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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I see Shane Jones is telegraphing the same 'Great Replacement' narrative, & lie Christchurch terrorist used to justify massacre of 51 Muslims in March 2019. This is not political debate. This is violent extremist rhetoric fuelling racism, endangering communities, & ripping apart social cohesion.

Quote attributed to Jones notes: "Don’t let these Green dreams drive us into poverty and drive all our young people away to Australia, only for new migrants coming from the third world to replace our own children and grandchildren. That’s not putting New Zealanders first.”

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

NZ consumed 30% more Russian disinformation than the USA during Covid Russian troll farms successfully penetrated Kiwi country and culture. Unfortunately many remain true believers of that message. I wrote more about it below. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Great work here from Tina Ngata - a website where you can look up Tiriti positive local body candidates 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 #Aotearoa www.votefortetiriti.com

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Vote For Te Tiriti

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The 'two languages confuse children' line is literally assimilationist shit from two generations ago that has been so massively debunked even as whole cohorts lost their mother tongues at school.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The most racist government since Muldoon and also the stupidest.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Some of the symbols make reference to the Interview with a Vampire epoch.

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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

YASS WHAEA!!! #nzpol

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Former National minister Christopher Finlayson says the government is placing the coalition agreement above “good race relations” “Their [Māori’s] rights are always under attack” My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #morality

Cartoon. Title: “Sealed” Two frames. First frame: Deputy PM David Seymour going along a hallway, carrying papers, saying, “I’ll just get the boss’s seal on these”. 2nd frame: PM Christopher Luxon bowing and kissing the ring on a hand coming in from the left. He has lipstick on that spells RUBBER STAMP backwards, and he’s transferred it onto David Seymour’s hand. He’s saying, “I am completely comfortable with this”

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

In systems theory this is known as "The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

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The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This is a feature, not a bug. The ableism, much like racism and misogyny, is structural and a flow on effect of political choices. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Neurodivergent man overwhelmed by Jobseeker admin comes off weekly support

Advocates say the problem is extremely concerning and common but officials say there's enough support on offer.

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Laura Bell Main @ladynerd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Are you ready to rollback? This is a really pragmatic guide to thinking about rollback as well as rollout when planning your systems. Rollback can be an important part of incident response and we shouldn't underestimate how hard it can be.

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Why You Should Design for Feature Rollbacks (Not Just Rollouts)

You’ve just shipped a shiny new feature. Everything seems perfect… until users start flooding your...

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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 31/07/2025

The fucking audacity of _this_ particular government asking subsequent governments to not revert changes. I'll vote for whoever runs on repealing all their dumbshit changes.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It's likely the FSU candidates get into the board of INZ. However the AGM votes have prevented the reactionary attempt to undermine the constitution and structure of the organisation. Next year, we do this again.

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Now for three years of making Jonathan Ayling miserable.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If you joined InternetNZ to help stop the takeover by rhe FSU and Hobson's Pledge, you've done some great work tonight Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#InternetNZ All of the FSU member motions have been defeated. :)

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#InternetNZ Motions 14 & 15 defeated too by 68.7% and 68.5%of the votes, respectively.

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#InternetNZ Motion 13 defeated by 68.7% of the votes.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#InternetNZ Motions 11 & 12 defeated too by ≥66.2% of the votes.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#InternetNZ Motions 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 defeated too by ≥64.7% of the votes.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#InternetNZ David Fararr's first 3 motions got defeated by 2/3 of the votes cast and now we know how many FSU-aligned people are attending and voting at the AGM.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This woman led a community out of the worst racist terror attack this country has seen since the NZ Wars, you think she has two shits to give about David Farrar

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

After this 15-motions time wasting that we are having to defeat.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This govt ran on expanding cancer screening and $250 extra money every fortnight and we got FBI offices and nurses who aren’t getting paid and butter no one can afford. Nice one.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If the FSU loses they will claim the election was hacked.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If these first 3 get defeated, it will tell us how the other 12 will do.

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Vote against them all e te whānau

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 31/07/2025

Reminder that if you are here to prevent a FSU takeover of the constitution, you should vote AGAINST for ALL 15 Members Motions. #InternetNZ AGM

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Brooke @curly.kiwi · 31/07/2025

Relevant to anyone in the InternetNZ AGM who, like me, has had trouble understanding what the FSU is attempting to do with its amendments. Hopefully this can help guide your votes tonight

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 31/07/2025

If any #InternetNZ members had been put off participating in tonight's AGM and votes because of the long duration -- the voting on Members Motions will begin in a few minutes if you have the time to join now.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

1054 members in the meeting and 10% needed support. Not bad, support team.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

At least, no matter what, nobody will have grounds to complain that they did not have a fair chance to vote. Boy if the Board is not being super careful with that one. We are a full 30 minutes into intro, explaining, giving people eons of time to cast those first votes, plus extra time for support.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 31/07/2025

ANYWAY if you’re trans, non-binary, takatāpui, or gender diverse in any way anywhere in Aotearoa the clinic is free, takes self referrals, available via telehealth, and somehow still only has a 6 month wait (or at least it did at the start of the year). Deets here!

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Gender Affirmation | University of Canterbury

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

There's a very helpful guide to voting by @amscraig.bsky.social posted to LinkedIn a fortnight ago, www.linkedin.com/posts/amberc... Since not everyone's there (or wants to be) re-published it on Google Docs docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Kia ora e te whānau,

📢 This post is on InternetNZ Board elections 📢

✅️ Voting System ✅️
InternetNZ uses a form of STV (single transferable vote), which is also called choice voting.

You will get to vote for your preferred candidate. That means you list them from 1 (preferred) to 13 (least preferred).

Once the top candidate is elected, all their votes for 2nd preferred candidates will be reallocated for election. Helping to elect the 2nd person.

✅️ Rank your preferred candidates from 1 (preferred) to however many you want to vote for.
❌️ Do not allocate numbers to candidates who you absolutely do not want to see on the InternetNZ Board. I.e. they're racist or bigots etc.

Candidacy recommendations, my system is as below:
✅️ I would vote and recommend them
❔️ I dont know enough about this candidate
❌️ I would not vote for them

✅️ Adam Hunt
✅️ Bianca Grizhar
❌️ Brynn Neilson
❌️ Douglas Brown
✅️ Dylan Reeve
❌️ Jonathan Ayling
✅️ Kaye-Maree Dunn (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Mahanga, Kahungunu)
❔️ Maureen Hilyard
✅️ Peter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto and Ngāti Kahu)
❔️ Roger Brown
❔️ Seth Kenlon
✅️ Suzie Tingley
❔️ Toby Cunliffe-Steel

Overall I'm not going to tell you how to vote and if there is a candidate you know really well that you want to vote for kei te pai.

But this is a guide for those that may be new to InternetNZ and don't know the environment well. From someone who has spent over a decade involved in some form with InternetNZ.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So many on Bluesky are calling on members to participate. bsky.app/search?q=+In... Please do to secure InternetNZ's future, & stop institutional capture by a far-right network with transnational tentacles hell bent on undermining NZ's liberal democracy, & vital Māori/Te Tiriti relationships. #nzpol

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The FSU's amendments would transform #InternetNZ from embodying Te Tiriti partnership, & centring Māori to treating cultural inclusion as optional - rejecting its constitutional framework since 2018, & enduringly undermining its ability to serve all communities in NZ. The FSU poses a serious threat.

Table showing impact of proposed constitutional amendments on InternetNZ across eight governance elements.
Te Tiriti Partnership: Current embedded interpretation clauses would be completely removed, violating 2018 commitments and damaging legitimacy as .nz steward.
Māori Governance Participation: Minimum three Māori Board members plus appointed member requirements eliminated, enabling complete exclusion of tangata whenua.
Cultural Competency: Mandatory Board expertise in te ao Māori reduced to optional "diversity", preventing effective Māori collaboration.
Accountability Mechanisms: Multiple grounds including reputational harm weakened with "disrepute" provisions removed, eliminating recourse for Treaty relationship damage.
Dispute Resolution: Tikanga-based principles and Māori mediation replaced with generic Western model, removing culturally appropriate pathways.
Leadership Structure: Co-Chairs with Māori representation replaced by traditional Chair/Deputy model, eliminating structural partnership.
Member Obligations: Protection of Society's reputation narrowed to rule compliance only, permitting public undermining of Treaty commitments.
Charitable Objects: Treaty-centred governance support undermined by structural changes, preventing effective Māori collaboration without guaranteed Māori presence.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

There are a dozen amendments proposed by the FSU. I studied them in order to understand FSU's designs on InternetNZ through institutional capture, & hollowing it out. Each amendment is, in my reading, worse than the one before it.

Table analysing how proposed constitutional amendments would impact InternetNZ's governance framework across eight constitutional elements.
Te Tiriti Partnership moves from embedded interpretation clauses to complete removal, violating 2018 commitments and damaging legitimacy as New Zealand's domain steward.
Māori Governance Participation shifts from requiring minimum three Māori Board members plus expertise requirements to no requirements, enabling complete exclusion of tangata whenua.
Cultural Competency changes from mandatory Board expertise in te ao Māori to optional "diversity" considerations, preventing effective Māori collaboration.
Accountability Mechanisms weaken from multiple grounds including reputational harm to limited provisions without "disrepute" clauses, removing recourse for Treaty relationship damage.
Dispute Resolution replaces Tikanga-based principles and Māori mediation with generic Western models only, eliminating culturally appropriate pathways.
Leadership Structure abandons Co-Chairs with Māori representation for traditional Chair/Deputy model, removing structural partnership.
Member Obligations narrow from protecting Society's reputation to rule compliance only, permitting public undermining of Treaty commitments.
Charitable Objects lose Treaty-centred governance support through structural changes, preventing effective Māori collaboration without guaranteed Māori presence in decision-making.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The InternetNZ AGM falls on Thursday. It's a very consequential one. To secure institution's ability to serve all New Zealanders, members must vote down proposed changes to InternetNZ's constitution by the Free Speech Union (FSU) - published on their website. If passed, InternetNZ won't be the same.

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Carlos Cordero @felisnigelus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#InternetNZ All the 15 motions have to be voted down. Please read Jason’s thread. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 24/07/2025

#InternetNZ has just sent out direction on how voting will work, reconfirming that in order to vote on motions you must be present IN THE MEETING at the AGM. So if you're an InternetNZ member who is eligible to vote PLEASE REGISTER AND ATTEND THE AGM!!

How voting on motions will work
This year, the AGM has 24 motions (including 15 Member Motions) submitted for voting. All Members’ Motions will be presented in the sequence shown on our website, where you can review the precise wording of each Member’s Motion and access any supporting information.

Voting on motions will take place in real time using the Zoom-integrated Mi-Voice voting app.

On 31 July, Eligible Members who have registered for the AGM, will receive a Unique Voter Code (UVC) directly from Mi-Voice, which will allow each member to access the app during the AGM.

Results will be shared live during the AGM.

Ordinary Motions require a simple majority (over 50%) of votes cast for each motion.

Constitutional Motions require a two-thirds majority of votes cast for each motion.

If you have been a member for less than 3 months, you are not eligible to vote on motions at the AGM and won’t receive a Unique Voter Code (UVC). Eligible members who don’t register before the cutoff date will also not receive a UVC.

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 21/07/2025

What are these #InternetNZ members motions we're voting on? There are 15 members motions to be voted on. They are attempts by conservative factions to modify the new constitution that was voted in earlier this year: internetnz.nz/governance-a... My recommendation is to vote against all motions.

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2025 Annual General Meeting

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 21/07/2025

Once you have successfully registered to attend the #InternetNZ AGM you should receive an email with the subject "You're registered for the InternetNZ AGM 2025". Now make sure you put the meeting in your calendar and ATTEND!

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 21/07/2025

How can you register for the #InternetNZ AGM? If you're an eligible member you should have received an email on the 2025-06-30 with the subject "2025 InternetNZ Annual General Meeting (AGM) notice". This email contains the registration link. For any issues, email membership [at] internetnz.net.nz

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Home

InternetNZ is the home of .nz. We ensure all .nz domain names are available for people and businesses in Aotearoa so they can function and thrive online. We also work for an Internet that benefits all...

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 21/07/2025

If you're an #InternetNZ member remember to register (and ATTEND) the AGM. There are some... exciting... members motions being proposed and only those in attendance at the meeting can vote! internetnz.nz/governance-a... The AGM is from 5:30pm-8:30pm on July 31st. #kikorangi

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2025 Annual General Meeting

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 21/07/2025

If you're an #InternetNZ member and you haven't yet voted in the board election - go vote!! #kikorangi

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