Stop B416!
@b416.nz
The B416 campaign is working to ban minors from social media in Aotearoa New Zealand. Let's focus on real issues related to helping rangatahi mental health instead of censoring the internet for all. Learn more at b416.nz
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I recently joined @rabble.nz on @revolution.social Podcast to talk about what it really takes to make the internet safer for teens and why strict bans may not be the best solution.
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM
#DigitalSafety #TeensOnline #SafetyByDesign #DigitalCitizenship #TechForGood
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM
#DigitalSafety #TeensOnline #SafetyByDesign #DigitalCitizenship #TechForGood
Banning Kids From Social Media Isn’t the Answer (with Pamela Wisniewski)
YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble
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October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I recently joined @rabble.nz on @revolution.social Podcast to talk about what it really takes to make the internet safer for teens and why strict bans may not be the best solution.
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM
#DigitalSafety #TeensOnline #SafetyByDesign #DigitalCitizenship #TechForGood
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM
#DigitalSafety #TeensOnline #SafetyByDesign #DigitalCitizenship #TechForGood
Trying to keep children off internet sites has three problems: it will be easily worked around by kids; cumbersome for adults; and devastating for online anonymity and privacy
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/s...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/s...
Social media ban won't just affect under-16s
Opinion: Trying to control children's internet use will be easily worked around by kids; cumbersome for adults; and devastating for anonymity and privacy, argues Dr Eric Crampton
newsroom.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Trying to keep children off internet sites has three problems: it will be easily worked around by kids; cumbersome for adults; and devastating for online anonymity and privacy
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/s...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/s...
People think that these age bans like B416 are a way to fight back against big tech but that’s not what they do. Meta supports the bans because it gives them more power and control over the their users. It’s not protecting anyone by big tech and the surveillance state.
Banning phones or forcing age checks might look like safety, but @etymologynerd.bsky.social argues it backfires.
They hand more data to Big Tech, block smaller platforms (Bluesky isn’t in MS), & stop kids from gaining algorithmic literacy.
Phone bans are book bans.
Ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
They hand more data to Big Tech, block smaller platforms (Bluesky isn’t in MS), & stop kids from gaining algorithmic literacy.
Phone bans are book bans.
Ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
People think that these age bans like B416 are a way to fight back against big tech but that’s not what they do. Meta supports the bans because it gives them more power and control over the their users. It’s not protecting anyone by big tech and the surveillance state.
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We’re used to living online under a few billionaires. If something’s wrong, we complain, leave, or hope lawmakers act.
@mmasnick.bsky.social calls this “learned helplessness.” Bluesky’s idea of letting people choose their own algorithms and moderation aims to give that control back.
Ep out now.
@mmasnick.bsky.social calls this “learned helplessness.” Bluesky’s idea of letting people choose their own algorithms and moderation aims to give that control back.
Ep out now.
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We’re used to living online under a few billionaires. If something’s wrong, we complain, leave, or hope lawmakers act.
@mmasnick.bsky.social calls this “learned helplessness.” Bluesky’s idea of letting people choose their own algorithms and moderation aims to give that control back.
Ep out now.
@mmasnick.bsky.social calls this “learned helplessness.” Bluesky’s idea of letting people choose their own algorithms and moderation aims to give that control back.
Ep out now.
Jonathan Haidt's views are based on bad science when it comes to harms from social media and phones. His solutions aren't based on any research at all.
If we follow his misguided ideas we'll lose free speech on the internet. And it won't help anybody's mental health!
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
If we follow his misguided ideas we'll lose free speech on the internet. And it won't help anybody's mental health!
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?
In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...
www.tes.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Jonathan Haidt's views are based on bad science when it comes to harms from social media and phones. His solutions aren't based on any research at all.
If we follow his misguided ideas we'll lose free speech on the internet. And it won't help anybody's mental health!
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
If we follow his misguided ideas we'll lose free speech on the internet. And it won't help anybody's mental health!
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
If the B416 campaign wins then Bluesky is likely to simply block New Zealand.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If the B416 campaign wins then Bluesky is likely to simply block New Zealand.
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"The Latest Government Gift to Big Tech and Corporate Power"
Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent, writes for @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for Zeteo.
Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent, writes for @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for Zeteo.
The Latest Government Gift to Big Tech and Corporate Power
Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent.
zeteo.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"The Latest Government Gift to Big Tech and Corporate Power"
Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent, writes for @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for Zeteo.
Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent, writes for @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for Zeteo.
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Going live on TikTok to discuss age verification laws and KOSA and censorship. JOIN IN!! www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz/
Taylor Lorenz's Creator Profile
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August 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Going live on TikTok to discuss age verification laws and KOSA and censorship. JOIN IN!! www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz/
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YouTube is rolling out its AI-powered age verification system today
It will assess a user’s age based on factors including:
• Type of content watched
• Search activity
• Longevity of the account
It will assess a user’s age based on factors including:
• Type of content watched
• Search activity
• Longevity of the account
August 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
YouTube is rolling out its AI-powered age verification system today
It will assess a user’s age based on factors including:
• Type of content watched
• Search activity
• Longevity of the account
It will assess a user’s age based on factors including:
• Type of content watched
• Search activity
• Longevity of the account
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what do we know?
- Age verification doesn't protect kids
- Age verification puts your personal data at risk
- The US government is disappearing people and building concentration camps
- The US government will have access to your age verification information.
- Age verification doesn't protect kids
- Age verification puts your personal data at risk
- The US government is disappearing people and building concentration camps
- The US government will have access to your age verification information.
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verificat
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verification to YouTube
Don’t upload your ID or selfie for age verificat
August 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
what do we know?
- Age verification doesn't protect kids
- Age verification puts your personal data at risk
- The US government is disappearing people and building concentration camps
- The US government will have access to your age verification information.
- Age verification doesn't protect kids
- Age verification puts your personal data at risk
- The US government is disappearing people and building concentration camps
- The US government will have access to your age verification information.
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While preventing kids from allegedly harmful content online sounds like a great idea in theory, these laws set the stage for authoritarian censorship, violate young people’s core civil liberties, forcibly expose users to significant privacy risks and utterly fail at their goal of “protecting kids”
The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
While preventing kids from allegedly harmful content online sounds like a great idea in theory, these laws set the stage for authoritarian censorship, violate young people’s core civil liberties, forcibly expose users to significant privacy risks and utterly fail at their goal of “protecting kids”
The ID check system that b416.co.nz wants to implement in New Zealand means the end of privacy online for everyone.
It doesn’t protect minors, it’s a crackdown on the internet, driven by a moral panic about “the kids these days.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It doesn’t protect minors, it’s a crackdown on the internet, driven by a moral panic about “the kids these days.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Before16
b416.co.nz
August 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The ID check system that b416.co.nz wants to implement in New Zealand means the end of privacy online for everyone.
It doesn’t protect minors, it’s a crackdown on the internet, driven by a moral panic about “the kids these days.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It doesn’t protect minors, it’s a crackdown on the internet, driven by a moral panic about “the kids these days.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
The B416 campaign to ban minors from social media and require everybody in new zealand to register their online accounts with the government is driven by a moral panic.
There is evidenced based real research on how to make social media healthier. Read it!
www.afterbabel.com/p/the-algori...
There is evidenced based real research on how to make social media healthier. Read it!
www.afterbabel.com/p/the-algori...
The Algorithm Next Door
How local digital platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook are fraying the fabric of neighborhood trust — and what we can build instead.
www.afterbabel.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The B416 campaign to ban minors from social media and require everybody in new zealand to register their online accounts with the government is driven by a moral panic.
There is evidenced based real research on how to make social media healthier. Read it!
www.afterbabel.com/p/the-algori...
There is evidenced based real research on how to make social media healthier. Read it!
www.afterbabel.com/p/the-algori...
Congratulations to everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand to organized to keep #internetNZ a force for an open internet.
July 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Congratulations to everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand to organized to keep #internetNZ a force for an open internet.
Making the internet safe for everybody isn't about banning minors and making their social media use illegal. There are real problems and real solutions.
@b416.nz's @rabble.nz speaks with @yoyoel.com about how we can do better while also keeping our freedom.
@b416.nz's @rabble.nz speaks with @yoyoel.com about how we can do better while also keeping our freedom.
How do we govern ourselves in social media? Can we do it with bluesky and open social media protocols? We talk trust, safety, and moderation with @yoyoel.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c...
www.youtube.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Making the internet safe for everybody isn't about banning minors and making their social media use illegal. There are real problems and real solutions.
@b416.nz's @rabble.nz speaks with @yoyoel.com about how we can do better while also keeping our freedom.
@b416.nz's @rabble.nz speaks with @yoyoel.com about how we can do better while also keeping our freedom.
Video game screenshots are able to defeat the new 'iron clad' UK age verification!
Banning minors won't keep them off of social media, but it will destroy our privacy.
www.theverge.com/report/71440...
Banning minors won't keep them off of social media, but it will destroy our privacy.
www.theverge.com/report/71440...
Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode
Thanks, Sam
www.theverge.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Video game screenshots are able to defeat the new 'iron clad' UK age verification!
Banning minors won't keep them off of social media, but it will destroy our privacy.
www.theverge.com/report/71440...
Banning minors won't keep them off of social media, but it will destroy our privacy.
www.theverge.com/report/71440...
They tried to implement age verification tech in the UK and it just doesn't work. It won't work here either.
The B416 ban will just drive teens underground making their social media use 'illegal' and endanger them more.
www.theverge.com/analysis/713...
The B416 ban will just drive teens underground making their social media use 'illegal' and endanger them more.
www.theverge.com/analysis/713...
The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass
Good thing kids don’t know what VPNs are.
www.theverge.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
They tried to implement age verification tech in the UK and it just doesn't work. It won't work here either.
The B416 ban will just drive teens underground making their social media use 'illegal' and endanger them more.
www.theverge.com/analysis/713...
The B416 ban will just drive teens underground making their social media use 'illegal' and endanger them more.
www.theverge.com/analysis/713...
This will happen in New Zealand if we pass the B416 law!
Looking at you Australia's and UK's User ID laws.
"Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space" www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
"Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space" www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space
The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.
www.nbcnews.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This will happen in New Zealand if we pass the B416 law!
The B415.co.nz campaign will lead to the ban on anonymous internet use in Aotearoa New Zealand. Welcome to an era where kiwi's no longer have privacy.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
B415.co.nz
July 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The B415.co.nz campaign will lead to the ban on anonymous internet use in Aotearoa New Zealand. Welcome to an era where kiwi's no longer have privacy.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Banning minors from social media is a simplistic solution to a complex problem. It will hurt everyone Luxon doesn’t care about, Māori, Pasifika, rainbow communities, the disabled, etc… it is a cheap damaging solution instead of funding youth mental health care.
www.metromag.co.nz/society/soci...
www.metromag.co.nz/society/soci...
Metro — Blackout
A new movement to ban social media for under-16s has a huge blind spot.
www.metromag.co.nz
July 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Banning minors from social media is a simplistic solution to a complex problem. It will hurt everyone Luxon doesn’t care about, Māori, Pasifika, rainbow communities, the disabled, etc… it is a cheap damaging solution instead of funding youth mental health care.
www.metromag.co.nz/society/soci...
www.metromag.co.nz/society/soci...
Banning teens from social media doesn’t help them and it violates everyone else’s fundamental rights!
bab407.com.au/blog/the-kid...
bab407.com.au/blog/the-kid...
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bab407.com.au
July 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Banning teens from social media doesn’t help them and it violates everyone else’s fundamental rights!
bab407.com.au/blog/the-kid...
bab407.com.au/blog/the-kid...
Australian commission to look into to age verification software lied about its effectiveness in their preliminary findings. The draft full report leaked completely contradicting the recently published preliminary findings! www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/09/t...
See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried
Australia's age-assurance technology trial released 'preliminary findings' that the tech was ready to go. Now experts have seen the underlying data, they're not sure that's right.
www.crikey.com.au
July 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Australian commission to look into to age verification software lied about its effectiveness in their preliminary findings. The draft full report leaked completely contradicting the recently published preliminary findings! www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/09/t...
Last week @rabble.nz went on the Decentered Media Podcast to talk about what it means to have a healthy social media ecosystem and how we need to do it with protocols and protecting free speech. Age & government ID verification will kill our internet feedom
decentered.co.uk/building-par...
decentered.co.uk/building-par...
Building Participatory Media with Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka Rabble) – Decentered Media
In this episode of the Decentered Media Podcast , Rob speaks with Evan Henshaw-Plath , widely known as Rabble , a technologist, activist, and early contributor
decentered.co.uk
June 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Last week @rabble.nz went on the Decentered Media Podcast to talk about what it means to have a healthy social media ecosystem and how we need to do it with protocols and protecting free speech. Age & government ID verification will kill our internet feedom
decentered.co.uk/building-par...
decentered.co.uk/building-par...
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Definitely check out this website. There's a group opposed to this ban and they've set up a website outlining the privacy issues that will arise for all of us. b416.nz
Stop B416 - Protect Youth Privacy in New Zealand
Mandatory digital ID requirements threaten vulnerable youth. Join us in opposing B416 and protecting privacy rights for all New Zealanders.
b416.nz
June 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Definitely check out this website. There's a group opposed to this ban and they've set up a website outlining the privacy issues that will arise for all of us. b416.nz
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OF COURSE it's two wealthy privileged white ladies (Anna Mowbray, Cecilia Robinson) driving the B416 social media ban campaign for kids.
Much simpler and easier than funding the desperately needed youth mental health care, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists etc desperately needed.
Much simpler and easier than funding the desperately needed youth mental health care, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists etc desperately needed.
May 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
OF COURSE it's two wealthy privileged white ladies (Anna Mowbray, Cecilia Robinson) driving the B416 social media ban campaign for kids.
Much simpler and easier than funding the desperately needed youth mental health care, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists etc desperately needed.
Much simpler and easier than funding the desperately needed youth mental health care, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists etc desperately needed.