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This assessment of New Zealanders’ Internet freedom aims to assist human rights monitoring and accountability in New Zealand by enabling an assessment of how New Zealanders experience and perceive their human rights when using the Internet. Our objective is to develop and test a new tool with which the local Internet community can broadly measure (and debate) the current state of their Internet freedom in New Zealand. While this initial report focuses on freedom of expression, we hope to assess other rights and freedoms as our work develops.

Among the Internet community the term “Internet freedom” is often used to describe the free flow of data packets across computer networks and the technical protocols which establish the agreed policies and practices by which that flow of data is enabled.” In this draft report, “Internet freedom” refers to the freedom of people to exercise and enjoy their “human rights” when using the Internet. This report is structured on the framework developed by Frank La Rue (“the La Rue Framework”) and General Comment 34 on Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Conclusion?  "We conclude that out of 29 indicators in the La Rue Framework, New Zealand complies with 14, does not comply with 4, and there are 11 where compliance is unclear. These results surprised us."