On March 14, 2019, New Zealand sustained its deadliest mass shootings in modern history when a lone gunman, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, killed 50 people and injured another 50 at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. The media immediately identified Tarrant as that most noxious of all monsters - “an alt-right affiliated white supremacist”. The gunman recorded and streamed on Facebook Live a video of the first attack at Al Noor Mosque, with 4,000 overall views before it was taken down.
The video is banned by the New Zealand government because it is deemed “objectionable” - whatever that means. Yo uTube went so far as to intentionally disable search filters so that people cannot find the video or other Christchurch shooting materials.Īnyone who possesses or shares the video is threatened with 10-14 years in prison corporations (such as web hosts) face an additional $200,000 ($137,000 US) fine under the same law.Įven without being asked by the New Zealand government, mainstream U.S.-owned platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Scribd eagerly complied with the ban by scrubbing the video and the shooter’s manifesto. Websites such as Dissenter, Zero Hedge, 4chan, 8chan, and video hosting platform LiveLeak, among others, which hosted footage of the attacks or simply allowed people to engage in uncensored discussion of the shootings, have been partially or completely blocked in both New Zealand and Australia for the sake of “protecting consumers,” according to New Zealand Telecom, the privately-owned telecommunications provider. 8chan is a messaging board where the shooter was suspected to have developed and published his manifesto prior to the attack. Following a mass shooting at a Christchurch mosque on Friday 15 March, three New Zealand ISPs have blocked access to the websites 8chan, 4chan and LiveLeak. In an open letter to Facebook, Twitter and Google, New Zealand telecom CEOssaid the suppression hasn’t gone far enough, and urged that U.S. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed in. social media follow European proposals for hyper-vigilant policing of content for the sake of “protecting consumers”. “You may be aware that on the afternoon of Friday 15 March, three of New Zealand’s largest broadband providers, Vodafone NZ, Spark and 2degrees, took the unprecedented step to jointly identify and suspend access to web sites that were hosting video footage taken by the gunman related to the horrific terrorism incident in Christchurch.Īs key industry players, we believed this extraordinary step was the right thing to do in such extreme and tragic circumstances. Other New Zealand broadband providers have also taken steps to restrict availability of this content….
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In our time of movies, TV and video games saturated with over-the-top violence, why would the New Zealand government take such extreme measures to prevent its citizens from seeing the video? But hopefully we have made it more difficult for this content to be viewed and shared – reducing the risk our customers may inadvertently be exposed to it and limiting the publicity the gunman was clearly seeking.” We also accept it is impossible as internet service providers to prevent completely access to this material. #LIVELEAK NEW ZEALAND MOSQUE SHOOTING VIDEO TV#
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