Nz Shooting Stream Video Liveleak
Published 5:02 PM EDT Mar 16, 2019Tough questions are being asked about the role of social media in the wake of the horrific shooting that took the lives of at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques.
Following the Christchurch shooting last week, internet service providers in New Zealand are blocking access to websites that do not respond or refuse to comply to requests to remove reuploads of the shooter’s original live stream., sites like 4chan, 8chan, LiveLeak, and the file-sharing site Mega have all been pulled by ISPs like Vodafone, Spark, and Vocus. The ISPs appear to be blocking access at the DNS level to sites that do not respond to the takedown requests, but it’s unclear how effective the blocks will be. Like most web-level blocks, the restrictions are easy to circumvent through the use of a VPN or alternative DNS settings.Meera Kaushik, external communications adviser for Vodaphone in New Zealand, told Bleeping Computer, “Where material is identified, the site is temporarily blocked and the site is notified, requesting they remove the material.”Websites like Facebook and YouTube don’t appear to have been taken down by the ISPs, but reuploads of the shooter’s video are still circulating on those platforms. Over the weekend, Facebook said that it had removed. YouTube said it had removed an “” of videos of the shooting.Companies are facing new questions on content moderation following the New Zealand attack.
The shooter posted a link to the live stream, and soon after he was apprehended, reuploads were found on other platforms like YouTube and Twitter.Other broadcasters and platforms like Sky New Zealand and Valve have been removing content surrounding the tragedy as well. After Sky News Australia aired clips from the shooter’s video, off the air.
Nz Shooting Stream Video Liveleak Video
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