New Zealand Judge bans online publishing of accused’s names
August 25th, 2008 by Michael Zimmermann
You heard it. Judge David Harvey ruled today that online media, and only online media was banned from publishing the names of two men accused of murder. His reasoning behind it was to stop online searches from turning up their names in the future, should the pair be found innocent.
Television and print are fine to name names, it’s only ‘online’ being singled out here, so questions come to mind as to how a scan of the newspaper would be treated, or a stream of the nightly news?
Read about the story online at the New Zealand Herald’s website. Apparently, you’ll have to go out and buy the dead-tree version, or tune into TV land to get the full story.
Tags: censorship, internet, new zealand, politics
