How to improve the Aotearoa New Zealand Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harms? Foreword Paul Hunt, Chief Human Rights Commissioner Earlier this year, Te Kāhui Tika Tāngata | New Zealand Human Rights Commission published a briefing called The communication revolution, human rights, and te Tiriti o Waitangi. It outlines a human rights and te Tiriti o Waitangi approach to the communication revolution in Aotearoa New Zealand. By communication revolution, I refer to new inter-related technologies including the internet, smart phones, social media platforms, algorithmic recommendation systems shaped by artificial intelligence, and generative artificial intelligence, such as Google Bard, MidJourney, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4. These developments are enormous, complex, and historic. Sometimes they appear overwhelming. One of the challenges is to identify and deliver manageable contributions in relation to these huge multidimensional issues. The contributions may be modest but, if we work together, we can help to ensure today’s communication revolution does not erode, but deepens, our democracy. The present report builds on The communication revolution, human rights, and te Tiriti o Waitangi, as well as the work of countless others. Last year, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google (YouTube), Tiktok, Twitch, and Twitter (now X) signed the Aotearoa New Zealand Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harms. The five signatory digital platforms contributed to the drafting of this voluntary Code. 1