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The “best and most secure Windows ever” set to empower Kiwis to do and achieve moreMicrosoft New Zealand announced today that the Windows 10 operating system is now available in this country as a free upgrade 1 to eligible devices, or with new PCs and tablets.Described as the best and most secure Windows ever, Windows 10 is unlike any previous version as it is delivered as a service, and will be kept automatically up-to-date with innovations and security updates via online download.“A new era of Windows starts today. From the beginning, Windows 10 has been unique — built with feedback from over 5 million fans, delivered as a service and offered as a free upgrade,” said Terry Myerson, executive vice president, Windows and Devices Group, at Microsoft Corp.“Windows 10 delivers on our more personal computing vision, with a natural, mobile and trusted experience.
Along with our partners, we’re excited to deliver the best Windows ever, which will empower people and organizations around the world to do great things,” says Myerson.Frazer Scott, Marketing & Operations Director for Microsoft NZ, says upgrading to Windows 10 is easy for New Zealanders running a genuine Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC or tablet.“As of today, Kiwis who have reserved their free upgrade to Windows 10 will be notified when their upgrade is ready to be installed. This free upgrade offer will be available for a year from today for qualified and genuine Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 devices,” says Scott.“In New Zealand, there are around two million PCs and devices running Windows. Most of these will be able to upgrade for free from today.
Video footage of killer Brenton Tarrant’s shooting spree at a Christchurch mosque on Friday – which left 50 worshippers dead – was pulled from Facebook immediately after the massacre. With the footage proliferating on several hosting platforms afterwards, the Kiwi authorities have already an 18-year-old man for sharing the video, as well as for posting other “objectionable” comments days before the shooting.The teenager faces up to ten years in prison, under New Zealand’s ‘objectionable and restricted material’.
Police have meanwhile issued an overt threat to anyone else looking for the video.“Do not download it. Do not share it. If you are found to have a copy of the video or to have shared it, you face fines & potential imprisonment,” read a statement from the police via local news source Wellington Live. ?New Zealanders threatened with 10 YEARS IN JAIL if they have the shooting video. ?'Anybody found “knowingly” in possession of objectionable material can receive a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.'
14 YEARS IN JAIL if you are a 'dealer' of the video — Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112)Under the objectionable material laws, corporations can be fined up to NZ$200,000 (US$173,000) for sharing the video or any related content. Unsurprisingly, New Zealand’s Internet Service Providers rushed to ban websites suspected of sharing the shooting-related materials since the tragedy. We've started temporarily blocking a number of sites that are hosting footage of Friday’s terrorist attack in Christchurch. We understand this may inconvenience some legitimate users of these sites, but these are extreme circumstances and we feel this is the right thing to do.— Telstra News (@Telstranews)Reports from internet users across New Zealand say that 8chan – the site on which Tarrant announced his attack and posted links to his white nationalist manifesto – has been banned. Social discussion service Dissenter has also been banned, as has content sharing platform Bitchute. In neighboring Australia, ISPs have reportedly banned “cesspool of the internet,” 4chan. Why did they ban liveleak in new zealand.
They won’t even show the christchurch video. Ironically they’re one of the better sites when it comes to deplatforming shit like that — dehd (@WienerLover39)Even the anti-establishment blog and economic news site Zero Hedge was roped in, and has been reportedly banned by some New Zealand ISPs. While the reason was not immediately clear, the popular anonymous news source has extensively covered the Kiwi censorship efforts in wake of the shooting and posted excerpts from Tarrant’s manifesto – but so did a host of other Anglophone media, including the Daily Mail, quoted in several Zero Hedge articles. Well I just turned on the VPN and Zerohedge is now available. So there we have it - censorship is in full swing here in New Zealand! — VOOM (@kylenz99)The 80-page manifesto – a violent invective against Muslim immigration littered with internet memes and 4chan insider jokes – has been scrubbed from multiple file-hosting sites, including Scribd and Pastebin.The crackdown extends beyond New Zealand too.
Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from entering Australia after the shootings, for a Facebook post in which he called Islam a “barbaric, alien” religious culture. Yiannopoulos had already been engaged in a protracted legal battle with the Australian government for almost a year to bring his controversial speaking tour to the country.
While in the UK, police arrested a man in Oldham on Saturday for alleged social media posts “making reference and support for the terrible events in New Zealand.”to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you.