Posted on 04/15/2019 8:08:06 PM PDT by Trump20162020
New Zealand police have charged six people with illegally redistributing live-streamed videos and images of the March 15th shootings at Christchurch mosques. Theyre 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 Zealands chief censor David Shanks issued a statement announcing that the shooters 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
I did a Google maps streetview search of that mosque, and sure enough, it was the same place. The view out the window matched up.
I remember you saying that back when it took place. Good work.
That “shooting” was as fake as Obama.
I read that only a few gun owners have actually turned in their guns. Lol
The Reds and Stupids are strong in New Zealand. Been a major factor there since at least the 1970’s. If it hadn’t been for the research/writings of NZer Trevor Loudon, we would never have known how deep the KGB penetration operations went inside the government and “peace movement”.
I wonder if they have a guy named Winston Smith in the government archives, feverishly slaving away to make sure no unallowed truths slip out?
To think I would like to have moved to New Zealand if things continued to get worse in the U.S.
As bad as it is here its better than that socialist paradise.The people have No Rights.
“14 years for “distributing objectionable material.”
And 7 years for murder.
I saw the video....it's breathtakingly cruel and gruesome.But it didn't make me wanna go out and do the same thing...or encourage others to do so.But then again I'm reasonably normal.
Ping for later viewing
So does New Zealand also ban sex education films, Peter Jackson's early horror movies, and crime mysteries, then? Or do they just pull out this vague "law" when it suits them.
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