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# Win of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/win-of-the-day-2/
- Published: 2024-05-11T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-11T01:32:28.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Free Speech, General, Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> The regulator would have been given the power to force online platforms to take down more kinds of illegal content, such as threats to kill people.  
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> The overall objective of the initiative was to “improve consumer safety for all New Zealanders”, Internal Affairs said.  
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> But a spokesperson for the department said it was not continuing with the project.  
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> Nor was there any indication from the department that any of the proposed work programme would continue in other guises.  
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> Internal Affairs received 20,281 submissions on its proposals from individuals and organisations by its July 31 consultation deadline.  
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> But it declined an Official Information Act request to release a summary of the responses it received until last week, when it hinted at the demise of the initiative by describing it in the past tense.  
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> “The Department of Internal Affairs will not be progressing with the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms programme,” its spokesperson subsequently told *The Post*.  
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> *[Waikato Times](https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/business/350271475/internal-affairs-scraps-ambitious-plan-clean-internet?ref=goodoil.news)*

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