Daily review 19/08/2024

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  1. Tony Veitch 1
    19 August 2024 at 6:22 pm

    Luxon rising in popularity?

    What's wrong with this country? Are we really so shallow?

    • Muttonbird 1.1
      19 August 2024 at 6:42 pm

      At least he has today unequivocally killed ACT's racist principles bill.

      Would one of our intrepid reporters please ask Seymour if he is going to drop all work on this monstrosity because everyone hates it and it's not going anywhere.

      My understanding is that drafting the bill will use significant and apparently precious public service resources, so if the bill is already dead, why waste money on decorating the cadaver?

      • Tony Veitch 1.1.1
        19 August 2024 at 9:03 pm

        It will be interesting to see how Seymour reacts.

        He seems to have injected a lot of political capital into the bill – so its introduction into the House will be farcical to say the least.

        Is there any possibility Seymour will spit the dummy and withdraw from the CoC?

        Probably not, but he still holds a lot of power over a weak PM.

      • Muttonbird 1.1.2
        19 August 2024 at 9:18 pm

        The language has changed from, 'we'll support it to the first reading', to, 'we will not support it after the first reading'.

        This is the first time baldy has said that and it is significant.

        Because his handler, Jong Kee, knows that if this issue was to go further towards referendum, the full force of shady, wealthy backing would have a massive marketing effect on the democratic process. If it were to go to referendum it would be game over for Maori.

        National knows this so is taking the fight to Seymour now because if they wait to sniff the wind it will be too late. They know who ACT’s donors are. They are doing this to help prevent the mass demonstrations were decent Kiwis to feel that the racist principles bill was actually being considered by adults.

        Rimmer will be crying into his two bar heater tonight.

    • bwaghorn 1.2
      19 August 2024 at 7:03 pm

      Interest rates!

    • Patricia Bremner 1.3
      19 August 2024 at 7:54 pm

      No. I think the stats division needs to look at TV1 as well as Curia!!

      • Belladonna 1.3.1
        20 August 2024 at 9:52 am

        Interesting that there hasn't been a Talbot Mills poll 'leaked' since May. Perhaps the news is too bad to share…..

    • AB 1.4
      20 August 2024 at 11:50 am

      I wouldn't be too concerned TV. Looking at the numbers for "Preferred PM", there's one interesting feature. None of the individuals featured went down in popularity. They stayed the same or went up a bit. Luxon went up the most. The probable explanation is that a cohort of people who previously said "Don't Know" now think they do know. And most of them have picked Luxon, because he gets the most exposure and when they see him they say "that's Luxon", but switch off mentally before they get to realise what a laughable cookie-cutter clown he is.

      But the endless need for self-promotion at TVNZ means that they talk it up as something significant that's being brought to you 'exclusively' by TVNZ

  2. joe90 2
    19 August 2024 at 7:26 pm

    Quite the read from Carole Cadwalladr.

    .

    Just over four years ago, an insurrectionist mob found each other online, descended on Washington, stormed the Capitol and threatened the vice-president with a noose. But that was the good old days. We’re living in a different reality now. One in which the billionaires have been unchained.

    Because back in the golden days of 2020, tech platforms, still reeling from a public backlash, had at least to look as if they gave a shit. Twitter employed 4,000-plus people in “trust and safety”, tasked with getting dangerous content off its platform and sniffing out foreign influence operations. Facebook tried to ignore public pressure but eventually banned political ads that sought to “delegitimise voting” and scores of academics and researchers in “election integrity” units worked to identify and flag dangerous disinformation.

    […]

    Because while Kamala Harris is enjoying her hot girl summer and liberal America is sighing with relief, it’s to Britain that the US needs to look. To rioters in the streets and burning cars and contagious, uncontained racism spreading like wildfire across multiple platforms. To lies amplified and spread by algorithms long before the facts have been reported, laundered and whitewashed by politicians and professional media grifters.

    Because just as Brexit prefigured Donald Trump’s election in 2016, there are signs that we are again the canary in the coalmine. The same transatlantic patterns, the same playbook, the same figures. But this time with a whole new set of dangerous, unchecked technological vulnerabilities to be exploited.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america

    • Ad 2.1
      20 August 2024 at 9:10 am

      Cross-party legislation to regulate online social media platforms is perfectly possible in the US no matter who wins.

      Though to be properly set in concrete it may need 2 Supreme Court judges replaced.

      The recent action by the EU against Google, and by Brazil against X, shows a good solid movement against unregulated free speech being checked by anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws.

      There's plenty of scope for Starmer to do the same.