'He was basically just being some sort of right-wing weirdo so at that stage I passed on information about that video and the previous one, now that I'd worked out what it was, to Internal Affairs.' He made some derogatory comments about Muslims. 'And I thought that wasn't particularly good.

When he clicked on it the man discovered the American welder talking about the Christchurch gunman and it soon became obvious the 'banned book' he'd earlier referred to was the shooter's manifesto.

it looked pretty darn boring and went for over two hours so I clicked off and went somewhere else.'Ī few days later the Wellingtonian returned to the welding website, which had a new video titled 'They're deleting my channel'. 'There was a video entitled 'They banned this book so I'm going to read it to you', so I clicked on the link and he started talking about something. The man, who RNZ has chosen not to name, was watching an American welder on YouTube demonstrating various repair techniques, when he went off topic. Now, two months on, the number of such alerts has decreased to just a couple a week, but the web safety group Netsafe says such material is still available on almost 50 websites worldwide.Īnd, as a Wellington man discovered, the manifesto and references to it can turn up in the most unexpected places. A Wellington man found a YouTube where an American welder was reading out the Christchurch mosque attack gunman's manifesto.

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