The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
A couple of days ago my co-blogger PDM had an article, Rawiri and Debbie Have You Read This, which directed them to a quote from a Maori guy that PDM had come across in a Kiwiblog General Debate:
Where Is the Iwi? Asking for a Struggling Māori
The writer was one Matua Kahurangi and he took a flamethrower to Iwi in general and one in particular:
Ngāpuhi, I’m looking at you. The country’s largest Iwi, still sitting on a settlement payout that never seems to settle anything. Have you taken a stroll through Kaikohe lately? The vape shops are booming, the liquor stores have queues before sunrise, and the local meth dealer is running a more successful business model than half the Māori trusts combined. And yet, we have whānau living in tents down the road, behind the park, wondering if the Iwi is actually just a myth
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I’ll tell you where the money is, bro—sitting in the driveways of the Iwi executives, parked up in the form of brand-new SUVs and flash as houses.
PDM wondered if this was real and after some searching I found his X-account, complete with AI-generated images so possibly some White guy having sarcastic fun (supporter of ACT and their Treaty Principles Bill).
Well it appears he is real according to Substack journalist, Simon Anderson:
Yesterday I inadvertently outraged the leftists and the separatists by publicly attesting that Matua is a real person whilst not satiating their desire for cancellation by divulging his identity.
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Matua Kahurangi has spoken to me personally, I have heard his voice. He possesses a broad Kiwi accent instantly recognisable to any New Zealander as belonging to a middle-aged Maori bloke.
What sparked Anderson’s interest was that he’d begun to pick up social media outrage from Leftists about Kahurangi’s scathing takes on the Maori elites they’re so in love with. See examples of the hate at Anderson’s link.
If you were tempted to move to the next stage of dismissal – that none of this matters because it’s just the usual Internet noise – some of those Iwi elits and RNZ are now in the loop,
The chairperson of Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi O Ngāpuhi has hit back at a social media post featuring AI generated imagery of the rūnanga logo “pitting brown against brown”.
The post, which was taken from X and shared on Facebook, features an artificial image of a Māori man with a facial moko standing in front of a red ute and a visible rūnanga logo.
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Speaking to RNZ, Ngāpuhi chair Mane Tahere said some whānau were confused as to who wrote the post, believing it was a genuine post from his rūnanga.
“It’s been widely shared and within our own networks. A lot of concerned emails and phone calls from some of our beneficiaries and whānau here because it has Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi O Ngāpuhi logo.
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Tahere called the content of the post “outdated” and said it relied on stereotypes surrounding Māori “elitism” and Rūnanga mismanagement.
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Tahere said while some of the posts were meant to be satirical, he did not find them funny.
No, I’ll bet you didn’t old boy.
Which shows that Mr Kahurangi understands the same thing that a famous Jewish shitstirrer did:
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage
No Minister 
Spotted this same guy On X… Just saying it like it is.
Used to be the symbolic ‘I’ve arrived’ Ford Falcons, now it is Ford Rangers and/or BiG SUV’s.
Plus of course the over-sized bone and (imported jade) neck attire.
Our problem is that we are all talking about things and doing nothing that will change them.
The internet and social media have encouraged everyone to believe that stating their opinions will “make a difference”.
It does not because the political “Game of Thrones” is still played and won by a small minority of people with influence in the main political parties who don’t care what the “common people” think or want.
These social, economic and political elites self righteously assume that only they have the ability and entitlement to decide what is “for the common good” and use the authority of government to impose their decisions on the rest of us.
We are their “children” that should be dependent upon and obedient to them “for our own good”.
The only way for the common people to be heard is to participate in and gain more influence in the main political parties, even though that is discouraged by the elite members and “donors” that make the decisions.
These “glorious leaders” regard Liberal Democracy as “tyranny of the majority” that is detrimental to their own ambitions and agendas but they cannot really stop more “commoners” from joining and gaining influence in their parties by pretending to accept and “toe the party line”.
Instead of whining and complaining among ourselves, like peasants always do, we “common folk” could INFILTRATE, DISRUPT AND TAKE OVER one more of the main political parties to re-instate Liberal Democracy.
That will not happen unless we get off of our computers and into the political GAME OF THRONES as players instead of spectators.
There was once a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas.
The second edition was bound in the skins of those who had laughed at the first.
Thomas Carlisle
I don’t recall Rousseau actually doing “the skinning”.
Ideas did not achieve anything unless enough people we have never heard of did what was necessary.
The “Enlightened” ideas of Rousseau and many other philosophers contributed to the revolutions against the 18th century elites but it was the common people that did the fighting.
Has the Enlightenment idea of inalienable, equal Natural Rights to life, personal freedom, property and ownership of our own bodies really been achieved?
No. It seems more likely that in 2025 we are going back to a social system that is more like the one before “The Enlightenment” that the sort that Rousseau envisaged.
Hi.
As I recall, Rousseau promoted the theory of the Noble Savage as an alternative to prevailing one of the cruel, primitive, ignorant savage.
Marx and Engels included this in their ideology and the Modern Marists promote it in theirs.
The assumption is that the “indigenous” hunters and gatherers lived in a Utopian existence that white males from Europe destroyed and we all need to re-create it.
The reality is that all members of our species always had and still have the ability to be noble or savage and can decide which we prefer to become. If they want to.
The fallacy of the “indigenous” ideology is that we can never go back to the past. We can only learn from the past and try to make the future better for all of us.
The reality is that we are all members of the same species and that species cannot survive unless most of us learn to care for, help, love one another and cooperate for our mutual benefit as though we are the individuals cells that make up the organs in our human bodies.
Not all cells/individuals can do this.
Many become malignant and destructive in order to promote their own survival at the expense of the rest and the entire organism.
The organism I am talking about is our species.
The malignant cells are the people that have been corrupted by Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth and Wrath.
This is not news.
Wise people of past time figured it all out for us.
Why are we to dumb to understand it?