Illegal and harmful content: resources for supporting young people
Here at the Classification Office, it's our job to protect New Zealanders from harmful content. To help us do our job well, we talk with young people about their experiences online. In our consultation report, Content that Crosses the Line: Conversations with young people about extremely harmful content online, we spoke with rangatahi to better understand their experiences navigating extremely harmful content; the real yucky stuff. This is the kind of content that crosses the legal line, and we can ban because of the harm it can cause.
We have created resources informed by the consultation, our classification work, and our ongoing research. These resources includes insights from young people and what it means for adults supporting them. They have been peer reviewed by Youthline NZ and clinical psychologist Dougal Sutherland from Umbrella Wellbeing.
Resources available on our site providing guidance and support on the following topics:
What rangatahi tell us about seeing extreme content online
How do we talk with our kids about seeing harmful content online?
Blogs about illegal and extremely harmful content
Understanding the legal line: Protecting ourselves from harmful content - a blog by Chief Censor Caroline Flora
Supporting young people in a changing online world - a guest blog by Dougal Sutherland
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