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Facebook, YouTube, Twitter And Scribd Scramble To Scrub NZ Shooting Evidence

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Facebook, YouTube, Scribd and several other content platforms are scrambling to remove material related to the New Zealand mosque shootings, including footage livestreamed by 28-year-old shooter Brenton Tarrant of Australia, Bloomberg reports.

49 people were killed and dozens injured in attacks on two Christchurch mosques on Thursday - the deadliest of which occurred at the Masjid Al Noor mosque at approximately 1:45 p.m., where the murders of 41 of the 49 people were broadcast over Facebook live and quickly distributed across various platforms.

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In the immediate aftermath, researcher and journalist Nick Monroe quickly determined the shooter’s identity and provided a running Twitter thread as events unfolded - including three links to footage of the shooting.

His fast-moving thread was featured in at least one broadcast news report, and quickly became the ‘go-to’ for the latest information on the shootings.

Twitter, however, immediately locked Monroe’s account until he deleted a tweet with links to footage of the livestream - one of eight he has been made to take down.

 

Also deleted was a copy of the shooter’s 74-page manifesto posted to Scribd and included in Monroe’s thread under a DCMA copyright violation. In it, he appears to subscribe to a number of ideologies, writes Breitbart senior tech correspondent, Allum Bokhari. Ultimately, the shooter wanted to “Create conflict between the two ideologies within the United States on the ownership of firearms in order to further the social, cultural, political, and racial divide within the United States.”

The document is riddled with white nationalist talking points, and the shooter describes himself as a “fascist.” He also castigates Muslims as “the most despised group of invaders in the west.”

Yet elsewhere in the document, the shooter describes himself as a socialist, “depending on the definition.” The shooter also declares his support for “environmentalism,” “worker’s rights,” and “responsible markets.”

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Parts of the manifesto appear to be insincere trolling, aimed at sowing confusion about his motivations. At one point, the shooter blames his action on popular video game titles, saying “Spyro the Dragon 3 taught me ethno-nationalism” and that “Fortnite trained me to be a killer.”

Elsewhere in the document, the shooter identifies black conservative Candace Owens — obviously neither a white nationalist nor a supporter of violence — as the “person that has influenced me above all.” In a video posted online, the shooter also tells viewers to “subscribe to PewDiePie” — the pseudonym of Felix Kjellberg, a comedian and video game streamer who runs the most-subscribed channel on YouTube and whose content is majority non-political.

In both cases, the shooter attempts to link high-profile individuals — who have little in common with his stated ideology yet command large online followings and are frequently the target of unfair media hit pieces — to his attack. If it triggers a war of words between the media and their frequent targets, the result of this tactic would be more publicity for the shooter. -Breitbart

The manifesto can be found here, for now.

YouTube tweeted late Thursday evening that they are “working vigilantly to remove any violent footage” of the attack.

 

According to retired FBI supervisory special agent Steve Moore, a CNN analyst: “What I would tell the public is this: Do you want to help terrorists? Because if you do, sharing this video is exactly how you do it,” adding “Do not share the video or you are part of this”

In the meantime, internet sleuths are piecing together the shooter’s background:

via zerohedge

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  2. I find it interesting how the media goes wild when someone does to muslims what muslims have been doing the world for years. Going out of their way to censor what the people see and hear. If you had ever seen an ISIS beheading you might not be so sympathetic to muslims.

  3. It seem some people have finally come to the realization that ‘muslims’ are NOT in their country to ‘assimilate” , but to INVADE, breed like rabbits, and “take over”. Case and point right here in the U.S with TRAINING AREAS, “no go” sharia law areas where they have set aside parts of towns and have their own “police force”, “judges” and “INFIDELS” (as well as local police) are not “allowed” in “THEIR AREAS”. Expect more of these “events” as people have HAD ENOUGH, ands finally decide to take their towns BACK from these invaders because the deep state “government” refuses to do so.

  4. It was only Muslims. Good riddance to bad rubbish. That should happen in the States !! Muslims weren’t here to defend America, but they’re here now to help destroy it along with the Democrats.

  5. It’s unfortunate but polls suggest upwards of 85% of Muslims support the idea of the world being subjugated to Sharia under a Caliphate and the same number believe Jihad or terrorism is usually justifiable. Of course this is what the fundamental doctrines of the Koran advocate in many different verses or suras. The Koran is a hanbook of terrorism and a rambling diatribe against the infidel, whom it asserts should be converted, enslaved or exterminated. Particularly Jews and Christians.

    Sadly, the rank and file Muslims, the majority of which do not engage in militant violence, seem oblivious to the ramifications of their ideology and are as frequently victims of their fellow Muslims as non Muslims. Yet by support of the Mosque and culture they help facilitate the neverending war against all of civilization. This can easily be construed as guilt by association, which the Koran emphasis’s in reverse: all nonbelievers in the Koran are Infidels and therefore guilty and subject to genocide if they cannot be persuaded to convert or object to the Korans stated doctrines. The question is, is there moral equivalency between a preemptive effort to remove a viral, infectious culture that plans for the destruction of the host, and the ongoing attacks upon the hosts vital systems, ie., Constitution, education, police, military and civil society?

  6. Amazing how the left, wants everything done by a conservative, highlighted and underlined.
    However, when the left does something to make them look bad? It’s scrubbed.
    examples, over the years:
    Facebook refused to a allow videos of abortions. Yet allows cancer surgeries, and tumor procedures.
    Facebook, refused to allow the word pedophile, when anyone discussed, Michael Jackson. But fully supported discussion of Catholic Priests.
    Facebook, refused to acknowledge the evidence, that proves AIDS, was a homosexual disease. Even though 98 % of victims, were homosexual.
    The list goes on.

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