Freedom of Speech

New Zealand columnist, Rachel Stewart, has been insulted on social media for mocking a statement by the Federated Farmers Waikato vice president who lamented “that the Environment Court can treat farmers worse than murderers and rapists”. [Rosemary McLeod, The Dominion Post, January 29, 2015]

One tweet about Ms Stewart’s views, presumably from a person with farming experience, suggested that the columnist should be “artifially inseminated by a bull that would need blinders on” – not nice at all.

But that’s freedom of speech.