Charge against Facebook and YouTube regarding Christchurch

On March 15, a group representing France's Muslims
filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Facebook and YouTube in a protest against
the spread of Christchurch in New Zealand.
On 15 March, two mosques fired in New Zealand, killing
50 people and at the same time live streamed for 17 minutes on Facebook, and
without any delay the video was shared over to social media sites across the
Internet and YouTube.
The French Council of Muslim Fight (CFCM) submitted
legal papers against two technology companies in response to the spread of the
video contained in the terrorist attack of Christchurch city on the basis of
the spread in the social platform. They say, companies promote terrorism and
promote such things that harm human dignity. There was no immediate comment
from the companies.
CFCM president Ahmed Vargas told CNN that taking the
legal process against Facebook for not restricting the rapid spread of video.
CfcM Islam phobia Observatory Unit President Abdullah
Zakri said the agency has submitted formal legal complaint against Facebook and
YouTube in France.
According to the Facebook authorities, they have
removed hundreds of copies of the video from their platform. However, video
footage is available for several hours after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram WhatsApp
and Utu attacks.
A spokesman for the Federation of Islamic Association
of New Zealand (FINZ) Federation welcomes the French party's activities. He
said his organization had planned to contact Facebook to register their
complaints, but they were still busy after the attack, hence they could not
file a case.
A statement published on the Facebook website said
that nearly 15 million shared videos were removed from the video of the attack
within the first 24 hours. Nearly 12 blocked video uploads, which means that
Facebook users cannot see it. However, Facebook authorities failed to say the
amount of viewers for the rest of the 3 million views of the content.
A Facebook spokesman told the BBC, "Facebook is
not a place of bad activity and hate speech by a terrorist. We have compassion
for the families of the victims and the families affected by this tragedy.
Immediately after the attack, we quickly took the initiative to remove the
video from our platform. Besides, we are cooperating with the authorities. "
One has been charged with a count of murder in
Christchurch shooting and will appear in court on April 5.