UN General Assembly
2022

In New Zealand, we deeply value our right to protest. Some of our major social progress has been brought about by hikoi or people power, including becoming the first country in the world to recognize women’s right to vote and movement on major indigenous and human rights issues, to name but a few. Upholding those values in a modern environment translates into protecting a free, secure and open Internet in order to realize all of the opportunities that it presents in the way we communicate, organize and gather. But that does not mean the absence of transparency, expectations or even rules, if we correctly identify what it is we are trying to prevent. Surely we can start with violent extremism and terrorist content online.