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>Confirmed. NZ ISPs are blocking access to Liveleak, 4chan, 8ch, a certain farm, Mixtape, Mega, and many other sites that are not complying immediately with th
by r721 8y ago
>Confirmed. NZ ISPs are blocking access to Liveleak, 4chan, 8ch, a certain farm, Mixtape, Mega, and many other sites that are not complying immediately with the takedown orders.
>Even @Bitchute is removing the video mirrors.
https://twitter.com/eldarmark/status/1106463828768747520 https://twitter.com/eldarmark/status/1106463828768747520
>Earlier today Bush said he was aware that footage of the shooting had appeared on social media and police were doing everything they could to get it removed.
>"It shouldn't be in the public domain."
>Facebook Australia-New Zealand policy director Mia Garlick said videos which appeared to show the Christchurch shootings had been taken down.
>"New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter's Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video."
>Spark managing director Simon Moutter said the company was working to close off websites attempting to distribute the footage.
>"Our Spark security experts are working hard to close off the websites attempting to distribute the hateful stuff originating from the perpetrators of the massacre in Christchurch. We hope it causes minimal inconvenience to legitimate internet use by our customers."
>Vodafone NZ spokesman Richard Llewellyn said: "Industry players are working at a technical level now to block some of the hate sites involved in this content."
>Spark spokesman Andrew Pirie said technical staff had identified three primary sites where footage had been posted but there were a number of "copycat" sites popping up.
>The internet providers had joined forces to block access to these sites, he said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213076 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
- snvzz 8y agoThey're using the chance to get every site they can blocked. It's a new take on the good old "think of the children" to erase anything they'd like to for everybody, children or not.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoAnd that's why I'm getting 503 on LiveLeak....