Thomas Manch13:37, May 10 2021
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Jacinda Ardern urged tech leaders to take more responsibility during her speech at the Christchurch Call summit in Paris. (Video first published on May 16, 2019)
Two years after a terrorist broadcast the killing of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch across the internet, a group of countries and tech companies have managed to curb the spread of similar video livestreams twice. On Monday, officials in New Zealand, France, and the US held a briefing on the effort and suggested that further countries and companies would sign on to the call in the coming days and weeks, but did not provide specific details. A Christchurch Call leaders summit will be held on Saturday.
United States joins Christchurch Call to fight violent, extreme online content
(Photo / NZ Herald) Sat, 8 May 2021, 11:18AM
The United States has joined the Christchurch Call to Action to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.
In a statement released this morning US Department of State spokesman Ned Price confirmed America was now endorsing the Christchurch Call, after holding off for several years.
The Call to Action will be voluntary framework whereby governments and tech companies pledge to work towards stopping violent content from being posted online, and preventing such content from spreading so rapidly.
It came after the 2019 terror attack on two mosques in Christchurch where 51 people were murdered and 40 wounded.
US to join New Zealand plan to fight online extremism
The Biden administration has said it will join a global campaign to make the internet a safer place. It comes two years after the previous Trump administration refused to sign up citing first amendment rules.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has led the calls for tech companies to get tough on online hate speech and extremism.
The US is to join a New Zealand-backed campaign to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House said on Friday, two years after a gunman livestreamed the murder of 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch.
A National Policy Blueprint To End White Supremacist Violence
April 21, 2021, 12:01 am Getty/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Stanton Sharpe
A member of the Proud Boys guards the front stage during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on September 26, 2020.
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White supremacist violence is not new, but in recent years, it has become a primary national security threat in the United States.
1 Notions of racial superiority, hostility toward immigrants and minorities, and the myth of an embattled white majority defending its power have increasingly infiltrated mainstream American political and cultural discourse.
2 In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its annual threat assessment, identifying racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, particularly white supremacist extremists, as “the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland.”