New Zealand, a country with a population of 3.5 million, whose indigenous people are Maori, has rarely been the source of important political proposals or taken the lead for global action.  However, in May 2019, its prime minister, 40-year-old Jacinda Adern, the youngest prime minister in the country for 150 years, played a central role in international diplomacy by initiating a plan to eliminate terrorist, hateful, and violent extremist content online and to stop the internet from being used for such comments.  She has entered the modern debate on how and to what extent government should exercise controls over large tech companies that can disseminate and have disseminated hateful content and misinformation, while preserving civil liberties. In its broader form, the issue of control has long been controversial, qualified, and open to judgment.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1949), Article 19, stated that "[e]veryone has a right to...(Read Full Article)