Courts of New Zealand bolt from X to Bluesky’s pedo-friendly echo chamber

The official Courts of New Zealand account just nuked its presence on X with this whimper of a farewell tweet:

“You will now find Courts of New Zealand updates on our other social media channels. Visit the Courts of New Zealand website to find out more: sen.nz/5vtq73”

Translation: “We’re out. Don’t @ us anymore. Go subscribe to our email list like good little sheep.”

Let’s talk numbers, because reality doesn’t lie even if our courts do. Their X account had built a respectable following of around 6,300 Kiwis who actually cared enough to hit follow for judgments, lists, and the occasional judicial word salad.

Now? They’ve pivoted to their shiny new Bluesky account. How many followers there? A pathetic 260, depending on the hour you check. That’s not a migration. That’s a funeral procession for relevance. Congrats, courts. You’ve traded an audience that actually engages for a ghost town run by people who think “engagement” means circle-jerking in safe spaces.

But here’s the part that’s not surprising at all: Bluesky has become a notorious haven for accounts that openly brag about being “MAPs” – Minor Attracted Persons, the cutesy rebrand pedophiles use to launder their sickness into something that sounds like a support group for lactose intolerance. These aren’t fringe weirdos hiding in the dark web. They’re out in the open, posting flags, demanding “destigmatisation,” and pushing the same normalisation playbook that’s been tried (and rightly rejected) everywhere else. Whole threads, whole communities. Heaps of them. Treating attraction to kids like it’s just another quirky identity to celebrate with parades and pronouns.

Make it make sense.

Or actually, it does make sense when you look at the track record. New Zealand courts have form for treating sex offenders and their enablers with all the steel of a wet noodle. Light sentences, early releases, endless “rehabilitation” programs that somehow never quite rehabilitate. Slaps on the wrist for crimes that destroy lives. While the public screams for actual justice, the judiciary keeps handing out community service and therapy vouchers like it’s a participation trophy ceremony.

No wonder they feel more at home on Bluesky. X under Elon Musk is messy, unfiltered, and lets the public call bullshit in real time. Bluesky? It’s the polite, curated garden where uncomfortable truths get moderated into oblivion and the freaks get to flourish in the undergrowth. Perfect for an institution that’s been soft on predators for years.