"The industry is working together to ensure this harmful content can't be viewed by New Zealanders."įurther Reading Facebook: No one reported NZ shooting video during 17-minute livestream "This is an unprecedented move by the telecommunications industry, but one that they all agree is necessary," New Zealand Telecommunications Forum Chief Executive Geoff Thorn said, according to CIO. The ISPs "agreed to work together to identify and block access at DNS level to such online locations," such as 4chan and 8chan, according to a Bleeping Computer article on Saturday. "The country's main Internet service providers, Spark, Vodafone, Vocus and 2degrees, are blocking any website which has footage of the Friday 15 March Christchurch mosque shootings," CIO New Zealand wrote on Sunday. New Zealand ISPs took a similar approach. "These ISPs have sought to balance community expectations to remove access to the video with the need to minimize any inconvenience that may arise from legitimate content being blocked as an unavoidable, temporary consequence," Communications Alliance said, according to AAP. Still, LiveLeak was blocked even though it took copies of the video off its platform.Ĭommunications Alliance, a trade group that represents Australian telcos, said ISPs tried to minimize inconvenience for users despite blocking websites. Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison called Telstra, Optus, and Vodafone to a meeting to discuss ways to prevent distribution and livestreaming of violent videos, Financial Review wrote. The ISPs are facing some government pressure, though. "The ISPs' decision to block access to websites was controversial as they acted to censor content without instruction from either the Australian Communications and Media Authority or the eSafety Commissioner, and most smaller service providers have decided to keep access open," The Australian Financial Review wrote. "The ban on 4chan was lifted a few hours later," AAP wrote. Besides 4chan and 8chan, ISP-level blocking affected the social network Voat, the blog Zerohedge, video hosting site LiveLeak, and others. Telstra and Optus also blocked the sites in Australia. "This was an extreme case which we think requires an extraordinary response," Vodafone Australia said in a statement, according to an Australian Associated Press (AAP) article yesterday. In Australia, ISP Vodafone said that blocking requests generally come from courts or law enforcement agencies but that this time ISPs acted on their own. New Zealand ISPs have also been blocking websites that host the video. Internet service providers in Australia have temporarily blocked access to dozens of websites, including 4chan and 8chan, that hosted video of last week's New Zealand mass shooting. Getty Images | pictafolio reader comments 216
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