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Peter Garrett “once had a penpal in Gisborne. There’s your Kiwi connection, so that’s it.”
OPINION/SATIRE: This week Facebook, helmed by Mark Zuckerberg, the apparent evil twin of Marvel’s Peter Parker – a passing-for-teenage man bitten by a radioactive spider but who instead of using his powers for good spins a worldwide web of dopamine-inducing likes, cat memes and fake news – locked tentacles with the Australian government. It was a battle described by commentators as “Wait, what – is coal-loving 2020 bushfire scarperer ScoMo the goodie in this? Give me a moment to process – I was just getting my head around Aung San Suu Kyi being a Nobel Peace Prize-winning hero, then a genocide-enabling villain, then a coup-deposed resistance hero again. Now this?”