Defence minister Luke Pollard says the government has ordered social media companies to remove videos that glorify joyriding from their platforms. The reporting frames this as a government intervention aimed at limiting the spread of such content online.
The sources provided repeat the same core point: that Pollard states an order has been issued to social media firms to take the videos down. No additional details are included in the excerpts about enforcement timelines, specific platforms, or the legal or regulatory basis for the order. Similarly, there is no information here on how the companies are responding or whether any criteria are being used to identify videos for removal.
Overall, the coverage in the supplied material focuses on the directive itself and does not include contrasting viewpoints, evidence of effectiveness, or broader context on prior enforcement actions regarding similar content.
