MEDIAWATCH: Well well well confidential Cabinet briefing paper shows Ministry of Truth will be free speech garrotte

ByMartyn Bradbury

Well, well, well.

What do we have here? The Confidential briefing paper that shows the true scale of the Department of Internal Affairs new ‘Ministry of Truth’…

…remember, woke defenders of this new ‘Ministry of Truth’ declared this was only a regulatory framework to counter social media networks to ensure consumer safety.

TDB argued it was far larger than that and was an outrageous over reach of State power to regulate free speech.

Turns out we were right.

This is well beyond changing the hate speech laws, this is an entire Bureaucratic Infrastructure upgrade that would allow the aggrieved to complain to the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Truth would demand the Network’s ‘Safety’ plan and would ‘audit’ the ‘safety’ plan to see if you as the Network owner are protecting the consumer safety of vulnerable people (as defined by the Ministry of Truth).

One of the fears of the change in Hate Speech Laws was that the woke would weaponise the process and demand investigations for every twitter fight since 2016, well this suggestion by the DIA codifies a means for which anyone can launch their latest lynch mobs from.

This is now focused on mis/disinformation (and we know how toxic woke warriors are inside those organisations),  unwanted digital communication??? (is that the Spinoff?), racism and hate speech.

Notice how that was all hidden from the public about the true nature of what the DIA have privately built here?

Under this new regime, the Ministry of Truth compels a regulation that requires ‘safety’ plans for ‘vulnerable’ people (as defined by the Ministry of Truth).

If a person complains about your content, you are required to show the Ministry your ‘Safety’ plan and if that ‘Safety’ plan is not good enough to deal with the lived experience of the vulnerable people who you have offended, you are in trouble.

It seems the vulnerable people will determine that.

If my safety plan is not robust enough, I don’t have one or if it doesn’t end up pacifying the vulnerable person, I get fined.

This is sold as a means to protect vulnerable people, it will immediately become a weaponised process that will inspire a billion new fights.

What we should be looking at, rather than a Ministry of Truth, is actual fourth estate journalism that consumers can trust, not a weaponised complaints procedure that will immediately become exploited by partisan activists masquerading as consumer safety.

What we need is a total rethink on public money spent on journalism. Currently it is handed out via a deeply invested NZ on Air who give their mates money to produce angry feminist mommy blogger podcasts no on watches.

The problem with the current model is that it is NZ on Air mates funding other NZ on Air mates to form an echo bunker of elite opinion that never has to dirty itself with reality.

All that is being generated by the current funding model is The Spin-off sharing their content with RNZ/Stuff/TVNZ etc etc etc. An endless social engineering campaign that promotes diversity over white cis male facts.

What we need is NZ on Air ‘Read between the Flags’ Kiwi journalism

In a world of disinformation, we need journalism we can trust. We all get the ‘swim between the flag’ model of surf life saving, NZ on Air should be given extra funding for ‘Read between the flags’ Kiwi Journalism. This money is to ensure plurality of voice for independent media, Māori media, specific communities,  news blogs and mainstream news media who become eligible if they agree to a set of Journalistic Principles.

These Journalistic Principles are fact checking stories, attempting to get comment and providing right of replies, protecting sources and attempts to hear the other side of the story.

If you do agree and sign up and can show a body of work that proves your journalism, you are entitled to funding and must have a Kiwi Journalism flag on your site to show you are obliged to follow the Journalistic Principles Code of conduct.

You would have an awareness campaign to urge NZers to ‘read between the flags’ for trusted information.

You can’t control the narrative by simply censoring it the way the Disinformation Project wants, and a ‘read between the flags’ campaign alongside a journalism fund would ensure Kiwis knew that whatever they were reading is at least base line journalistic standards rather than so much of the bullshit opinion masquerading as journalism.

We need to adapt our funding model if we want to have a media that can change to the realities of disinformation and misinformation while championing the importance of the values of journalism.

All NZ on Air funded journalism is now is an extension of elite opinion echo bunkers that only reinforces the privilege rather than challenges it.

What we are instead getting is an Orwellian Wellington Woke Bureaucratic Panzer that will crush anyone who the partisan activists turn it against.

We don’t need a Ministry of truth, we need better funded Fourth Estate Journalism funded by the State with a clear set of journalistic standards and a public campaign warning Kiwis to ‘read within the flags’.

We need smarter ideas, not a Ministry of Truth.

 

 

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46 Comments

  2. I really like the idea of a ‘read between the flags’ journalistic integrity based funding system. If you replaced the PIJF with something that allocated funding along those lines, I think trust in the media would increase, rather than decrease, which is the effect of PIJF.

    1. “read between the flags” could be a good idea funding model if it upholds journalistic standards and values independent journalism. Of course whoever is on the committe can be subject to capture in the way they dish out blue flags and dollars. But better than truthmin.

  3. They hid this like they hid He Puapua. They know that the bulk of Kiwis don’t want either

    1. Yeti Of course they hide things, they’re stupid bullies who don’t care what Kiwis want, only what they want. They should be called to account for the damage they’ve done, but we may have to settle for dumping them.

  5. I have been amazed at what has happened in Britain, the so-called United Kingdom which is linked to the so-called United States of America, in an absolute frenzy of caring about individuals and name-calling or bad actions. This while USA can have a cop kneel on a black persons’s neck while the public feel helpless to physically intervene. Or are they linked in sliding back to moralistic authoritarian systems of the past that intellectually minded, educated people with goodwill towards each other were expecting us all to move out from. But where was the accretion of money and power allowed for in that system. Now the money system has been allowed to overreach, wrap around and envelop our simple human sysryms and we have new powerful toys AI being one of them, humans need to go to puppy school and be taught how to behave like good dogs, and be kept in order by bigger dogs.

    Commenters have talked about government over-reaching itself but in fact they have become tools of the vast system of the wealthy imperious (a word used in the 16th century – so in all that time we haven’t been able to turn away from the obsession). What now?
    It seems that the locusts are on us. The actors of Titus Andronicus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus. Read the synopsis, it shows how our conflicts probably start.

  6. 100% Martyn

    You know the media are beyond repair when they campaign to get Sean Plunkett kicked out of the press gallery because he asked Hipkins an awkward question: What is a woman?

  7. 20.2, 20.3 & 20.4 are already illegal. As for the rest, the Department of Internal Affairs have obviously never heard of VPNs.

  8. I amnot sure Seymour supports this Truth regulator. He states openly he beiieves in free speach.

    Vote Act.

    And remember this is the woke left that are brining this in. Vote them out

    1. Anker. What about NZ First ? I can’t imagine a smart experienced politician like Peters supporting the left’s determination to censor freedom of speech and to rob democracy of such an essential right.

        1. Anker. Thanks. Freedom of speech has to be a bottom line. The pernicious Gender ID scenarios based only on ideology, and being pushed onto school children is another, and thankfully there are women mobilising to address it. The Platform interviews impressive Jill Ovens about the newly formed womensrightsparty.com, which provides a good tactical outlet, and Hannah Tamaki has also been vocal about it. The horrendous censorship in universities, is the complete antithesis of what universities should be – Aquinas – the raison d’être of the university ‘ the intellect for the intellect’s sake ‘ – which is the last thing the reactive elitist global woke want, or could relate to. They must be biffed out of Bowen Street asap. Currently it’s Peters for me, depending.

      2. NZF for me. Winnie might be untrustworthy in some ways but not about Free Speech and Democracy. I can cast my vote for him knowing that those 2 defining issues of what used to be part of our national character are safe with him. More than I can say about almost all other politicians in NZ.

        1. Fantail I can’t see him putting up with the genderID ideology being inflicted on school children by the barbarians in the Educ Dept either.
          Peters has commonsense, and isn’t intimidated, or impressionable like the ignorami are. Has parented kids.

    2. The only thing Seymour, or anyone else from Act, would disagree with on this is the action against child pornography.

  9. meh they can’t enforce shit already – unfortunately they’ll punish the lowest hanging fruit like the daily blog and kiwiblog but won’t make a shitload of difference to the meta alphabet bannon shit show.

    looking forward to the overt moderation to stay “safe” that will come from this – not!

  10. a new puritanism – how 21st century. when everyone is an outlaw, what then?

    1. dr.doom “ What then? “ Probably with the sort of totalitarian state the Ministry of Truth is seemingly trying to manufacture, the best option is to keep one’s head down, and trust that they don’t create any thought police. We do have the advantage of being able to access overseas news sources which function independently of governments and moguls, as far as I know, and one or two here, like this one.

  11. What started the misinformation issue was the problem of any information however well researched that might cause anyone reading or hearing it to give the covid vaccines a miss.
    D J S

  12. I hope the FSU make plenty of noise about this, we really need people to sit up and take notice. I was expecting something bad but that is awful. It’s also the kind of list that I can see them adding a few new categories onto before it gets passed, maybe causing cultural offence or offence to non binaries or the minor attracted?

    And for the few on here that equate Free Speech with being Far Right, think again.

    One of the Uni’s here in NZ has just done a decent bit of research on free speech and have found that it is the downtrodden and underdog that has the most to gain because of free speech. So those who believe right wing and elites drive Free Speech then know that those who benefit are not that profile at all – food for thought when you sit down to your vegan latte!

    1. Fantail. Anything is possible with VU’s Professor Joanne Kidman having already gone ballistic about the name of a designer frock and the name of an Auckland University cat, but it’s quite ok for her to refer to other academics as shuffling zombies, presumably because Auckland zombies don’t have hurtable feelings, unlike tender Joanne and the Wellington extremist speechers advising the government about shutting others up, and ageism maybe being moveable feast to which she is shuffling herself.

    2. fantail “…offence to non-binaries” has already been done, with anti-sexualisation of children and genderID school propaganda being misrepresented as anti- transgender by lying politicians and MSM alike. This was the pretext for violently silencing women at Albert Park without any biological women having spoken or getting the chance to. Current politicians joined in and publicly celebrated this.

  15. This could be informative here for those of us who don’t understand how easy or not it is for laws that end up making one puke get in.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-house/audio/2018896278/how-select-committees-tweak-bills

    Earlier this month in Parliament the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee sent a report back to the House with an unprecedented extra.

    The committee put on record their concern that – and I am paraphrasing – some of the drafting instructions for the committee’s amendments to the Water Services Legislation Bill had not been what they expected. Some unidentified official had either made a huge mistake or taken it into their head that they knew better than the MPs.

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