"We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware." "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," Facebook tweeted. Reuters was unable to confirm the authenticity of the footage. Shanks said, according to the AP, that he and his team worried that the censorship would bring more attention to the document, but said it had to treat it the same way as terrorist propaganda.Worshippers, possibly dead or wounded, lay huddled on the floor, the video showed.
We are not able to learn how mad this guy was, what his thinking was, until everything is out in the light." He said: "They said when we start to censor ourselves, we just make him into a martyr. He told the AP that during Breivik's trial reporters only reported court proceedings and left out discussions of his far-right ideology, which angered some family members of the victims. Outlets blurred his face at the request of the judge.Ĭlaus Blok Thomsen, a Danish journalist who covered the trial of Norwegian far-right mass shooter Anders Breivik - who killed 77 people in 2011, and who inspired Tarrant - also said the censorship risks making Tarrant a martyr. "The damage and risks are greater from suppressing these things than they are from trusting people to form their own conclusions and to see evil or madness for what it is," he added.īrenton Tarrant makes an inverted "OK" symbol during his first court appearance after 49 people were shot dead in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Stephen Franks, a spokesman for New Zealand's Free Speech Coalition, told The Associated Press the ban could make people more intrigued by the document as it now seems like "forbidden fruit."
Some experts, however, have questioned the ban, saying that it risks turning the gunman a martyr, lending legitimacy to his far-right ideology. For decades, the southern city of Christchurch also has been the center of the country's small but persistent white supremacist movement. The leafy New Zealand city where a self-proclaimed racist fatally shot 50 people at mosques during Friday prayers is known for its picturesque meandering river and English heritage. In this Saturday, March 16, 2019, file photo, flowers lay at a memorial near the Masjid Al Noor mosque for victims in last week's shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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