Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Andrew Urquhart is joined by Jillaine Heather, CEO of the Free Speech Union, to unpack the government's proposed social media ban for under-16s and why it may be more about electioneering than workable policy. They also dig into the resurfacing debate around adding religion to the Human Rights Act's hate speech provisions, effectively a modern blasphemy law, and what that could mean for freedom of belief and expression in Aotearoa.

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