Trevor Mallard posted a cartoon at Red Alert suggesting that Kiwis may be afraid of “calling a spade a spade” – in case they are threatened with being done by defamation.

I posted a comment:

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This comment never emerged from “moderation”. Is it stuck there, or has it been censored?

Does Trevor Mallard think that anything he says is just “calling a spade a spade”, but anyone who actually does call a spade a spade may be silently censored by him?

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UPDATE: even less spade calling allowed. Before:

After:

That  “tough.Trevor” was to me querying what happened to my first post – it’s obvious now it was censored.

Trevor is trying to get sympathy for himself being able to call a spade whatever he wants, and then resorts to censoring and banning others who are speaking frankly.