Six Charged in New Zealand for Sharing Mosque Shooting Video Online

Rolling Stone ^ | April 15, 2019 | E.J. Dickson

[Trump20162020]

New Zealand police have charged six people with illegally redistributing live-streamed videos and images of the March 15th shootings at Christchurch mosques. They’re being charged with supplying or distributing objectionable material, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

Philip Arps, 44, and an unnamed suspect, 18, appeared in court on Monday in front of a New Zealand judge.

The 18-year-old suspect is accused of sharing livestreamed footage of the attack, as well as a still image of one of the mosques targeted with the caption “target acquired.” Both he and Arps were denied bail.

Shortly after the attacks, New Zealand’s chief censor David Shanks issued a statement announcing that the shooter’s manifesto and footage had been banned under the Films Videos and Publications Classification Act (FVPCA) 1993, an act that bans the dissemination of “objectionable” content, defined as content that “describes, depicts, expresses, or otherwise deals with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of the publication is likely to be injurious to the public good.” In the past, ISIS propaganda has also received similar classification.

Of the video footage specifically, Shanks said, “every New Zealander should now be clear that this clip is an illegal, harmful and reprehensible record created to promote a terrorist cause. If you have a record of it, you must delete it. If you see it, you should report it,” he said. “Possessing or distributing it is illegal, and only supports a criminal agenda.”

[Lurker]

“New Zealand’s chief censor David Shanks“

How very 1984.

L

[Gasshog]

Down Under the Memory Hole.

[rllngrk33]

George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm were supposed to be cautionary tales, not how to books. New Zealand has now officially gone over to the dark side.

[an amused spectator]

Thoughtcrime

[Fungi]

Any different than a hate crime?

[TigersEye]

Who needs muslims when you’ve got fascists in the government?

[rawcatslyentist]

I actually watched one of the banned vids.

Hilarious!

Made the bomb magnet lady look almost believable.

[glasseye]

‘Wrong think’.
Yea, I saved it.

[Phillyred]

Wow. Chief censor. Freedom much?

[marktwain]

Rolling Stone celebrating censorship they approve of.

[glasseye]

“objectionable” content...
“Better to be a subject than a citizen?”
‘They’ are more afraid of the ‘manifesto’ than the video.
The video is shocking, dehumanizing.
But the manifesto is spot on, and that is what scare the multicultural Nazis.
Any resistance is RACIST...or so they say.

[AAABEST]

They’re being charged with supplying or distributing objectionable material, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

14 years for "distributing objectionable material."

lol... wut?

[alexander_busek]

[...] an act that bans the dissemination of "objectionable" content, defined as content that [...] Of the video footage specifically, Shanks said, "every New Zealander should now be clear that this clip is an illegal, harmful and reprehensible record created to promote a terrorist cause. If you have a record of it, you must delete it."

Illegal to DISSEMINATE, or also to merely POSSESS? Which is it?

Also: Talke about overly broad prohibitions!

Regards,

[MNDude]

https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=8859Y6RMRMW5&fbclid=IwAR0HWvN447rrshZ_x41nurgRVzwD8bJQQvi-i1Pf3O_mcYFJRXgNqAbVZYk

Here’s a video of the aftermath.

[gaijin]

This makes sense.

Were the video legal and popular, NZ public attitudes might shift in a direction impeding full destruction of Western Civ there:

Things are still early in the incubation period in NZ.

The aim is for the two large Abrahamic Religions to destroy one another.

And then another group will be able to create Heaven On Earth, fiiinally get socialism right, now that they have the right people and computers, dance around the golden calf, etc.

[laplata]

I also saw one of the videos. It was hilarious when the narrator saw a guy in a blue or green jacket lay down and sarcastically said “That guy just died, ha ha” …..or something to that effect.

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[laplata]

Thanks for posting the video. What a friggin farce that is.

“The guy in the jacket just died”. Lol