Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Kyle: I could see your cheap shot, and raise you Willie Jackson and John Tamihere.
Certainly Tamihere, I don't know Jackson's work well enough to know if it's a decent standard or not.
But yes, gibbering idiot certainly can cross party lines.
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The target of Paul Henry's attack was Stephanie Mills, the one who works for NZEI? I filled in my complaint form and thought she might appreciate an email of supportive outrage.
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There doesn't seem to be a "The presenter was an asshole" category. This one is possibly the best?
6g Broadcasters should avoid portraying persons in programmes in a manner that encourages denigration of, or discrimination against, sections of the community on account of sex, sexual orientation, race, age, disability, or occupational status, or as a consequence of legitimate expression of religious, cultural or political beliefs...
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Sorry.
*goes back to sitting on hands*
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So you blacklist all child porn sites, offer absolutely no dedicated counseling for people who are into looking at child porn, it really leaves the potential pedophile no recourse but to leave the house and find a child...
You're saying that we shouldn't prosecute people who put child pornography on the web because people will then go and wait outside schools and molest our kids?
That didn't strike you as a slightly silly argument? By this logic we should hand out child pornography free to anyone who might be tempted.
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Dammit stupid parser!
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__I'll be prudent here and assume that the whole gibbering idiot thing is just an occasional on-air persona.__
He was National Party candidate for Wairarapa in 1999.
Well qualified then ;)
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But the censors office doesn't just say 'yes' or 'no'.
They say, 'yes - R18, M' etc. So there has to be subjectivity to achieve that, unless someone is going to make an incredibly unuseful list of what is and isn't allowed at each level, which then becomes time stamped and silly 20 years later.
Which would be slightly different on the internet, but I guess you could set levels in filtering software (I guess on or off is a level, but they might be more complex than that - child, teenager, adult).
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I presume that the censors office is governed by legislation (the er... can't remember what the Act is called now), and is largely at arms length from the government in terms of their decisions as a result.
Which would seem to me to be how you'd want this to work too. Obviously in other parts of the world it doesn't work too well, but we seem to still be able to maintain independence in some parts of the civil service here.
I think the censors office takes account of evolving sensibilities and changing attitudes as part of their consideration. To have a change of government suddenly make your movie/computer game whatever illegal would be foolish. Same with what you can/can't view on the internet.
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Sometimes we only lead the world in fucking things up.