Democracy runs on information. The entire reason Hansard exists, the reason select committee submissions are published, the reason Parliament broadcasts its debates is that the public has a right to know what is being done in their name. Transparency isn't a feature of Aotearoa New Zealand's democracy; it's the foundation of it. So when a small, quiet technical change makes that information harder to access not just for journalists, not just for researchers, but for the automated tools that have become essential to modern civic monitoring it's worth asking why.