[ad_1] Reviews for the blocks will take place every six months. Officials maintain that this won’t lead to arbitrary censorship. There’s a “high threshold” and “parliamentary oversight” before blocking takes place, Inman said. Communications minister Paul Fletcher likewise said blocks didn’t represent a “universal solution.” This is specifically meant to combat material that’s illegal in […]
Category: mass shooting
Walmart pulls displays for violent media after El Paso shooting
[ad_1] Walmart confirmed the move in a statement to Vice, saying it was “out of respect” for the victims of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, and that this “does not reflect” a change in the actual game catalog. You can still buy Call of Duty, you just won’t see it advertised. At the same […]
PewDiePie asks for end to ‘subscribe’ meme after synagogue shooting
[ad_1] He said he held off saying more in March since he “didn’t want to give the terrorist more attention” or to “make it about me.” Even so, he didn’t want “hateful acts” to overwhelm the “amazing things” done in his name. The internet celebrity also acknowledged that two diss songs attacking T-Series, his rival […]
Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later
[ad_1] One variation had been around since the time of the attack. All of the videos Feinberg found were sitting on Arabic-language pages. Facebook has removed one of the videos as of this writing, and reiterated its plans to improve its filtering technology. It’s using audio recognition to spot clips that might otherwise evade filters, […]
Australian bill could imprison social network execs over violent content
[ad_1] Platform hosts would also have to notify Australia if they discover their service is streaming violent content taking place within the country. If they don’t, they could face fines up to $168,000 AUD for an individual and $840,000 AUD for a company. The new legislation would ultimately be similar to those requiring companies to […]
Facebook says only 4,000 users viewed original NZ shooter livestream
[ad_1] In the wake of the livestream, a version of the video surfaced on YouTube every second over the weekend. It was also shared to Reddit forums such as “r/watchpeopledie” and “r/Gore,” both of which have since been banned. And Facebook itself scrambled to pull down 1.5 million videos of the incident in the first […]
A New Zealand shooting video hit YouTube every second this weekend
[ad_1] The speed at which the videos were uploaded forced YouTube to take unprecedented measures. Under standard protocol, YouTube’s software flags troublesome content, which human moderators then review. But because the system was inundated, it let the AI software both flag and remove content it suspected to be problematic. As Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product […]
Facebook pulled over 1.5 million videos of New Zealand shooting
[ad_1] The shooter wore a head-mounted camera to livestream the attack, and in his social posts and manifesto suggested that he wanted to stoke tensions that supported his anti-immigrant agenda. There’s been a concern that spreading the video is giving the attacker the exposure he wanted in addition to traumatizing viewers. While the removal rate […]
Facebook and YouTube rush to remove New Zealand shooting footage
[ad_1] Facebook has confirmed that local law enforcement “alerted it to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced.” It said it had removed the unverified video along with the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. “We’re also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re […]