The Australian citizen live-streamed his attack on Facebook, and the footage quickly spread across the internet. The block on 4chan was lifted after a few hours, Nine News said, but the other websites remained inaccessible.īrenton Tarrant, 28, was accused of murdering 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch last Friday, in what authorities described as a white supremacist terrorist attack. Telstra released a statement in which Networks and IT Executive Nikos Katinakis explained, "We understand this may inconvenience some legitimate users of these sites, but these are extreme circumstances, and we feel this is the right thing to do." The sites were also unavailable on Optus and Vodafone networks, although the companies had not confirmed the names of the sites they had blocked. Hewitt describes ItemFix as "something completely different, completely fresh, and something we feel energized about tackling." He added, "Sometimes it's just the right time to chart a new path.Several major Australian telecom companies blocked access to many websites accused of hosting and contributing to the dissemination of footage of the Christchurch, New Zealand, terrorist attack on two mosques last Friday.Īccording to Nine News, Telstra-the country's largest telecommunications company-blocked access to 4chan, 8chan, Voat, the blog Zerohedge and hosting platform LiveLeak on Tuesday. Along with, it was part of an early generation of "shock" sites, the sort of places you'd go to see if you could stomach the human carnage of a car accident. LiveLeak was co-founded by the folks behind Ogrish, which also centered on displaying horrific imagery. But it could just be that the initial concept for the site has run its course. Without more detail, it's tough to pinpoint the exact reasoning for LiveLeak's demise. "The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people."
"We felt LiveLeak had achieved all that it could and it was time for us to try something new and exciting," co-founder Hayden Hewitt wrote in a blog post. As The Verge reports, LiveLeak has been replaced with the far less racy ItemFix, a video sharing site that explicitly bans uploading gory or violent content. In 2019, New Zealand blocked access to the site for hosting video of the Christchurch mass shooting. It featured everything from local crimes to terrorist propaganda, like the ISIS beheading of journalist James Foley. The site could be best described as YouTube's evil (and less popular) twin, the place where you'd go to find uncensored footage of humanity at its worst. LiveLeak, once the purveyor of horribly violent videos, was unceremoniously shut down this Wednesday.
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