The Na‘i Aupuni constitutional convention voted Thursday to open up its proceedings to gavel-to-gavel Internet streaming but rejected a proposal to allow observers into the hall.

The moves, confirmed by social media videos and posts from inside the Royal Hawaiian Golf Club in Maunawili, capped the fourth day of the monthlong landmark convention, or aha, to consider proposals for Native Hawaiian governance.

Thursday’s agenda featured a talk by University of Hawaii law professor Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie, who spoke on U.S. constitutional issues and ceded lands.

For the fourth straight day, veteran Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte tried to crash the hall. In the morning he and a couple dozen Native Hawaiians met a group of sympathetic convention participants at the locked country club gate and implored them to allow observers to view the proceedings.

Amid chanting and songs, the protesters handed the aha attendees a heavy boulder to remind them that they have the weight of the Hawaiian people to keep in mind. The boulder was taken into the hall.

Following debate in the afternoon, live streaming of the convention was approved in a 75-21 vote, but it did not come without limitations: Breakouts and small group discussion will not be streamed, and participants can choose not to be recorded. The aha also reserved the right to end recording at any time.

A proposal to let observers in the hall died 72-24, with seven abstentions. Under a proposal, 15 observers would have been able to view a live feed from another room at the country club. They would have been prohibited from the convention floor, though allowed in other public areas. Any disruptive behavior would have resulted in immediate removal and a permanent ban.

Ritte posted on his Facebook that keeping Hawaiians out is “a sad reflection of who we are today.”

“Can’t wait till they come to the community (that they locked out) with their end product,” he wrote. “I’m going to save my energy for that battle!”

In other actions, the convention voted to adopt the standard meeting rules known as Roberts Rules of Order and elected moderators Kuumeaaloha Gomes and Peter Adler to serve as co-chairmen until new leaders are elected next week.

As previously planned, the convention’s first week is dedicated to education and organizing. UH professor Davianna McGregor, also a convention participant, is today’s speaker on kingdom law.