Creeping Censorship

Yup. No censorship here 😊

So bring your friends and a wide range of views and enjoy the freedom of challenging & diverse views not being deleted!

Yep. I thought the contributions were relevant to the whole dissection and division of NZ consequent to the actions/inactions of the fairy princess and her cindy kindy and said so,along with others. The so called mods didn't like what was being said and canned the last few pages because they didn't agree presumably. .So if you don't like it don't read it OR disagree.That's called democracy, a rare and almost extinct phenomena in NZ as it descends into full blown dictatorship. .A remarkable acheivement in just 1 year.

Hah! To be honest I stopped looking at Crew right after I left a few weeks back. I was disappointed by one of the entire threads (think it was a marine covid thread) being completely deleted - a lot of people had investigated a lot of ‘emotional energy’ in formulating their various points so it felt quite confronting to have all that effort just disappear!

But being a free service you can’t complain - and so I didn’t even bother contacting the editor / owner / mods despite being encouraged to - because I thought, “why bother?”. The owners / mods have made their collective positions very clear and I try to never argue with idiots - they only beat you with their experience - so rather than complain I just left.

Hopefully we’ll continue to build an alternative little community here as more and more folks find us (or get driven away from Crew)…

my fave lefty, dr bryce edwards has some interesting things to say about this as part of a broader story he wrote before this lockdown

"The modern version of the left – what some might call the “woke left”, the “liberal left” or the “middle class left” – clearly has some very different ways of pursuing political change.
Largely it’s an elite top-down model of politics, reflective of the left being made up of the highly-educated stratum of society. They confidently believe that they know best.

This leftwing elite approach is very compatible with a more censorious approach to politics.

Whereas the traditional left has been the force in society that is most favourable to “free speech” and towards mass participation in politics, it’s now quite the opposite.

Traditionally it was forces of the right and the Establishment that clamped down on political expression and activity. Historically, the left has championed the rights of the oppressed or marginalised to organise, to communicate politics, in order to win human rights and political gains.

And this is why it’s somewhat surprising that increasingly the left want either the state or society to put limits on political debate and expression."

The rise of “culture wars” has been incredibly important for the political atmosphere that we are now in. Quite simply it doesn’t lend itself to debate and discussion

there’s a strong strain of sneering from many on the left – especially against those that are seen as socially backward.

The contemporary left also has a newfound mistrust in the ability of society to make the right decisions or to understand the world.

In an elitist way, many on the progressive side of politics view the public as being too uneducated or lacking enlightenment

What’s often missing from the debate is a concentration on the propaganda and lies originating from government departments, politicians and the Beehive.

What needs more focus is the fact that New Zealand now has many more public relations practitioners than journalists.

democracyproject.nz/2021/05/23/bryce-edwards-the-state-of-the-political-left-in-the-age-of-outrage/

the new left see the new enemy as; white, stale, males

and they expect to get flak from them, as that's who they're stripping rights from, while still expecting them to foot the bill for the mess that will be giving less capable people control

but this groundswell of street and park protests has caught them by surprise because it doesn't seem to be driven by the; stale, white, males 

but by the very people new labour see themselves as fighting for!

this rattles their sense of divine purity + purpose

so they're lashing out

not just the new crew owners at you and me

but MOST of the new left at anyone that dare question their half-baked decisions 

even the average highly respected nz wellington politcal journalists are pretty much all being snarled at now by jacinda's crew for daring to ask questions as press conferences

the likes of barry soaper are getting sick of being unable to do their job because the gov's new 'press wing' are doing everything they can to limit access to information and politicians

and if the journalist doesn't like the deflected and fuzzy answers they are given, they are told to use the official information act to get an answer

which gives all these new spin drs time to come up with more wordy but fluffy answers

we can see that in the ministry of healths refusal to hand over docs to the maori authority on vaccination rates

how is this ever going to get better going forward?

I have a $100  bet with a mate that she will step down before the next election.
At the recent Labour conference they changed the rules on leader selection and there are whispers that the murmurings of discontent within the caucus are starting to become louder. As the old saying goes, a week is a long time in politics, anything could happen between now and Christmas.