12-06-2022, 03:14 PM
And today even a former National party minister is also saying that it won't work.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...-headlines
As the MP for Whanganui, former National Party minister Chester Borrows introduced a bill to ban gang patches in the city.
His bill was a futile and ultimately ineffective measure, the former Courts Minister says, 13 years after the Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill was passed into law.
Borrows, who is also a former police officer and current member of the Parole Board, is now criticising his former party – saying its latest proposal to curb gang crime was designed for “big headlines” and would be mostly ineffectual in practice.
As gang crime re-enters the headlines, National is calling to outlaw the display of gang patches across the country – and it wants to go a step further, into cyberspace.
National wants to make it illegal to share or post content on social media which could be deemed pro-gang. National police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says a crackdown on social media could reduce the number of gang recruits."
That just won't work; they can't even manage to prevent racism online, or hate speech or trolls.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...-headlines
As the MP for Whanganui, former National Party minister Chester Borrows introduced a bill to ban gang patches in the city.
His bill was a futile and ultimately ineffective measure, the former Courts Minister says, 13 years after the Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill was passed into law.
Borrows, who is also a former police officer and current member of the Parole Board, is now criticising his former party – saying its latest proposal to curb gang crime was designed for “big headlines” and would be mostly ineffectual in practice.
As gang crime re-enters the headlines, National is calling to outlaw the display of gang patches across the country – and it wants to go a step further, into cyberspace.
National wants to make it illegal to share or post content on social media which could be deemed pro-gang. National police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says a crackdown on social media could reduce the number of gang recruits."
That just won't work; they can't even manage to prevent racism online, or hate speech or trolls.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)