Vaughan Davis

We're deeply involved with it.

Yeah.

So the observable behavior tells me that maybe that trust is a bit of a reporting issue.

There's a great study to be done on that, I think.

And, you know, wait till the next, you know, earthquake, touch wood, happens or the next political crisis or nearby war and just see where the eyeballs go.

watch them turn the radios on or what they log on to or, you know, it's all knowable stuff and that is far more powerful than answering a survey question, do you trust the news, do you trust the internet?

They're not behaviour changing.

Yeah, they don't seem to change behaviour.

And the most recent one, you might be referring to it, was linking, I think, internet use to anxiety and depression in teenagers.

But then the researcher hard on the heels of the headline said, well, actually, we can't really decouple lack of sleep from the internet use or the social media use itself.

So as far as the researcher was concerned, it might just be people are staying up later because they're on their phones.

And that might have been the core effect.

So no, the headlines seem not to be turning people away.

Certainly not in this country or other countries I know about.

Yep.

The percentage of the market they have in New Zealand is probably higher than 20% because the alternatives here are fewer than they might be in a larger country.

Yeah, but I'd argue, I mean, you know, I'm coming across as a bit of a meta fanboy, which I'm not.

We had a case right here in New Zealand, it was before the courts this year or last year, saying exactly what you're talking about except the guy made audio recordings of a sex worker.

So it's the same crime, it's just a different tool.

The creepy versus convenient continuum is a discussion as old as the internet, right?