Strypey
activity timestamp 4 days ago

So ... let me get this straight. You can't ban an obviously dangerous for-profit activity that's already killed someone. That we leave to "personal responsibility".

But you *can* ban kids from using social media? Rather than leaving them and their parents to exercise personal responsibility over whether and how they use it. You can also maintain a ban on recreational use of cannabis, despite no evidence of anyone dying from it in thousands of years of use.

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TrevorN
activity timestamp 3 days ago
@strypey The rules are simple: anything which makes rich people more money may not be regulated; anything which costs rich people more money must be proscribed.
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Ika Makimaki
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"What’s at stake here is the ability of any future government to respond to the very real crises we face - climate change, inequality, biodiversity loss - without being tied down by legal threats, corporate claims and Seymour’s rigid neo-liberal ideology."

The dangers in the Regulatory Standards Bill
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360702161/dangers-regulatory-standards-bill

no-paywall:
https://archive.ph/frn43

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Ika Makimaki
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Regulatory Standards Bill submission guide from @greenpeace
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/submission-guide-regulatory-standards-bill/

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Ika Makimaki
activity timestamp last week
"What’s at stake here is the ability of any future government to respond to the very real crises we face - climate change, inequality, biodiversity loss - without being tied down by legal threats, corporate claims and Seymour’s rigid neo-liberal ideology."

The dangers in the Regulatory Standards Bill
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360702161/dangers-regulatory-standards-bill

no-paywall:
https://archive.ph/frn43

#NZPol#ToitūTeTiriti