Mr Not Today

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

You cannot age-verify children without age-verifying adults. 

To stop a 15-year-old creating an account, platforms must first know whether every other user is over 16. That means building identity-checking systems for the entire population - not just children. 

This isn't a side effect. It's the design. 

A policy sold as protecting children is, in practice, an identity infrastructure for everyone. That's the debate we should be having.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@Mountain_Tui @roadracerkev I think most history tellers conclude that restriction on speech in Germany in the 1930s was a primary tool used by the state to bring about the events of that time. Burning books etc.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@roadracerkev @Mountain_Tui That line has been well and truly crossed already for a long time now.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@roadracerkev @Mountain_Tui It cuts both ways thought doesn't it.
Therefore free speech has to indeed be free speech. You are entitled to be offended or to offend, and either believe or not believe what is written / spoken. But yes it must be free for our society to be free.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@StephenKing The word "given" in your statement there carries a lot of questions with it.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@AynRandy666 'experts' eh

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@simonmaechling Do tell me why you think people stopped trusting 'science' + a bunch established institutions.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@MarkGraham_Akl @SeanPlunket Sounds good to me.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@simonmaechling Its that simple is it?

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@vlcnz @Ali_Hashemi_trs To say that the poster says "that migrants are coming here to simply wait 24 mths to go on a benefit" is incorrect.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@2ETEKA Whilst not reading such a lengthy document was understandable, today we can get an LLM to scan it for such insidious clauses / clauses contrary to our fundamental position(s).
I suggest the ministers adopt such practices!

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

Alert! Policy idea for the next election...

Every school must have the New Zealand flag on a flag pole.

Agree?

We need some civic pride!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@alexwg Grok told me:
If SubQ's claims are real ... it likely accelerates the timeline by 1–3 years for practical, widespread availability of similar capabilities... Without it, the pre-existing trajectory suggests we’d still get there, but more gradually.

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@alexwg no mention of this:
https://t.co/Bk6eNvnqYE
?

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

📵🔞The Free Speech Union has today found out that the Government is trying to quietly build the machinery for an under-16 social media ban – whilst trying to keep their actions out of public view.  

The government says it's still "developing policy options" on banning under-16s from social media. Its own job ads tell a different story. 

On Monday, Department of Internal Affairs posted a listing for a "Programme Implementation Director" to lead "the establishment of new Government restrictions on access to social media for those under 16." The attached job spec went further - naming a July 2027 go-live date for an -16 social media ban, planning a public awareness campaign, engagement with schools and NGOs, and organisational design for a "Phase 1 regulator."   

This isn't exploration. It's construction. 

By Tuesday the listing had been pulled and replaced. The new version scrubs references to social media platforms, swaps "restrictions" for "policy and regulatory options," and replaces "will" with "could." The salary range disappeared. So did the link to the detailed job spec. 

But the job spec is still out there. And it tells you exactly what they're building - they just don't want you to see it yet. 

This matters because the government is building enforcement infrastructure before the legislation even exists. Before Parliament has debated it. Before the public has had a genuine say. The rushed "consultation" on this bill starts to make a lot more sense when you realise the machinery was already being assembled behind the scenes.

[𝓑𝓸𝓫 𝓜𝓬𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓴𝓻𝓲𝓮 🇳🇿 @bobmccoskrienz]

Hey @NZStuff

Would you mind just pointing me to your similar articles questioning the 'derangement' of President Biden.

You know, the President who actually was asleep at the wheel.

🙄

[Mr Not Today @PaulDuncan28029]

@ajthompson13 It’s a radical idea, for sure. But the tax base theoretically might be driven higher as more people are motivated to get into an earning bracket free of tax (and saturate their tax payments in the process). At the moment effort to earn beyond $180k is seriously discouraged