"These ISPs have sought to balance community expectations to remove access to the video with the need to minimise any inconvenience that may arise from legitimate content being blocked as an unavoidable, temporary consequence." "Due to the extraordinary circumstances, several large ISPs in Australia have taken the decision to voluntarily implement temporary blocks of websites that continue to host footage of the Christchurch terrorist attack video," Stanton said. Optus referred questions about LiveLeak to the Communications Alliance, whose chief executive, John Stanton, spoke more generally about the blocks.
Optus, Telstra and Vodafone were approached for comment on their decision to block LiveLeak. "Currently, judging by media coverage and reactions online, he's getting almost exactly what he wanted. He planned not just the murders but also the chaos he would sow with his manifesto which reads like the fevered dream of a fully fledged 'shitposter'." "The Christchurch shooter wasn't just some random 'nutcase'. LiveLeak told its users in a statement on Monday that it was refusing to carry the video because it did not want to "indulge" the perpetrator by carrying his propaganda and that it had received "no small number of complaints" regarding the fact that it would not carry the video of the shooting in New Zealand, streamed live on Facebook. The video initially appeared on LiveLeak, but was soon scrubbed and is no longer available in searches. Many mainstream media outlets have also shown the video on their site, including, which remains accessible.īut LiveLeak, a video sharing site known for often showing disturbing content, has been blocked by Telstra, Vodafone and Optus. Guardian Australia understands this is because they are taking active steps of their own to remove the material from their pages. The decision was made independently by telcos following industry-wide discussions, without any direction from law enforcement or the courts.įacebook and Twitter were not targeted, despite hosting the video. The blocks are temporary and will be lifted when the footage is removed. None of the three telcos would say which sites had been blocked. Telstra, Vodafone and Optus have all confirmed they are actively blocking Australian customers on their networks from accessing websites that hosted the Christchurch terror video. Sky New Zealand pulled Sky News Australia off its network on Saturday because the latter was broadcasting video clips from the shooter’s Facebook livestream.A site that explicitly stated it would not host the horrific Christchurch terror video has been blocked by Australian telcos in an "extraordinary" effort to censor dozens of websites. The distressing footage of the Christchurch shootings were not only disseminated on social media. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she wants to discuss the issue of live streaming with Facebook. “So social media companies – which have played a role in this, albeit not through their intent – have something to answer for and need to act further to prevent this.” “That spread far, and then the video spread far and wide, and may never be successfully taken down,” Roose continued. “The perpetrator was highly reliant on social media – not only for inspiration – but also in the way that he’s used a GoPro cam to livestream the attack and, immediately prior to the attack, sent out his manifesto and stored it in a number of areas so that it couldn’t be quickly taken down,” said Dr Joshua Roose, a senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, in an interview with FRANCE 24. Images of the attack were also shared on WhatsApp and Instagram, two services owned by Facebook, as well as on Twitter and YouTube.
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