Toitū te Tiriti Lawyer, Tania Waikato who has become prominent online with sharing legal advise, tutorials about how to write submissions against the racist Regulatory Standards Bill here in New Zealand has been banned from Facebook.
Her content was civil, polite and factual. It only served to enlighten people of the impacts of the bill should it be passed.
On the surface, I would say it was a co ordinated strategy of a collective all making continued complaints against her materials. Facebook would have taken it down until it is properly assessed.
It does strongly appears as though the right wing anti Māori groups that have publicly denounced Te Tiriti and make false claims that Māori have special rights, have seen the truth and en mass of Māori and non Māori taking a stand against yet another racist piece of legislation, are afraid.
This is a new form of political interference and cyber activism via social media by anti Māori groups. It has always been a tool to use, but I don’t believe it has been used to politically silence minority groups in the past.
Again, this raises the need for Aotearoa to have a conversation about digital sovereignty.
Tina Ngata has a TikTok video here. https://www.tiktok.com/@kokatee/video/7514077588424297746?_r=1&_t=ZS-8x4YdoeM2Nc