ACT

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Greens

We would protect women and girls from digital harm, including women in public positions, by regulating social media and other online content providers, resource online harm prevention, and resource programmes for all genders that improve empathy, emotional intelligence, and communication. This would include transgender women, immigrants, disabled women, and women of all races.

Labour

Labour wants to see social media and online spaces that are safer for women gender diverse, LGBTQI+ peoples, and young people.

These include more education and research, safety features built into the algorithms, and a way to make sure the platforms are compliant.

National

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NZ First

New Zealand First supports strong law and order, tougher penalties, and enhanced cyber-safety oversight to combat online abuse. The party rejects identity-based division, guaranteeing equal protection under the law for all citizens against harassment, violence, and intimidation.

Opportunity

Opportunity supports stronger regulation of social media platforms to address online harms and believes platforms should have greater responsibility for the environments they create.

We support the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill proceeding to select committee, but do not regard an age restriction as a substitute for making social media platforms themselves safer. We will consider the evidence and the wider regulatory framework before taking a final position on the Bill. 

Te Pāti Māori

Te Pāti Māori has called for a joint taskforce to investigate hate speech by right-wing extremist groups, and we have called for legislative reform of our hate speech laws.