1. Mar 16, 2019 New Zealand Mobile Carriers Block 8chan, 4chan, and LiveLeak. Following the Friday mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, multiple internet service providers (ISP) in the country have blocked.
2. The block itself came as a complete surprise, said Hewitt, who noted his site is still shut out of New Zealand and Australia. Optus and Vodaphone are also blocking LiveLeak, he said.
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Horrific videos like the one posted by the Christchurch mosque shooting suspect Brenton Tarrant are geared to appeal to the morbidly curious, and appeal it did. Dozens of copies of what appears to.

LiveLeak, once the purveyor of horribly violent videos, was unceremoniously shut down this Wednesday. 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. It featured everything from local crimes to terrorist propaganda, like the ISIS beheading of journalist James Foley. In 2019, New Zealand blocked access to the site for hosting video of the Christchurch mass shooting. 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.

'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. 'The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people.'

Without more detail, it's tough to pinpoint the exact reasoning for LiveLeak's demise. But it could just be that the initial concept for the site has run its course. LiveLeak was co-founded by the folks behind Ogrish, which also centered on displaying horrific imagery. Along with Rotten.com, 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.

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.'

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A Facebook vice president said fewer than 200 people saw the Christchurch massacre while it was being streamed live on the site. But the video was viewed about 4,000 times before Facebook removed it, he added. Countless more views occurred in the hours afterward, as copies of the video proliferated more quickly than online platforms like Facebook could remove them.

Social media and video sharing sites have faced criticism for being slow to respond to the first-ever live-streamed mass shooting, recorded from the first-person perspective of the shooter, the camera seemingly mounted atop the killer's helmet. But executives from the sites say they have been doing what they can to combat the spread of the video, one possibly designed for an age of virality.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she has been in contact with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to ensure the video is entirely scrubbed from the platform.

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And some websites accused of hosting footage of the attacks, such as 4chan and LiveLeak, have found themselves blocked by the country's major Internet providers. 'We've started temporarily blocking a number of sites that are hosting footage of Friday's terrorist attack in Christchurch,' Telstra said on Twitter. '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.'