Critics slam under-16 social media ban as authoritarian overreach, warning it paves way for digital surveillance and universal online ID.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has ignited a social media firestorm after announcing that the National Party has introduced a member’s bill to ban social media use for children under 16.
In a tweet this morning Luxon stated, “We want to protect our kids from the harms of social media. That’s why today National has introduced a members bill to ban social media for kids under 16 years old.”
The announcement was quickly met with fierce backlash online, with critics accusing Luxon of being a “WEF globalist puppet”, and the government of using child safety as a pretext to introduce sweeping surveillance measures and infringe on civil liberties.
Many responses condemned the policy as excessive government intrusion into parental responsibilities.
One user wrote, “Absolutely not. This is up to their parents… How do you verify their age? We are not stupid.” Others raised alarms about the potential introduction of digital ID systems, suggesting the ban was a smokescreen for broader state control.
“Will this be linked in the future to CBDCs and a Social Credit Score? Every coin has two sides,” warned another commenter. Several referenced similar efforts in Australia, claiming such policies are part of a global push towards authoritarian tech governance. “This is power and control,” one said bluntly.
The criticism extended to National’s political positioning, with detractors accusing the party of betraying its principles. “You are the National Party, not the socialists or communists,” said one, warning against advancing what they viewed as a UN- and WEF-driven agenda.
Another warned, “Experiment with our democratic liberties at our peril.”
The proposed ban has clearly struck a nerve, with many demanding the government focus instead on empowering parents and regulating platforms directly rather than enforcing blanket restrictions on young users.
We want to protect our kids from the harms of social media.
That’s why today National has introduced a members bill to ban social media for kids under 16 years old. pic.twitter.com/TiQJs87DhQ
— Christopher Luxon (@chrisluxonmp) May 5, 2025
The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.
Section 14 Freedom of Expression
“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form”
They can simply re-write it to suit their agenda. Its not entrenched legislation, to start with, anyway. And it has an opt out clause, as we have seen from the big pharma ponzy scheme, known as the pandemic.
Suppose an ‘Under 16’ needs to contact their parent due to an emergency using ‘Social Media’???
Or..an adult…or the family lawyer?
& don’t these two look smug, arrogant and obnoxious in their photo above..!
Dumb-asses!!!!
Virginia Guiffre’s dead man switch has been activated, naming names, places, etc…
https://rumble.com/v6sxjth-virginia-giuffres-deadmans-switch-activated-i-have-been-murdered.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Can’t wait to see who’s who on this from NZ…(if any…).
Maybe they want the ‘Under 16’s ‘ to be banned from ‘Social Media’ due to the call logs that can be traced back to groomers and paedophiles..!
“regulating platforms directly rather than enforcing blanket restrictions on young users.” is a virtually impossible solution.
If Luxon was sincere about protecting citizens from the harm of social media, he would have stopped funding the corrupt MSM from his first day in office.
that woman couldnt talk fast enough from her script – the government doesnt care about children or adults – good god they tried to kill us all with the jab not along ago – untrusworthy.
they cant even do their own job that we pay them to do let along over-reaching & poking their noses into parents jobs or anybodys for that matter.
GOVERNMENTS ROLE IS NOT TO KEEP US SAFE
GOVERNMENTS ROLE IS TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS – bit of a joke isnt it.
they are our servants not the other way around !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wondered how long it would take for this dystopian crap to find its way here. No wonder Albanese is a mate of yours Luxoff. . Both communist WEF puppets. STOP TRYING TO CONTROL US. We know you want to install Digital ID. Take ypir digital ID and shove it up you know where. 🖕
Here’s a tip Chris – go back to the National party’s original principles. SELF RESPONSIBILITY. Stop trying to DUMB us and our children down to the LOWEST denominator who you also allow to sit on their arses and do NOTHING while getting paid to pump out children they don’t even want. I am disgusted at the National party and luckily stopped voting for them years ago. Just as bad as Labour. Machiavellian, Marxist self serving LIARS.
I don’t trust politicians , I don’t trust media, law, police, medical people, or any govt bureaucrats. Sold out bunch of self serving useless grifters who couldn’t feed themselves in a famine.
100 per cent correct.
The “government” (corporate construct) is the enemy of the people, always. It’s not left verses right, its collectivism verses individualism, period.
True…and have you tried to re-new or initially obtain a Firearms Licence recently, post the orchestrated ‘Christchurch Mossad Massacre’?
40+ pages, intrusive questions, etc.
Remember always- when the government fears a citizen having firearms, then it means that there are ulterior motives being planned by…GOVERNMENT!
The Uni-Party in action.
Next time, vote for the New Zealand Loyal Party. They’re over the target of corruption.
How do we know this?
Because the NZ Loyal Party has been de-banked; no NZ Bank will open a bank account for them to meet membership deposits, or maintain a campaign war chest.
The excuses are ‘anti-money laundering’ and ‘financing of terrorism’ laws that are applied to those who the PTB do not like or who the PTB perceive as a threat in several spheres, politics included!
The Luxon puppet thinks its okay for porn hub to stay though. What a traitor.
Too many GenZ’s beginning to lean too far right as the stats show.
They want ALL of the kids’ socialising to occur in the classrooms once again (where all the most dangerous ideologies are peddled at full speed).
I’ve taken a good long look at the village, I don’t want it raising my children
Its a law that cant be enforced, therefore why make it? unless its a means to another end, like digital ID’s.
Let’s control what information people hear, where have we heard that before, oh that’s right, the bunch of Marxists we voted out, only to be replaced by another bunch of authoritarians.
National and labour should just come out of the closet and join their parties together, they are the same, wakey wakey NZ.
Lex Luxter cucking for the globalists again. We all know where this is heading.
Ha ha ha, I’ve been calling him that too!
Orders from beta male of the century keir starmer last week
Too true. And this is the basis of their claims:
‘…The recent Netflix drama Adolescence is a striking case in point. It portrays the fictional story of a 13-year-old white boy who stabs a female classmate to death because his brain was twisted into a pretzel by exposure to the incel subculture over social media. Following its premier, the British government has been using it to gin up a moral panic, with calls to censor social media to tackle the urgent problem of toxic masculinity…’
This article is well worth a close read:
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-involution-of-the-liberal-mind
Keir’s trying to suppress a certain secret video tape
Obviously a trojan horse for digital ID’s.
Luxon is truly pathetic.
This is clearly straight from the WEF playbook.
https://www.weforum.org/publications/reimagining-digital-id/
Sadly, Luxon is a very predictable disappointment. He’s simply a typical dismal middle-management enabler for the globalist technocratic agenda.
I hate to say I told you so, but…
National and Labour are a consistently concerning. This is really an attempt to censor non mainstream views, no doubt in the fear the young will reject the globalists and move to democratic parties, like the AFD in Germany (their voter base is predominantly the young and former East Germans). The latter no doubt, well aware, what repression and its agents, look like.
I sincerely wish people would stop voting for either of them, they are ruining New Zealand. We are already looking to leave, as we see no other option left.
Thought about leaving too, but where to? All western countries are captured.
Vietnam and Malaysia, are my top choices, thus far. Probably leaning towards Vietnam but a little concerned about their relationship with the USA. 30% of their GDP comes from trade with the Yanks.
You are right, the West is mostly screwed unless you consider places like Slovakia and Serbia. That said, both are subject to imposed political instability from the Western globalists. Italy is good at balancing relationships with the US and the like and does have a retirement policy for foreign ex pats.
Why doesnt the govenment just piss off out of our lives? We should be telling them what to do, not vice versa.
Exactly, you read my mind. They are supposed to be public servants but behave more like dictators.
There’s social media and there’s Omegle:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14700353/detroit-rock-musician-sentenced-prison-child-porn.html
Perverts are ubiquitous throughout the metaverse.
If you can’t acknowledge that fact just go …*** yourselves
The last word: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/05/10/of-course-we-should-ban-under-16s-from-social-media-you-fools/