“Allowing the Government to dole out shares of the spoils to different media groups via a levy system – whether public or private companies – is no less dubious an arrangement than the PIJF deal proved to be.” – Nick Hanne
“Unsurprisingly, public confidence and trust are two of the first casualties when a culture of censorship is promoted.” – Nick Hanne
“There is a deliberate and often orchestrated attempt to filter out dissenting or independent thinkers at the professional level” – Nick Hanne
“The censorial approach we see eroding academic freedom and civil liberties often reflects the
insecurity of would-be-censors” – Nick Hanne
“The two Maori panelists had completely different views as to whether free speech values were indigenous or not…” – Nick Hanne
“The very public battle of the Free Speech Union (FSU) to uphold free speech rights at Victoria University Wellington (VUW) this past week is proving to be something of a litmus test for the rest of the country” – Nick Hanne
“…. I think drag queens reading to young kids in a public library is a really bad idea. But that is my personal stance and under the law insufficient reason to silence someone” – Nick Hanne
“To deny an individual their rights without demonstrating just cause flies in the face of centuries of natural justice.” – Nick Hanne
Would you personally feel justified in killing civilians, abducting children and threatening to behead them if your demands were not met?
“I have good reason to believe that by writing the following I am risking my professional registration as a secondary school teacher. That’s because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, things are getting pretty dicey in the workplace for supporters of freedom of speech. Why?” – Nick Hanne