BSA Releases 2 Decisions
The Authority has not upheld a complaint that a discussion on Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley, about New Zealanders ‘snooping’ on their partners’ devices, breached the discrimination and denigration standard.
Following a story about a listener catching her partner cheating using his ‘find my iPhone’, the hosts made brief comments that “the gays should run a course”. The complainant considered this denigrated gay people and perpetuated a negative stereotype that gay people are sneaky.
In the context, the BSA found the comments were unlikely to encourage different treatment of gay people to their detriment or devalue their reputation.
This and other recent decisions can be seen here.