New Zealand’s ruling National Party is using negative body image and self-harm as a reason to ban social media for users under 16.
Following hot on the heels of Starmer announcing his government’s intention, the NZ legislation, which is in the final stages of the Parliamentary process, mirrors Australia’s ban, which passed in 2024 and took effect in late 2025, and requires platforms to implement age verification.
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National Cites Eating Disorders And Self-Harm To Justify Digital ID And Total Online Surveillance
Summarised by Centrist, 18 June 2026
The National Parrty is using concerns about body image and self-harm among teenage girls to argue for an under-16 social media ban that could require every New Zealander to verify their age online.
Cabinet is expected to consider the final proposal within weeks, although ACT and NZ First remain unconvinced.
Education Minister Erica Stanford said the government could not wait while young girls were exposed to damaging material.
“Every minute that we waste, another young girl has been fed awful information about her weight and her looks, and she’s being told that, ‘how about you know going to use this blade to cut yourself’,” Stanford claimed.
Stanford acknowledged it would not stop all children from accessing social media, comparing the platforms to cocaine and saying it would take time for attitudes to change.
“I’ve never said that a ban is going to be immediately effective for 100% of young people,” she said.
The unresolved issue is how platforms would determine whether a user is under 16.
NZ First is concerned that the scheme could result in all users, including adults, being required to prove their age through a government-backed digital identity system before accessing social media.
ACT supports the stated aim but has questioned whether the ban is workable.
Stanford would not say whether she had secured their support.
If ACT and NZ First refuse to back the legislation, National may need Labour to pass it.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said his party was open to working with the government.
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It’s obviously a cover for implementing digital ID and collect private data, finger prints, facial recognition, date of birth, driver’s licence registration ect.
If people don’t play their game, it’s game over. Say NO to this tyranny.
The government does not give a hoot about children’s well fare. Ask yourself why the government require childhood vaccines that are toxic, contain neuro toxins and cause autism, and chronic diseases and sudden infant death syndrome? Early umbelical chord clamping is the start of it all. If the cord was clamped after an hour, there would be no need for vitamin K injections. These vitamin K injections contain nano chemicals which breaks the blood brain barrier, effectively paving the way for subsequent toxins delivered through many other vaccines. Then they are issued a birth certificate, effectively turning them into government possessions/slaves.
The government wants to fully control the children through brainwashing school curriculum that is aimed at brainwashing them into slavery.
The government = mind control (in Latin)
where is the vk nanoparticle sourced
Thanks, Rhonda for this latest report on the Statist paternalism ramping up here in New Zealand where I live to match that of our Australian neighbor also voluntarily enslaved by the State.
One more example of what I term:
“PARENTARCHY” A neologism created by Jack Carney—a catchall word (history’s mausoleum of the Children’s Holocaust)—that is intended to make visible the primordial, taken for granted, power hierarchy of adult over child—the “rule of parents and parent- surrogates”—as the first and formative politics behind later forms of domination such as patriarchy, theocracy, statism, or technocracy. Parentarchy is not caregiving per se but the systemic, morally justified and politically legitimated, domination of children (ownership, coercion, humiliation, terror, conditional love) that normalizes obedience and becomes the template for later obedience to bosses, priests, politicians, technical experts and saviors.
https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/parentarchy-free-friends-forum-27
We who are responsible for our freedom must help Peaceful Autonomous Parenting become the norm—the only way we will produce a peaceful world.
“It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility towards themselves, but also in adoration.” Etienne de La Boetie
But who owns the data?
“Age verification” is nothing but Digital ID. They always use children’s safety excuse to institute draconian measures. The PTB are all rank liars, criminals and Luciferian. A pox upon them. Don’t fall for it.
Data centres are going up everywhere in the world, to surveillance people, collect/ store their data and to bring in robots to control humanity