Original article on 'Wall Street Journal': After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets

For those of you who, like me, can't read that article, here's a different article from newshub.co.nz that talks about it: Christchurch terror attack: 8chan founder expresses regret

• New Zealand ISPs are blocking sites that do not remove Christchurch shooting video

• New Zealand Mobile Carriers Block 8chan, 4chan, and LiveLeak

• And, in Australia: Telco giants block websites sharing footage of Christchurch attacks

• The block on some sites seems to have been lifted in Australia: Telcos block access to 4chan, other sites

An undoubtedly horrific subreddit that always seemed to comply with reddit TOS and the admins has been banned, probably related to the NZ shooting video that was in the subreddit yesterday until it was taken down by admins. Looks like they're getting ahead of MSM discovering that this shit exists on the site?

Will add any updates here.

r/gore is gone as well.

From @nacho:

It's not ahead of controversy, it's in response to the Reuters article calling out /r/watchpeopledie.

Members of a group called “watchpeopledie” on internet discussion board Reddit, for example, discussed how to share the footage even as the website took steps to limit its spread.

Reddit - which has over 20 investors, including Conde Nast owner Advance Publications - said it was actively monitoring the situation in New Zealand.

“Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy,” it said.