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These "Legally censored - Redacted" lines now replace headlines over two Daily Blog editorials published prior to today's Auckland District Court hearing
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New Zealand Herald's editor-at-large Shayne Currie's "Media Insider" column

‘I am now legally censored from even talking about being censored’...

August 4, 2026
NZ's Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker’s ‘double standards’

August 4, 2026
These "Legally censored - Redacted" lines now replace headlines over two Daily Blog editorials published prior to today's Auckland District Court hearing

Gagged NZ editor’s ‘free speech’ case adjourned as judge warns Daily...

August 4, 2026
A lack of scrutiny and action from the international community, including New Zealand, is allowing illegal atrocities to continue in Gaza

NZ’s shameful silence on Gaza is potentially complicity with genocide

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The Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury

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