A Regulator With No Rulebook Has Decided What Online Speech Is AcceptableYesterday the Broadcasting Standards Authority upheld its first complaints against an online broadcaster. Nothing about online speech should be decided under that model while Parliament works out what replaces it. “If New Zealanders want online speech regulated, that is a decision for Parliament, with the Bill of Rights Act in front of it,” said Heather. Jurisdiction was decided separately in interlocutory decision ID2025-063, published 1 April 2026, the first time the Authority has claimed jurisdiction over an online broadcaster. Fairness was held to be outside the scope of section 4 for an online broadcast at paragraph [111] of the 11 August decision.