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Social media platforms could face NZ ban if under-16 Bill passes

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The Government’s proposed under-16 social media ban could allow the High Court to block access to platforms if the companies fail to comply.

Section 38 of the Bill provides for “access restriction orders”, requiring internet service providers to prevent users from accessing non-compliant platforms.

Newstalk ZB political reporter Ethan Griffiths said companies such as Meta could also face penalties of up to 10% of their annual revenue.



Minister Erica Stanford said the legislation needed “meaningful” consequences to ensure social media companies followed the new requirements. Listen to Ethan Griffiths on Newstalk ZB or read the Bill at Legislation.govt.nz.

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14 COMMENTS

  1. READ THE ROOM ERICA YOU STUPID WOMAN WE DONT WANT THIS PROVE YOURE OVER 16 SOCIAL MEDIA BAN. Stop wasting time and money on this STUPID law no one asked for except that dumb Swedish woman too lazy to parent her kids properly.

  2. I hate social media but to go this far is so see through that the agenda is digital ID. There is nothing in the bill that stands out as being personal, completely copied from from the globalist textbook.

  3. This has nothing to do with protecting kids. This is just a backdoor way of forcing through what will ultimately be a mandatory Digital ID for all. If under 16s have to prove their age, then of course everyone else will basically have to prove they are over 16. This is all just part of the globalist agenda. Once they have the mandatory ID it will then be the programable digital currency and then we will lose the small amount of freedom they currently allow us to still believe we have.

  4. Government are fed up with truthful comments, videos showing politicians doing something like going back on their word, misleading or worse. Having the posters details on hand for the police to switch off, delete and prosecute isn’t. A censorship with very nasty outcomes. Barry Young for example.

    An NZ$35 Billion fine for a one-liner sentence or photo on Facebook seems unworkable for Meta, Facebook shareholders. I wouldn’t continue to operate a service in NZ with that axe hanging over my investment.

    Consequence censorship ideology.

    Let’s not forget this bill is supported by both Labour and National and no other party. A clear sign never to vote for these guys.

    Back in the day when the 7 O’Clock news was being read on TV, on rare occasions a phone would ring and the presenter would get instructions. From whom, I can’t be certain. What is clear is the media back then was all government controlled.

    Setting up a TV station was a major cost. Usually Government owned. Now it’s a $99 phone from a store and you can say whatever you like.

  5. This is what a VPN is for; Nicola Willis proved her ignorance when interviewed by Jack Tame on Q&A a few months back when she didn’t even know what a VPN was…and Stanford isn’t far behind!
    The kids will figure out how to get around such bans- various ‘Ghostie Platforms’ are now available via open source software, and I watched a 12 year old on YouTube demonstrate how to modify Viper just last week on how to get around the blockages in many nations.
    Noteworthy is that ALL of the nations that are using ‘keeping the kids safe from harm are using that as an excuse for censorship, especially on the political level, and ALL are tied-in to IDF Unit 8200 and it’s affiliates, ie Zionist Rothschild Banking!
    Look what happened to DTNZ 3 weeks ago, and Counterspin Media; both suffering being shut down without a Court Order, Warrant, or Parliamentary Decree…by the NZDNS, an agency we have never heard of until our right to access alternative and uncensored websites was shut-down, thus violating our Freedom of Speech & Expression, and denying timely truthful information from alternative sources!!
    And yet, the J3wdicial / Legal Systems are chasing after Kim Dotcom for a CIVIL COURT MATTER based on uninterrupted streaming that the J3w$ in Hellywood tried to all but steal, and when they were not successful, (what they can’t buy for cheap, steal thru judgement entries, or blackmail/coerce, they then destroy!) THAT is when they went after KDC.
    People, you’re going to have to WTFU..and vote for a minor party!
    You MUST understand that Labour / Nazional / Nazional /Labour will not change anything, and will make your lives worse-off and miserable! The smugness, arrogance, and ignorance (purported) by these two major parties and their puppy dog minor parties is offensive, rude and deliberate. This is what THEY think of us and YOU!
    Wake-up to what we have lost over the last 20 years…look at who benefits from the Parliamentary rules, laws and decisions: it IS NOT NEW ZEALANDERS! It’s the Zionist Global Banksters, Israel, and the enslavement of the entire Earth via Noahide Laws!
    https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/it-begins-israel-to-host-worlds-first
    https://noahideworldcenter.org/pages/congress
    https://jewtruth.com/video/wewillimposenoahidelawsonallcountriesrabbiyisraelariel/#6
    https://www.thevinnyeastwoodshow.com/latest/why-youre-not-allowed-to-say-the-j-word-rising-tide-media-featuring-vinny-eastwood-dave-gahary-ayo-kithiman-guiseppe-vofanculo
    If you vote for the New Zealand Loyal Party, they may have to deviate from the 1% Transactional Tax to a temporary 2% Tax, due to the economic damage that the Uni-Party has done due to the massive deficit that we now have, mostly put there by a Communist-based woman who no longer lives here, and a J3wi$h former PM who sides 100% with the International Global Zionist Banksters!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kcWHiTehF8
    https://www.thevinnyeastwoodshow.com/vinny-mr-news-eastwoods-blog/john-key-past-and-future-exposed-in-minutes-please-share
    IF the Transactional Tax is raised to 2%, that pays-off New Zealand’s debts, begins emergency funding to rebuild the Marsden Point Refinery for NZ to have energy independence, overhaul the infrastructure in the country, and the surplus could very well FORGIVE STUDENT DEBT and provide for a University education that could be free!
    The New Zealand Loyal Party has excellent, if not outstanding leadership, based on the problems that have been and are now being imposed on them (ie de-banking, lack of fair and equitable media coverage, criminal charges for exposing several conspiracies that have been proven true, the list goes on…)
    NEVER vote for a person or political party unless that person(s) or political party is facing criminal charges under the J3wdicial System that is currently steeped in Freemasonry, Luciferianism, and occultic Saturnalia which exists past the courtroom gate!
    How do these events play out? Here are some quick examples-
    Jesus went to jail (and was murdered by J3w$..)
    Malcolm X went to jail (murdered by Zionist elements..)
    MLK went to jail (murdered by the FBI…)
    Nelson Mandela went to jail (released to do the bidding of the J3wi$h-controlled World Socialist International…)
    Randy Weaver went to jail (after his wife & child were murdered by an FBI sniper…)
    The 83 Branch Davidians were murdered for ordering gun parts (no thanks to an UPS driver informant to the ATF / FBI…)
    Congressman George Hanson went to jail for exposing the brutalities of the IRS…since the IRS collects tax money which then is expedited to Israel…
    Congressman Jim Traficant went to jail for standing-up to the false prosecution of an American who was proven not to be a cancentration camp guard, who flew home with Traficant from Israel after Traficant provided proof that the American J3wdicial System erred in the man’s true identity, without due regard to Constitutional Rights for Traficant’s constituent.
    Examples of persecutions, prosecutions, and disenfranchisements are boundless when J3w$, Israel, the Mossad and IDF Unit 8200 impose their Israel First policies on targeted governments. The False Flags then abound!
    Let’s not allow New Zealand to become targeted, as it has in the past-
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealand_passport_scandal
    Jew World Order (The law states that criticizing zionists is not antisemitism.)
    https://phibetaiota.net/2019/03/breaking-new-zealand-false-flag-by-zionist-israel-with-complete-new-zealand-police-and-freemason-complicity/
    https://rumble.com/v6yjve4-forensic-study-finds-that-christchurch-mosque-shooting-was-staged-greg-rees.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_m
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Spycraft101/comments/unxmkd/an_apparent_israeli_intelligence_operation_in_new/
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/5311500/SAS-patrolled-near-suspected-Israeli-spies
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/8649223/Mossad-spy-ring-unearthed-because-of-Christchurch-earthquake.html
    So, voting for the Uni-Party will invoke more of the same-old same-old…with New Zealand totally and fully controlled by outside Zionist interests via deception in the media, government policies, and hidden laws that are suddenly put in place!
    If you want accountability, an entrenched government that prevents outside harm from other nations, and prosperity, then the only party offering these is the New Zealand Loyal Party!

    • Thank god there are other parties that mean I don’t have to vote for red/ blue or the stolen party. Stolen by a lying freemasonic CIA counterspin agent of chaos

  6. I’ve made several correct decisions in life including avoiding toxic injections masquerading as allegedly essential vaccines. I’ve simply applied science without any social media.

    I’m 62 years old and never had a facebook profile nor anything on instagram nor tiktok or similar. While I have a Linkedin profile and other online profiles specific to what I do, I don’t think I fully understand what social media actually is, and I can easily do without it, whatever it is.

    So,….. I’m happy with any moves to ban social media in NZ. Life was better without it a few short decades ago.

    • I have never had a social media profile either but I don’t support banning free speech or corralling people towards digital ID wake up lady

  7. Of course, I’m wholly confident they wont be spying on adults forced to cough up their private credentials, who say mean things about the globalists on line. I’m just as confidence too, they wont marry this up to draconian hate speech laws, so they can send “da boys” round to your house. Because New Zealand isn’t Nazi Germany or the USSR. Surely not, right?

  8. Wouldn’t surprise me if the election is rigged this year so the major Following the Globalists Agenda parties not because they want to but because they have to and to Gutless to Cross the Real power that pays and Funds there Campaigns

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