This webinar was held on 10 July 2023. The full recording of the webinar was available for a limited time.
While the full webinar recording is no longer available, you can watch our intro and overview along with comments and slides from speaker Anjum Rahman.
About the webinar
In June 2023 Te Tari Taiwhenua | Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) proposed changes to the way media and online platforms are regulated in New Zealand to keep people safe online. The proposal is called the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms. DIA is inviting public feedback on these proposed reforms.
This webinar explored the proposed reforms and why they are important for people working in family violence and sexual violence. For more information about the consultation see our news story Consultation on regulating online services and media platforms.
Resources
InternetNZ has created guides about key factors of the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms consultation. This includes information about how the consultation considers Te Tiriti o Waitangi and issues for Māori.
The presentation slides from Anjum Rahman link to several reports.
Jo Robertson highlighted findings from these two reports:
- NZ youth and porn: research findings of a survey on how and why young New Zealanders view online pornography (2018) published by the Classification Office
- Teens and Pornography (2023) published by US-based Common Sense Media
Kate Hannah highlighted the just launched report Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: preliminary landscape analysis (2023) commissioned by the Global Partnership for Action on Online Gender Based Abuse and brief from UN Women Understanding and measuring technology-facilitated violence against women for better prevention and response (2023).
For related reports see the following:
- the report An Internet that Benefits (2023) commissioned by InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa from Toi Āria: Design for Public Good and Making Everything Achievable
- reports and articles from The Disinformation Project
- the Kantar Public Unite against the COVID-19 infodemic Research report (2022) proactively released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- The Edge of the Infodemic (2021) by the Classification Office
- The report of the United Nations Secretary-General Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2022) which highlights growing online violence against women and girls
- the UN Women brief The state of evidence and data collection on technology-facilitated violence against women (2023)
- the UN policy paper Countering and Addressing Online Hate Speech: A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners (2023) and the related UN media release
- the UN Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 8 Information Integrity on Digital Platforms (2023) and the related UN media release
- The Incelosphere: Exposing pathways into incel communities and the harms they pose to women and children (2022) published by the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Speakers
Anjum Rahman is the founder and Project Co-Lead of Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono whose mission is to build a social movement across the country of people, organisations and communities committed to working together to build a socially inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand. Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono is part of the Coalition for Better Digital Policy working to improve New Zealand’s voluntary Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harms. Anjum was a founding member of the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand and a founding member and trustee of Shama, Ethnic Women’s Trust. She has worked in the area of sexual violence prevention both as a volunteer and as part of Government working groups. She is also a member of international committees dealing with violent extremist content online, being the co-chair of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network and a member of the Independent Advisory Committee of the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism. She is also a council member of Internet New Zealand.
Kate Hannah is the director of The Disinformation Project, and a PhD candidate in the Centre for Science and Society at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests include gender, ‘race’, eugenics, colonisation and white supremacism in historic and contemporary science and technology cultures and subcultures. Hannah is one of two New Zealand representatives on the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence’s (GPAI) Responsible AI Working Group and is leading a research project developing principles for community consultation on classification and mitigation of online harm for GPAI.
Jo Robertson is the research and training lead for The Light Project, which provides information and resources for youth, families and professionals to navigate the new porn landscape. Jo has a Master’s of Science in Medicine specialising in Sex Therapy, with a focus on international consumption rates and impacts of porn on adolescents. She has had 15 year’s experience working in sexual health and trauma, through education and counselling. Jo has a private therapeutic practice specialising in problematic sexual behaviours, sexual dysfunction and relationship breakdown. She has recently co-founded the campaign Makes Sense, which is lobbying for the removal of illegal sexual content online, and she has a TEDx talk titled ‘Why we need to talk about porn’.
Panel host: Charlotte Moore (Rangitāne o Wairau) is Kaiwhakahaere at the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse.