The Herald’s censorship regime

The NZ Herald published an article about David Seymour responding to critics of the Treaty Principles Bill.

It was open for comments and there were 169 comments made. But the Herald then turned around and deleted every single comment, and locked it so no more can be made.

Fortunately someone took screenshots of them all. As you can see there were not obnoxious racist comments. They were mainly people backing Seymour.

I’ve read all 169 comments, and remarkably few would breach normal civil discourse. the Herald could of course have just deleted or hidden that tiny minority, but instead they deleted all 169 comments, including the ones which strongly backed Seymour and had the most upvotes.

And they have the cheek to demand the Government bail them out and force Google and Meta to fund them!