“If you see this video or any objectionable material online, you can help take it down by reporting the incident to the online platform it is hosted by. “We are working with social media platforms, who are actively removing this content as soon as they are made aware of an instance of it being posted. This is a very real tragedy with real victims and we strongly encourage people to not share or view the video. “The content of the video is disturbing and will be harmful for people to see. The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) advises that people who share the video of the shooting today in Christchurch are likely to be committing an offence.Ī DIA spokesperson says that the video is likely to be objectionable content under New Zealand law.
But unfortunately, we haven’t seen anything like that.”īari, who hid in a bathroom at the Linwood mosque as the shooter killed people just feet away, said he tries not to think about that day too much but is reminded when he meets his friends, including one family that lost both a father and a son.Sharing of Christchurch shooting video likely to be against the law We are still waiting to see what the U.S.A. “We saw some measures taken by the government immediately after. “We saw in New Zealand the gun control thing,” said Muti Bari, another survivor from the Christchurch attacks. Police paid owners to hand over their guns and destroyed more than 50,000 of them. The Christchurch attacks also prompted the New Zealand government within weeks to pass new laws banning the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons. Twitch said it removed the video in less than two minutes. The Buffalo shooter allegedly livestreamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon.
Since Christchurch, social platforms have learned to remove videos of extremist shootings faster. The video and Tarrant’s screed were quickly banned in New Zealand but can still be found in dark corners of the internet.
The Christchurch attack was livestreamed for 17 minutes and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook before it was taken down.
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