‘Trigger words’: Kiwi MP says parliament screens his emails, urges inquiry

‘An MP in New Zealand is calling for an urgent investigation into why an email he was trying to send to a journalist was blocked. Labour’s Chris Hipkins was told he could not send the message because it contained “trigger words.”
Calling the episode “a clear breach of parliamentary privilege,” Hipkins, said it was “outrageous” that his emails were being screened.
“They have no right to be screening the emails being sent by Members of Parliament. It shouldn’t matter where I got the information from, they’ve got no right to monitor my emails in the first place,” Hipkins said, as cited by the New Zealand-based website Stuff.’
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