooter\u2019s manifesto from the internet.\n\n\n\nVideo footage of killer Brenton Tarrant\u2019s shooting spree at a Christchurch mosque on Friday \u2013 which left 50 worshippers dead \u2013 was pulled from Facebook immediately after the massacre. With the footage proliferating on several hosting platforms afterwards, the Kiwi authorities have already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/454078-man-arrested-mosque-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged<\/a>&nbsp;an 18-year-old man for sharing the video, as well as for posting other&nbsp;<em>\u201cobjectionable\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;comments days before the shooting.\n\n\n\nThe teenager faces up to ten years in prison, under New Zealand\u2019s \u2018objectionable and restricted material\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dia.govt.nz\/Censorship-Objectionable-and-Restricted-Material\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">laws<\/a>. Police have meanwhile issued an overt threat to anyone else looking for the video.\n\n\n\n<em>\u201cDo not download it. Do not share it. If you are found to have a copy of the video or to have shared it, you face fines &amp; potential imprisonment,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;read a statement from the police via local news source Wellington Live.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police are warning citizens they\u2019ll face 10 years in prison for sharing the Christchurch mosque attack video, and a host of websites have been blocked as censors scrub the shooter\u2019s manifesto from the internet. Video footage of killer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/censorship-kiwi-style\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20774,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions\/20774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}