{"id":371,"date":"2025-10-15T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:53:42","slug":"is-new-zealand-government-agency-now-about-to-smash-freedom-of-speech-in-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"IS NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT AGENCY NOW ABOUT TO SMASH FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN PODCASTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f840c825cc8f4d2a26087acb72de10b1\"><strong>This would have shocking implications for all media organisations in New Zealand and would seriously impinge on the rights of all internet users<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"163\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/protectinternetfreespeech-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/protectinternetfreespeech-1.jpg 163w, https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/protectinternetfreespeech-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foreign Minister is accusing the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) of &#8220;Soviet era stasi&#8221; censorship, following a decision to begin regulating podcasts and online media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Winston Peters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/winstonpeters\/status\/1978310795214897160\">posted on social media<\/a>&nbsp;saying it was &#8220;blatant overreach&#8221; by the BSA and &#8220;highly concerning&#8221;, and demanded an explanation for their &#8220;recent outrageous action&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Why does the Broadcasting Standards Authority think they can make up their own rules in secret meetings to act like some Soviet era stasi.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/576015\/winston-peters-accuses-broadcasting-standards-authority-of-soviet-era-stasi-censorship\">https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/576015\/winston-peters-accuses-broadcasting-standards-authority-of-soviet-era-stasi-censorship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--jh9Df3gp--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1750738434\/4K5B14E_250624_Winston_Peters_1_2_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"250624_bridge_war_Conflict\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would have shocking implications for all media organisations in New Zealand and would seriously impinge on the rights of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53],"tags":[60,61,62,63],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censored","category-corrupt-nz","tag-censorship","tag-internet-censorship","tag-nz-censorship","tag-nz-media-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}