The Greens’ Internet Rights and Freedom Bill

The Greens have released a crowdsourced bill – the Internet Rights and Freedoms Bill. It's a serious and valuable contribution to politics and the . There are three major aspects to their proposal.

  1. Ten Internet rights and freedoms
  2. Creation of an Internet Rights Commissioner within the Human Rights Commission
  3. Creating a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for the NZ Government.

The ten proposed Internet rights and freedoms are:

  1. Right to Access
  2. Freedom from search, and
  3. Freedom of expression
  4. Freedom of association
  5. Right to privacy
  6. Right to encryption technology
  7. Right to
  8. Right to a safe and secure Internet
  9. Freedom of
  10. Freedom from restriction

The full bill is here.

While don't agree with everything in the bill, there's a lot I do agree with, and I think it would be an excellent bill to pass first reading and go to select committee for feedback.

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