This legislation is all about forcing a U.S. centric foreign policy on New Zealand, making it illegal to sympathise with anything other than the BBC or CNN official narrative. They will start harassing people at the airports and it will continue to get worse. Support for Palestine and Donbass are the targets here, but in the future SIS will go full McCarthyism over China. Once the government bans foreign media outlets, the next logical step is to ban anyone who operates independently as a journalist or activist, then the only views you will hear will be Israeli, Ukrainian or Taiwanese. Free speech, but only if you support the U.S. narrative. I look forward to battling SIS and defending free speech.
No doubt it will be abused, but I will find ways around it. Receiving news from state-sponsored media isn’t interference - I actively subscribe to it. A lot of Chinese people watch satellite channels, and I don’t think the government is going to start jamming them any time soon. State media gives people the knowledge of what those governments think, and people can act on that information independently.