1,200 books banned in NZ
Been sent a list of around 1,200 books that have been banned in New Zealand. They were banned between 1963 and 1994 by the Indecent Publications Tribunal, and the vast majority are still banned today...
View ArticleInto The River unbanned
Stuff reports: The New Zealand Film and Literature Board has lifted the ban on Ted Dawe’s controversial teen novel Into the River. In a decision that was far from unanimous, the president of the board...
View ArticleCensor wants more powers
Stuff reports: The deputy chief censor wants the Government to put more options on the table for regulating online pornography. In an article for the censor’s website, deputy chief censor Jarred Mullen...
View ArticleDom Post on Wicked Campers
A rare good Dom Post editorial: The use of drugs by favourite childhood characters is likely to encourage impressionable young people to see drug use as funny and cool, the office finds. That is...
View ArticleCensor running out of money due to lack of porn
Stuff reports: The Censor’s Office was about to run out of money within three years. Chief Censor David Shanks said the Crown had not increased its funding over the last 20 years and in that time, with...
View ArticleBishop bill means no more book banning
Newshub reports: Books like Into the River won’t get banned anymore Parliament has passed a law change that will help avoid a repetition of the banning of Ted Dawe’s award-winning novel Into the River....
View ArticleGuest Post: Beating Censorsh*p
A guest post by Alexander Sparrow: We are being silenced. I am a centre-right comic. Views like mine – and yours, presumably – are censored in theatres in New Zealand. This cannot continue. We can’t...
View ArticleThere is no problem here that needs fixing
The Herald reports: The Government is exploring the possibility of making classifications for on-demand streaming services, such as Netflix and Lightbox, mandatory.Minister of Internal Affairs Tracey...
View ArticleGovernment does the right thing
Stuff reports: The Government will allow online video providers like Netflix to self-classify their content after officials warned providers could withdraw from the New Zealand market if a more...
View ArticleCr worried about library books
Stuff reports: Some books about the Treaty of Waitangi on the shelves of Tasman District libraries are “very right-wing extremist”, says Tasman District councillor Dana Wensley.Some material “that I...
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