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Ryan Bridge: National needs Labour's support on its social media bill · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Where is National's social media bill at We know that
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  Speaker 1: Seymour doesn't like it. Winston is apparently having conniptions about
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  Speaker 1: the wording of it, so Labour might need to step
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  Speaker 1: in and save the day by supporting it. From across
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  Speaker 1: the aisle. In Australia, half the kids who were on
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  Speaker 1: the social media's are still on the social media's Here
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  Speaker 1: there's no shortage of famous and even big money backers
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  Speaker 1: behind a band. Erica Stamford's of course in charge of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday Jim and McCaul was the latest coming out saying
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  Speaker 1: she was in support of that part of that group
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  Speaker 1: that's wanting a band. Personally, I don't think social media
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  Speaker 1: is a net positive for society. I think it's probably
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  Speaker 1: on balance as a bad thing. But I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we'll ever get rid of it completely. Either doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: really happens. Look at booze, look at cigarettes. You don't
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  Speaker 1: ever really get rid of stuff, do you. And it
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  Speaker 1: won't happen with social media either, which is not a
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  Speaker 1: reason not to do it, of course, But it does
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  Speaker 1: seem like Nationals having a hard time getting it across
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  Speaker 1: the line, which Luxon won't like. Of course, he wants
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  Speaker 1: it strapped up in a bow by election time so
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  Speaker 1: he can go to parents and say your kids will
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  Speaker 1: be saved from the perils of the Internet. So the
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  Speaker 1: ball really is in Hipkins court. Does help Luxon out
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  Speaker 1: and make himself look more prime ministerial above the fray,
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  Speaker 1: as Key did with Helen Clark over the anti smacking Wall.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that probably depends on the actual wording of the bill,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it, which we haven't seen yet, because you can't
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  Speaker 1: back something that won't work or doesn't make sense, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how morally or politically worthy it might be. For
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