National has introduced a bill to ban under-16s from social media platforms, with both coalition partners set to vote against it under the agree-to-disagree clause.
The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill requires platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook to check every user is aged above 16, with fines of up to 10% of global revenue. Messaging and calling apps WhatsApp and Discord are excluded, along with sites such as Roblox, Spotify, LinkedIn and ChatGPT.
Under the Bill, social media platforms must use verification methods such as facial age estimation, digital ID services or formal ID. Self-declared dates of birth are not enough on their own. The Bill does not address how platforms determine a user is under 16 without first establishing the age of every user.
Department of Internal Affairs officials confirmed in February that digital IDs could be used for online age verification, including on social media platforms, though National insisted the IDs would not be mandatory.
Education Minister Erica Stanford said the bill “doesn’t just introduce a minimum age requirement”, it “creates an enduring framework that can evolve alongside technology”. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon claimed evidence from Australia showed age limits were “already changing behaviour”.
However, three months into Australia’s ban, its eSafety regulator found that 81% of under-16s were still using social media, a decrease of only 5% from the 86% before the ban.
Citing Australia’s “colossal failure, “NZ First warned the ban could not be enforced without banning VPNs or using a digital ID that everyone would need to gain access to the platforms, and that enforcement would lead to “some sort of soviet era outcome” guaranteed to strip New Zealanders’ freedoms and privacy. Peters said on X: “We will never support the introduction of digital ID”.
ACT leader David Seymour said National had “hitched their wagon to a terrible solution,” warning “the ban they propose won’t work, and the side effects will leave us worse off.”
The bill will need Labour’s support to pass. Parliament rises for November’s election in four weeks, making passage before then unlikely.
Read more at NZ Herald, 1 News and see Winston Peters on X, Christopher Luxon on X, Joshua Riley on X, Holyhekatuiteka on X, Redbaiter on X and RCR’s interview with David Seymour on X.
Listen or watch more on RCR: RCR has warned for four years that age verification creates the infrastructure for universal digital ID and erodes anonymous internet use. Explore our extensive content on this topic on our Digital ID topic page on the RCR app including recent interviews with Joshua Riley and Judge David Harvey and the Free Speech Union and keep an eye out for an update to our Say No To Digital ID campaign page.
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National are well and truly “toast” this election. I don’t like labels but no one could accuse me of being on the left. This is yet another example of dystopian of legislation NO ONE asked for. Nationals key failure, “arrogance” and an unwillingness to “listen” or “change”. Labour are no better. Lets see them both out of Parliament this election.
Several teens have already got VPNs to get around such restrictions
You watch they will try to ban VPN’s next. They are essentially banned in China but people keep churning them out each time one or more is banned. Futile effort but that surveillance state wont build itself!
Communist National and Labour uniparties
More Fascist, union of state and big corporations but yes much the same outcome as the USSR or CCP.
Vote for the New Zealand Loyal Party, the only party that has a plan to deal with this problem!
But the boomers will still vote for them because “otherwise Labour will get in” and “best to change the party from within”, yeah right.
It has the fingerprints of a Mossad Op or a Whale Oil concertation….
The boomers that I know are now seriously looking at either the Freedom Party or the Loyal Party…with most leaning towards Loyal now that they are re-registered and the leadership is being persecuted, prosecuted and de-banked by the Uni-Party and the PTB!
NEVER VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE OR POLITICAL PARTY THAT HASN’T BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED, AND BANKRUPTED WITH LEGAL FEES FOR STANDING-UP TO THE ZIONIST GOVERNMENT(S) FOR DEMANDING THEIR FREE SPEECH, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, AND DEMANDS FOR GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY!
The ONLY political party that meets that criteria is the New Zealand Loyal Party!
While the New Zealand Freedom Party is gaining status and recognition after reorganising, how many of their members are facing 14 years in prison for exposing a fake video of the Christchurch Massacre? How many of their members are bankrupt due to bankrupting legal fees? How many are addressing the corruption? Why hasn;t the Freedom Party discussed the 1% Transaction Tax? Why hasn’t the Freedom Party (which started out as the Outdoors & Freedom Party, advocating for conservation causes and sustainable hunting & fishing..) even registered one single complaint regarding the stifling and suffocating firearsm legislation?
Noteworthy is that the Freedom Party has a lot of lawyers, solicitors, barristers, attorneys, etc. in their party officer ranks, and are never prosecuted nor persecuted in the way that the NZ Loyal Party is…!
TOP is a Communist minion, with a leader ‘Q’ who is actively working with China in her role at KPMG & B-Lab…
ACT (Abuse Children Tomorrow) is a Zionist party that has a large J3wi$h constituency in it’s electorate…
Most ‘Ethnic Political Parties’ want to raise your taxes & rates and then pass the gain onto their own entities…
The Green party has always been Red, using Communist Ideas and subtle platforms to enact unaffordable taxes for ‘environmental protection’…
Many NGO’s are actually running these projects and funding the lobbies that demand law changes to suit and match the WEF / WHO / NWO / JWO Zionist ‘Global Order’!
https://noahideworldcenter.org/pages/congress
& if you don’t comply with Noahide Law & it’s intrusions, the following is being planned-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNv9ipjU5Pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv_z5nyggJs&t=91s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rMZlI_pB3Y
https://jewtruth.com/video/thevideofreemasonrydoesntwantyoutoseefemadeathcampexecutioners/#307
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/us-capitol-guillotine-man-arrested
Wow that took a lot of working out, did they adopt the globalist blueprint by any chance, Luxon is a tool just like his opponent Dimkins.
DOA
In lockstep like the Convid 19 hoax.. Shows the Pagan Pollies are owned by the small hat, Ba,al Hats, nothing good is to come from this. They give us warm and fuzzy meanings for their Digital enslavement, ie Inversion it is… They have had 30x years of the Internet, why bring such laws in now. We know,, for their Greater Isis Ra El Project, November 2026 vote small or not at all to rid the Country of the remnants of the Satanite Army or contiuneu to be Enslaved. Jesus is king, Not Lucifer the Imposter….. PS Alea iacta est” eNd the Satanite Armies Worldwide…..
Looks like this is a half hatched idea and hasn’t been thought through
And invariably will end up needing the usual prescription of a band aid applied to a hemorrhage
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
That the Bill does not address how platforms determine a user is under 16 without first establishing the age of every user is a red flag for a start and leaves everything wide open to manipulation and abuse
In election year surely National could come up with something more important and useful to the benefit of the country than this which shows You they are out of ideas and running on empty
Just another reason that luxton is out of touch
NZ Social Media Ban: Erica Stanford On Protecting Kids From Big Tech Harms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HFYdOX-SEY
Understanding Australia
https://old.bitchute.com/video/MeFRfuenNnr3/
Luxon does not give a brown shit about teens. All he is interested in is identifying who wrote or forward on every single post.
Typical move from a political individual who does not want to be criticised for thier behaviour by the public.
Winston Peters and David Seymour can see throught this shadow little man. I bet Chris Hipkins, a man who allowed poison to be injected into our young teens will support this bill. So keen he will be to find out who is criticising his behaviour.
I haven’t seen the Bill, But I bet it will lay the groundwork for including posts on sites like Daily Telegraph.
People who bring forward the truth have been called many names. Keyboard warriors is one of them.
Luxon is going down. He has closed the door on himself. Ended all reason why such a terrible and dangerous thing to be allowed into our society. The freedom to criticise our leaders without consequence. Without arrest, without criminal charges and prison.
We have all seen this type of behaviour from prime a Minister’s before. Muldoon thought himself to be king. No democracy within his own party there. Is that what we are to think? No democracy within political parties?
I personally remind Luxon what happened to Ardern when she stepped over the line. That bitch has never taken accountability for her actions but she knows full well ain’t welcome in New Zealand society anymore.
If i am not mistaken, such actions by Ardern that result in harm and death are criminal even if they claim they didnt know. Hard to believe she didnt know when there were several hundreds of people camped out at Parliament and millions throughout NZ and the world.
I say cast Luxon out now before he destroys freedom of speech. National politicians must act against this incredibly unintelligent individual.
I have just seen a post from Hipkins on tick tok supporting this bill.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL NOT TO VOTE FOR EITHER NATIONAL OR LABOUR THIS ELECTION !!!
I don’t know if the Greens or TOP stamd on this. But I do now the Greens support Labour.
If you do, you will leave behind your freedom of speech online, Your face id will be your password and you will be financially punished using your social score.
How about we ban National and Labour
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon claimed evidence from Australia showed age limits were “already changing behaviour”.
Utter lies from the brainless WEF / UN puppet!
Is he really THAT stupid??
Obviously cannot read or understand ANY accurate reports on the subject.
Next thing he will probably grovel to the UN unbridled immigration / kalergi plan and open the borders to an avalanche of non white hordes.
Oh wait,
France, England, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden etc etc anyone?
Must be just about about due for another “Christchurch con” type of “incident” as well.
Can’t have the local peasants seeing what the puppet so called “government” is really up to.