New Zealand’s internet safety agencies took aggressive legal action against the Human Rights Commission (HRC) after it criticised social media giants for “failing to protect” former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from widespread online abuse.
Documents leaked to state media reveal that in October 2023, then-Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt accused X and Meta of allowing “misogynistic and violent harassment against Ardern”, including slurs and death threats. Hunt also condemned New Zealand’s online safety code as ineffective. In response, a barrister acting for Netsafe and NZ Tech attacked the HRC’s stance, calling its advisors biased and its actions unlawful. The agencies threatened to escalate the dispute to the Ombudsman and Auditor-General, arguing the HRC had overstepped its legal authority.
Despite being widely criticised as the most divisive Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history for enforcing race and medical policies that split society, Ardern became the subject of an intense online harassment campaign, which the HRC cited as proof that social media platforms were failing in their safety responsibilities.
The dispute intensified when Netsafe and NZ Tech dismissed complaints about bias in the online safety review group, accusing its members of having a predetermined agenda.
Hunt defended the group’s independence and condemned the legal threats as intimidating.
Critics of the online safety code, including Anjum Rahman, argued that the handling of Ardern’s abuse “demonstrated its ineffectiveness”, while Netsafe and NZ Tech insisted they had no power to intervene beyond facilitating complaints.
“So…I mean, I don’t know if this is how YOU see it, but some people have said it’s as if you’re creating a two-tier society…”
“That IS what it is. Yup, Yup…”
You’ll forgive me if I’m fresh out of sympathy for this poisonous demon and the HRC sycophants who are rushing to her defence. People rightly telling her to GFY does not amount to an “online harassment campaign”, merely a little thing called CONSEQUENCE (karma, just desserts, chickens coming home to roost etc).
It happens sometimes when you lock people up for months on end and ruin the economy and wreck their businesses and take their jobs and poison their children and push for new laws to silence them.
Maybe don’t do it next time.
Hunt, who previously worked for the United Nations as an “independent human rights expert” for over a decade, was obviously still taking orders from the UN/WEF, as were Ardern and co, who were masquerading as a “democratically elected government”.
The HRC should be shut down forthwith.
Is it better not to know what some people think?
Protect her. She should be jailed , exiled from nz.
The media was paid off tremendousley
What a farce. She should be hiding in humiliation
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Good idea! Protective custody….for life.
“Death threats”. Wishing death upon someone is not the same as threatening someone with death. But if someone were to actually threaten her it would be entirely justified, given the pain and suffering she brought upon our people.
I do wonder what she did to deserve such vitriol? (Sarcasm)
Ardern has never been a source of truth and since leaving NZ politics (like a rat leaving a sinking ship) and NZ for that matter, is no longer relevant.
Move on.
Anyone actually seen her lately?
Ouija boards are not allowed in my house 🚫
She should be jailed!
Come over to Gab
Say what You like
https://gab.com
Is any one listening?
Well if you kill a bueatiful country, what do you expect. She should just fo and leave New Zealand to heal.
DT! Do we really need to be reminded of that visage?
I almost lost my dinner!
How about the Human Rights Commission say something about the intense harassment campaign waged against the hundreds of thousands of Kiwis who didn’t want to participate in a genetic medical experiment? A campaign of abuse encouraged by Ardern’s government (e.g. ‘River of Filth’ comments by Michael Wood) and the mainstream media. A campaign of harassment waged by the powerful against the relatively powerless.
She started it.
This woman is responsible for so much division and damage in our country. She lied to our faces and censored people who were injured by a vaccine she told everyone was safe. She is now understanding the consequences. Don’t ever come back Jacinda you are NOT welcome EVER.
It’s fake but I love it:
https://x.com/janekzzzz/status/1616153953745371137?s=20&t=SluJkookc5dSWEfiiT0r_A
Great to see the HRC and Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt calling the Daily Telegraph NZ a social media giant. Must have read all the comments on Jabcinda Ardern’s abuse of the New Zealand people:
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/?s=ardern
Hunt? That Fabian political appointment imported from England? That Hunt? England seems to be a bottomless pit of vipers that have free access to NZ to f**k with us, are we still a colony?
BOTH HER AND HER FATHER SHOULD BE PUT IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT THEY DID.
Yeah, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. She/he ‘implied’ a rationalisation of our outdated and draconian laws governing the growing and production of medical herb, but instead we now have a complete backdown and 1924 type prohibition on herb while alcohol is freely available and more dangerous than a natural plant could ever be.
“I personally never wanted to see anyone criminalised for a herb” or words to that effect.
right.
‘She’ single handedly sank the cannabis referendum by not stating which was she was voting(she voted ‘yes’) prior to the referendum, as per Labor party cannabis policy, which, does not exist…which means, support for the status quo(prohibition) by default.
The creation of the new cannabis oligarchy whereby a tiny elite have taken over the entire cannabis industry is in accordance with Labor party policy: take from the many and give to the few.
We now have a situation in NZ, where DOPE and WEED causes immense harm(hence why it is illegal and people go to prison for growing or possessing it), but ‘medical cannabis’ as grown and pushed by the oligarchy, can treat the problems causes by the DOPE/WEED. All that was necessary for this to happen, was to change the name. So even if the DOPE/WEED as grown by dirty hippies was the exact same strain(Hindu Kush) as long as the oligarchy grow and supply the (herb) ‘medicine’, it suddenly heals rather than harms.
Rather odd of course.
Jail for dirty hippies, and Govt grants in the millions(Puro – $13 nmillion) for the oligarchy due to having friends in ‘high places’ if you’ll excuse the expression.
Many tens of thousands of hitherto subsistence farmers and suppliers of cannabis, are now unable to play any role nor make a few dollars to support themselves or their families. Thanks to the NZ Labor party. The implications of this massive transfer of wealth from the many to the few is massive, but alas we will never see any reports about that in any NZ main stream media who are similarly corrupt; just like the NZ Justice system.
Just the fact that 48.4% voting ‘yes’ to ‘legalization’ did not translate to immediate ‘decriminalization’, should tell you all you need to know about the crooked NZ Labor party who no longer represent the working class, but instead, an elite of the usual suspects.
Besides, the referendum was ‘non binding’ which in practical terms means, even if it passed(‘Yes’) the NZ Labor party could have simply ignored the result and handed the industry to the oligarchy any way.
Peter, really appreciate your comment. But let me make a couple of comments as well.
First: There IS a difference in psychotropic activity between CBD and THC.
CBD is short for cannabidiol, THC is short for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol.
One has apparently the medicinal goodies in it. The latter has the psychotropic values, which by many standards is also medicinal goodness. So, the individual should be able to make an informed choice.
Secondly: I voted ‘No’ because there are also several hidden aspects in controlling weed. It is in the realm of placating the masses so they are easier to herd. A bit like alcohol and rugby. Imagine there was no alcohol and rugby in NZ. The revolution would happen tonight.
Also, THEY wanted to control the sales (still criminalizing THC to have their lawfare revenues from the scam ‘war on drugs’ BS; the whole legal and policing racket makes millions from the punters), which would also mean of course surveillance and taxation. I am all for total decriminalization, i.e. anybody who wants can grow their own. But hey, to THEM that would be like anarchy.
Hope you can see my point.
Have a jolly vibed day.