Naylor Jono: Harmful Digital Communications Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: Harmful Digital Communications Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 25 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4834. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): This is always an interesting time of the day to have to rise and start to take a call knowing full well that somewhere along the line in this speech the bell is going to go and you are going to get told to sit down. But I will start anyway because I am sure I will get to finish my speech at some later date. It would be great to live in a society where we did not need legislation like this. It would be great if people could behave appropriately but while we have still got vindictive or stupid or even naive people out there who are behaving in a way that is harmful to others we need to have legislation in place to protect people from that type of behaviour.I just want to focus on that a little bit. We have been talking a lot about young people I know with regard to this. It is incredibly widespread. Studies have shown that perhaps up to one in five high school students has experienced cyber-bullying at some point in their high school years. It is an incredibly high statistic. Some of that is vindictive. Some of that as I said is just stupid on behalf of the perpetrators and sometimes it is just naive. Some people argued that this is a very heavy-handed way to deal with some of that behaviour.However when you look at the results of this kind of behaviour we can look at the number of young people for whom it leads to truancy perhaps because they do not want to go to school and face their peers because of something that has been posted on social media or the level of anxiety that that starts to lead to or worse still levels of depression self-harm and as we have already heard referred to a number of times in the House tonight young people even getting to the point where they take their own lives. It is very easy for us to keep talking about young people. I know of the high-profile case of Charlotte Dawson who took her own life. It is tragic that there are older people as well who are facing this. Although we are talking a lot about young people I think we need to make sure that we do not forget older people as well.As I said because of the consequences of this kind of behaviour it is critically important that we do take it seriously. It is critically important because social media is incredibly powerful in the number of people whom it can reach so quickly. Although this is not to demonise social media; in fact it can be a very positive thing. I know that a Facebook page I set up this week has built to about 8000 people liking it and one post reached 142000 people. So it is incredibly rapid the way these things can work. I know my colleague Chris Bishop took a photograph of a note that he wrote to the Hon David Parker and suddenly that has ended up with 22000 people seeing it as well. So this does spread and we need to make sure that while we do not demonise social media we do need to ensure that we are taking appropriate steps where it is negative to not having such a bad thing. In fact you might say that the vibe of the message is important. Quite often it is not just the specific things that are being said but it is the vibe. It is the kind of message that is being created for young people and the effects that it has on them.It is often heard around this Chamber as we have been debating this through the Committee of the whole House—