15/04/2019

Teenager Charged For NZ Terror Attack, Face Up To 14 Years In Prison

A teenager is among six people who have appeared in court, charged with distributing video of New Zealand’s deadliest ever mass shooting.
The unnamed 18-year-old was among those charged with sharing a live stream of the video, along with a still image of Christchurch’s Al Noor mosque captioned “target acquired.”
He was remanded in custody, as was businessman Philip Arps, on charges of supplying or distributing objectionable material. The crime carries a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment.
Students display the New Zealand national flag next to flowers during a vigil in Christchurch on March 18, 2019. A man has appeared in court charged with illegally hree days after a shooting incident at two mosques in the city that claimed the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers.
Four other unnamed individuals also appeared in Christchurch District Court on Monday, although none are in custody.
The original footage was broadcast live on Facebook for 17 minutes, and remained up for an hour afterward. The video was then re-uploaded successfully to the social media site more than 1.5 million times, Stuff reported.
There has been anger in the South Pacific country over Facebook’s reaction to the streaming of the killings.
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner John Edwards said Facebook “cannot be trusted,” and also described them as “morally bankrupt pathological liars,” in a tweet he later deleted.
New Zealand’s chief censor has banned both the live streamed footage of the attack and the manifesto written and released by self-confessed white supremacist Brenton Harrison Tarrant, who faces 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges for the attacks on March 15.
Facebook executive Guy Rosen said that the video was viewed fewer than 200 times, and during the attacks the service “did not get a single user report,” (via CBS).
Facebook’s policy director Brian Fisherman told Congress that it failed to detect the live stream because there was “not enough gore” in the video for their algorithm to catch it, according to Newshub.
In neighboring Australia, tough new restrictions on social media giants have been legislated for, and could result in big fines and possible jail terms if websites do not act fast enough to remove terrorist or objectionable footage from their platforms, Stuff reported.The Australian government has met with Facebook, Google, Twitter and telecommunications companies to figure out how to handle future terrorist events.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Facebook will stop users from posting live videos if they have previously broken the company’s community guidelines, an idea first mooted by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

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