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Topic

Internet Age Restrictions

15 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 16 May 2026

The post criticizes age-based internet restrictions as ineffective and outdated, arguing that tech-savvy parents can easily circumvent them using tools like VPNs.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 3 articles
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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Ginny Andersen mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 27 May 2026 26 May · 59s
    They went to the Merritt and Suites at Bath Scott. Anyone who's flown in and out of Sydney would know that hotel's very close to the airport. And they had Domino's pizza delivery, and then they were whisked out of the underground car park sometime later and have headed off into Western Sydney somewhere. A lot of Australians pretty upset and angry about the fact that these women and children, both in Sydney and in Melbourne, uh were allowed to leave by side entrances. They took them away, so they weren't confronted by the media. Maybe that's a precaution by federal police, but I do compare it with what they did to Ben Robert Smith when they dragged him off a plane and marched him across the tarmac, which has uh focused a lot of people's attention. There were riot squad cars at Sydney Airport. No one wonders what they thought was actually going to happen. As I said, there was a violent scuffle in Melbourne when Rossi Emile left the airport through a back door, one of her handlers, and I point out that there were four men standing outside the arrival door at Melbourne Airport dressed in hoodies and masks, all in black.
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Sample framings

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point-of-order Centre-right

pragmatic concerns about feasibility and circumvention

Is Govt really putting the online harm funding before the policy? Here’s a hint…
10 Jun
mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

parental concern over youth exposure

Full Show Podcast: 27 May 2026
26 May
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How the public reacted

Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →

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