He is doing his bit by making it easier for citizens to deal with the town hall online: internet connections, he says, are more common than mains sewerage.
Bathed in red and white lights and cheered on by a capacity audience of about 1,500 at the Auckland town hall, the internet entrepreneur turned political party founder sat alongside journalist Glenn Greenwald at a table emblazoned, in case there was any doubt, with the words the Moment of Truth.
He suggested that Google's warning message was instead intended to create "warm, fuzzy feelings about Google" in the "halls of Internet governance organizations".
It will, in many ways, be a rerun of last year's national identity debate, when town halls and internet chat rooms across the land teemed with racist invective.
The success of populist parties appealing to a sense of lost national identity has brought criticism of minorities, immigrants and in particular Muslims out of the beer halls and Internet chat rooms and into mainstream politics.
For more than a year, CBS ' digital tsar, Quincy Smith, worked the halls of Internet industry events, shaking hands, smiling, chatting and answering one question: So what's the plan?
This can be achieved by providing computer halls with internet connections on campus and at university dorms.
>25 years (1.6, 1.1 2.9), single versus married with female or cohabited with males (2.1, 1.2 3.6), and seeking male sex partners via bar/dance halls versus Internet (1.8, 1.8 2.8).
Steve Priest, once Brewster's Fast Eddie, now the owner of the pool hall, blames the Internet.
But what had happened between dining hall cleanup and Internet gold rush?
