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Re:Update on New Zealand by CharlesColeman on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:06PM (#19436551)
> Classified as illegal after the fact. You can't punish users for sharing a video that was retroactively declared illegal by a country they don't live in.

This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19435419), states that according to NZ law, the video was "born illegal." [1]

[1] term inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret

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Re:Update on New Zealand by ng12 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:37PM (#19436812)
That's why I said "retroactively declared illegal".
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Re:Update on New Zealand by CharlesColeman on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:44AM (#19442717)
I took the comment to mean that there's a set of criteria that makes all matching videos illegal from when they're created, not just from when an authority declares the video matches the criteria (which could just be viewed as confirmation).
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