The under-16 ban doesn't check under-16s. It checks you.
To keep a 15-year-old off a platform, that platform first has to work out who's over 16. Which means every adult, not just teenagers, having to prove who they are just to keep the account they already have: a face scan, a digital ID check, sometimes a passport.
This isn't a child safety policy. It's a verification system for adults.
The Free Speech Union is opposing the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill.
🚩Luxon has stuffed up again this morning.
He’s commited National to the marxist global managed decline, and temporarily loses the ability to speak when Hosking asked him about NZF’s latest candidate Craig Stobo, it’s hilarious - Luxon turns to jelly.
More seriously, he has foolishly laid out a bottom line - “Paris will not be negotiable”
The insane Paris climate agreement has and continues to destroy countless economies around the world.
Act wants to tinker with Paris, Winston Peters wants to leave it entirely - Luxon has just said that any government he leads - that won’t be happening will stay in Paris AT ALL COSTS . The reason is because “It will mean we don’t comply with climate obligations in our FTA’s ….
Hang on, Didn’t Luxon say that the UNDRIP and Paris inclusions in the awful India FTA meant nothing ? and that “they put those provisions in all the agreements, but we can ignore them”
None of this makes sense does it ?
Channelling Ardern he says Climate change is the biggest threat to the Pacific “absolutely”
Oh BTW 15-19 year old unemployment rate is now over 25%, and Luxon is about to flood is with uncapped Indian Students with guaranteed work rights through the FTA.
This morning on the platform, Richard Prebble stated “ It’s almost like Luxon wants to lose the election”
Watch below to see if you agree.
Let’s sum up for Mr Potato head.
To get a policy across the line that absolutely no one asked for let alone voted for, Luxon had to go cap in hand to Hipkins to garner support from the party that no body wanted.
And these retarded fucks call that Democracy.
🚨 🛑 🔴 "Your Access Has Been Denied"
A phrase NZers 🇳🇿 will have to get used if PM @chrisluxonmp & his sidekick @chrishipkins get their wicked way.
While the Under 16's social media ban sounds cool we all know it will fail & lead to wider free speech restrictions for all citizens by stealth.
@EricaStanfordMP@NZNationalParty@nzlabour
Erica Stanford's attack on parents is obscene.
Parents have the privilege and obligation of raising their kids yet Erica Stanford is determined to restrict parental rights, convinced she and her bureaucrats are better at parenting your own children than you are.
Erica Stanford says she is protecting kids from online harm.
She isn't. She is attacking parents and cynically using your children as a vehicle to impose Digital ID tyranny upon the entire population.
Erica Stanford is making her digital vaccine mandatory.
Refuse to take it.
Three dishonest points Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon are making on the issue of the under 16 social media ban.
1. They're saying "if you care about kids you'll support the ban". The implication being that non-supporters don't care about kids.
No person possessing a rational argument would have need of such a smear. There are a thousand good reasons to oppose this bill. Doing so only means you're too smart to be sucked in by Stanford's deceit laden campaign.
2. Although it wont work 100%, its worth doing for the small success it might have.
This statement totally ignores the downside to the law. Not only the dollar cost of the necessary bureaucracy, but the infringement of free speech that comes with it.
3. They're framing it as brave and honourable heroine Erica Stanford taking on the evil of big tech, all powerful, well funded and making profit from the pain of children.
A self serving distortion. Stanford is part of a major campaign by a power drunk globalist political alliance aiming to eventually extinguish criticism (free speech) on the internet.
This legislation gives them a foot in the door. Then they creep on with gradually broader laws eventually stifling all dissent.
EOS.
There is no way the desperate emotion driven arguments expounded by Luxon & Stanford justify this law.
Jeremy Clarkson has been refused permission to sell food he grew himself, twice. In the same window, central government overruled a Lincolnshire council to put solar panels across 1,214 hectares of grazing land, an area the size of Heathrow.
Run the two columns side by side, because the pattern is the whole story.
He asked to open a restaurant in his own lambing shed. Refused.
He asked for a car park for the people already blocking the lane. Refused.
He asked to sell food produced more than sixteen miles away. Capped at sixteen.
He asked for a barn to store his own harvest, so he would not have to sell at whatever price August offered. Full application required.
He asked about the restaurant again. Enforcement notice, and six weeks judged ample to put the building back as it was.
Now the other column.
Had he covered those same fields in solar panels, the council could have refused and been overruled from Whitehall, as Lincolnshire was in October 2025.
Had he grown maize to feed an anaerobic digester, nobody would have written to anybody.
Had he taken £532 a hectare from Defra to grow a legume fallow, he would have been paid to leave a crop standing that may not be harvested, grazed or sold. Defra cut that rate this year and gave the reason in writing: it had become attractive enough to take land out of food production.
Had he sold the lot to a data centre, a battery park or a Chinese pig unit, all four of which he listed in his column last week, the paperwork would have moved considerably faster than a farm shop's.
There is your planning system. Every use of English farmland is easier to permit than farming.
Two hundred of his acres grew nothing at all this year, and the queue of people who want that ground for something other than food is already forming.
He is not being stopped from developing the countryside. He is being stopped from feeding it.
Erica Stanford continues her emotion driven campaign to introduce jack-booted govt controls over the internet.
She talks about the harm, but won't discuss why she sees govt and draconian regulation as the solution.
Many see better solutions. Such as encouraging parents to make use of the many practical software and hardware measures that already exist to keep kids from harm.
"Nope," says Erica. "I'm from the govt and I'm here to help"
US President Ronald Reagan said these were the nine most terrifying words in the English language and he was right.
NZers will find this out if the far left Stanford ever gets her legislation passed here. It will do more damage overall to society by far than any harm perceived right now.