New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern calls free speech on the internet a “weapon of war.”

This is a very dangerous individual. pic.twitter.com/9Gbv8xz2tu

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) September 28, 2022

Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald on the authoritarians who are now hellbent on stopping free speech and dissent online.

This is the face of authoritarianism – even though it looks different than you were taught to expect. And it’s the mindset of tyrants everywhere:

This is someone so inebriated by her sense of righteousness and superiority that she views dissent as an evil too dangerous to allow: https://t.co/kmG4zTgPwh

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 28, 2022

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Authoritarians are finally admitting that lockdowns do not diminish Covid outbreaks- they only produce increased joblessness, alcohol and drug abuse, depression and suicide, especially among kids deprived of school and structure. https://t.co/k3PIerhsHm

— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) October 4, 2021

The New York Times reports, “For a year and a half, New Zealand has pursued a strategy of ‘Covid zero,’ closing its borders and quickly enforcing lockdowns to keep the coronavirus in check, a policy it maintained even as other Asia-Pacific countries transitioned to coexisting with the viral threat.

On Monday, New Zealand gave up the ghost.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged an end to the elimination strategy seven weeks into a lockdown that has failed to halt an outbreak of the Delta variant, announcing that restrictions would be gradually lifted in Auckland, the country’s largest city.”

Read the entire story.

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