JUNE 06, 2024 

 

Simon Anderson 

[1][email address] 

 

 

To Simon 

 

Request for access to information held by Netsafe 

 

Thank you for your correspondence of April 26, 2024 where you requested: 

 1. A copy of every censoring request or order, or so called "take down"
request or order made by Netsafe to the online entities Meta,
Facebook, X (nee Twitter), Rumble, Tiktok, Instagram between the dates
of 01.01.2024 and 24.04.2024 and; 

 2. A copy of any correspondence to or from Netsafe that contain any of
the following key terms: Hobson, Hobson's Pledge, Brash, Don Brash
between the dates of 01.01.2024 and 24.04.2024. 

 

As an initial comment, Netsafe does not make censoring requests or orders.
We do, however, ask online content hosts to consider information that has
been reported to us that alleges a violation of that content host’s own
terms and conditions. In such a case we may ask that the online content
host review the information in light of their own terms and conditions and
take appropriate action. We have interpreted your request as covering
these sorts of requests. 

 

Netsafe has completed an initial search for the information you have
requested. We estimate that this request, as it’s currently described,
would require over 50 hours of our time to further identify, extract and
collate the relevant material. Netsafe is a small organisation with
limited resources and complying with this request is likely to have a
significant and unreasonable impact on our ability to carry out our other
operations. Netsafe may therefore seek to refuse your request under s18(f)
of the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) on the basis that the
information cannot be made available without substantial collation or
research. 

 

Please let us know on or before 13 June 2024 whether you are prepared to
amend or clarify your request and, if so, how. For example, amalgamating
your requests 1 and 2 into a single request for “reports” (rather than all
“correspondence”) that mention “Hobson’s Pledge” (including “Hobson” in
the context of “Hobson’s Pledge”) or “Don Brash” (including “Brash” in the
context of “Don Brash”) is likely significantly to narrow the scope of
your request. Note that by requesting a “report” this would also include
any request made to an online content host in the context of that report
to review content in accordance with that online content host’s own terms
and conditions.  

 

Please note that even if you reduce the scope of your request, Netsafe’s
charging policy for OIA requests, in line with [2]the standard charging
regimes set by the Ministry of Justice, would still apply to the amended
request.  
 
Please let us know if you would like Netsafe to proceed with your request
as currently worded or if you would like to reduce the scope of the
information requested.  
 

Regards, 
 

Netsafe 

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information sharing policy (https://www.netsafe.org.nz/privacy-policy/).
This sets out the information we collect, why we collect it and how it may
be used. CAUTION

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