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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 1d

New Zealands most subscribed far-right YouTuber made multiple videos spreading hate and disinformation targeting Doyle, one was was watched nearly 4,000 times. It would not surprise me if one of the viewers was this man who threatened Doyle

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Lee Williams and the problem of Stochastic Terrorism

What can be done about someone who doesn't directly call for violence, but spreads the kind of misinformation we know leads to violence?

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 14m

Nothing to do with the protesters, but left a notice on the house? I don't understand what burglar does that, but I guess we'll find out more next year.

Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 22m

I feel like some death threats meet that threshold, but alternative solutions for most online threats would be good - restorative justice, official notice from the police, meeting with an adult so you have to explain WTF you were thinking.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 3h

Agricultural lobby earned its money today: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Govt continues to go the wrong way on climate.

Government almost halves methane reduction target, farmers celebrate

Ministers describe their new goal as “science-based”, while Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the plan appears to be “cooked up by lobbyists” working for farming companies.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 8h

It's excellent work and I'll use it in my teaching and writing a bit (along with Carwyn Jones' excellent piece on free speech and tikanga).

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 10h

I gave a lecture about free speech, hate speech, and the FSU which quoted this book and your excellent blog on discursive ecosystems!

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 10h

Makes such a difference to your take home pay to not have it sliced off. Criminal that we tax knowledge accumulation like this.

Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 2d

Adding this to the list of state policing powers that are being extended under this government: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Fears of 'surveillance state', as police regain right to photograph public, retain images

An amendment to the Policing Act will allow police to collect and use images in public spaces.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 3d

no hybrid options :(

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 5d

No doubt she is on a contract rather than an employee, so losing her job for engaging in legal free expression will be legal. Cmon FSU, speak up.

Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 5d

She did not smash the window. She lawfully exercised her right to protest. She got the Kimmel treatment.

One NZ cuts actor from ads over protest at Winston Peters' house
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One NZ cuts actor from ads over protest at Winston Peters' house

The activist, who gave out the home address of Foreign Minister Winston Peters and encouraged other pro-Palestine protesters to join, is also one of the faces of One NZ’s advertising campaigns.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. I don’t object to property damage as a tactic (I’d struggle to justify damaging a private residence) but if this is an activist the timing is awful.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 5d

the government were warned about by multiple experts (and me) when they pushed through the boot camps: punishment doesn’t work.
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Iwi-led youth scheme outshines bootcamps in cutting reoffending

With only one in five rangatahi reoffending, Rangitāne’s Te Oranga Pai shows compassion and connection can succeed where punishment fails.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 5d

Derby doing some impressive contortions to bridge the reality of hate speech and the FSU’s fanatical approach to it.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 5d

Dunno?

Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

If it feels like the right to protest is under threat then this event is for you! Come watch Operation 8 and learn about contemporary threats to protest rights.
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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

Possible threats you are feeling include: proposed legislation to limit the protest outside houses, Independent Police Conduct Authority reports that propose the police being able to veto protest plans, and the government doing secret consultations to change how we define and ban terrorists.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

If it feels like the right to protest is under threat then this event is for you! Come watch Operation 8 and learn about contemporary threats to protest rights.
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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

Happy birthday 😀

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

Sure that's a valid response. I guess I'm contrasting your lawyer's perception of where this impacts lightly with my sociological one where it feels less concrete and more slippery (but still not a five alarm fire).

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

Protect Protest: Campaign launch and screening of the film Operation 8: www.facebook.com/share/1CvxGo...

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

ok :)

Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

I guess I'm suggesting it can be both limited in how it the courts interpret it and still have power. For every Morse and Booker there is hundreds of John/Jane Does who are facing state power without reaching the protection of the courts. We have to consider bills with them in mind as well.

Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

My point is that for this Bill, along with all laws, there's a big space between how the courts will interpret it and how that works in practice. There's a signal being sent here which police enact and they don't always have to be accountable to the courts or other safeguards.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

eg. a police officer threaten to arrest me and others for trespass from land over which he had no authority over (it was city council land, he was acting for Kiwirail). I pointed this out and he said "well you're welcome to apply that defence in court after I arrest you". We moved and he won.

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, but I think the distinction between what is prosecutable, and what the police can bully you into is an important distinction. Particularly given the consequences for their overreach are, at best, a gentle slap on the wrist, and the consequences for protesters are chilling or expensive at best.

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