NZ passes anti-free speech language compliance law
‘This is quite Orwellian’: NZ government introduces language compliance officers
New Zealand Labour, supported by the Greens, and Māori Party, have passed ‘plain language’ legislation, which will require all branches of government to employ language compliance officers.
The ‘plain language’ bill was approved by the New Zealand Parliament on Wednesday and comes into effect once the legislation receives Royal assent. Advocates of the new law defended the bill arguing, in sum, that a bigger bureaucracy was better for democracy. The language compliance legislation’s author and Labour member for Nelson, Rachel Boyack, told Parliament:
Jurist explained the ‘plain language’ law demands ‘all reporting agencies appoint plain language officers’. These are compliance officers employed by respective departments to essentially police the use of language.
Inspiration for the language compliance law came from an Obama-era legislation in the United States known as the Plain Writing Act of 2010.
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