8chan and 4chan are currently unavailable to New Zealanders trying to load them through a connection from the three telcos.Īt the moment, visitors trying to get to these forums through Spark NZ, Vodafone NZ and Vocus NZ see the message 'The URL has been blocked for security reasons.' Spark NZ, Vodafone NZ, and Vocus NZ agreed to work together to identify and block access at DNS level to such online locations. Telcos take actionĪt least three internet companies operating in New Zealand have made this decision voluntarily and enforce it on a temporary basis against sites that still publish the sensitive materials. Copies of the 17-minute footage spread to other websites, including YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit.Īs mainstream platforms struggled to take down the video and segments of it, some websites continue to make the materials available. A link to the video and a lengthy 'manifesto' appeared on 8chan forum, allegedly shared by the shooter. The attacker live-streamed on his Facebook account his actions that got 49 people killed. In fact, there is a very real possibility that it may have been the “Pearl Harbor” attack in a long campaign against President Trump, designed ultimately to.įollowing the Friday mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, multiple internet service providers (ISP) in the country have blocked access to websites that distribute gruesome content from the incident. Army Psychological Operations Officer and State Department Counterterrorism Contractor OVERVIEW There may be more to the New Zealand shooting event which just occurred than meets the eye.

Other video-streaming sites like TikTok and YouTube require users to have a certain number of followers before they're able to stream live, reports Allyn.By Scott Bennett, Ph.D. Facebook, Twitter and other sites like them have teams of thousands working to moderate content and block violent media from reaching people.įor example Twitch, the site the Buffalo shooter livestreamed on, could make it harder for people to open accounts and instantly upload live videos. Social media companies used to take a mostly hands-off approach to moderating content on their sites, but now more than ever sites are trying to manage the societal problems their sites create, reports Allyn. Experts say social media companies could do more Listen to his discussion on Morning Edition.

'The social media platforms that profit from their existence need to be responsible for monitoring and having surveillance, knowing that they can be, in a sense, an accomplice to a crime like this, perhaps not legally but morally,' Hochul said.Īllyn reports that social media companies usually are not held liable for what they don't police on their sites.

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