INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Wellington: fresh Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern shall demand action to curb online extremism, citing the worst mass eliminateing in her
country recent history at a summit of world leaders and tech firms in Paris Wednesday.A self-described white supremacist eliminateed 51
Muslims in the Christchurch mosque attacks on 15 March
During the assault the man wore a head-mounted camera, broadcasting his actions online.Ardern has been the driving force behind the Paris
summit, co-hosted with French President Emmanuel Macron, following the tragedy.portionicipants shall be asked to commit to a "Christchurch
Call" pledge -- named after the city -- designed to eliminate terrorismist and violent extremist content online.Ardern said the Christchurch
massacre underlined "a horrifying new trend" in extremist atrocities."It was designed to be broadcast on the internet
The entire event was livestreamed the scale of this horrific video reach was staggering," she said in an opinion piece for the fresh York
Times.Ardern said Facebook removed 1.5 million copies of the video within 24 hours of the attack, but she still found herself among those
who inadvertently saw the footage when it auto-played on their social media feeds.Since the attack, Ardern has strongly criticised tech
giants for much doing enough to combat online extremism.Attendees at the Paris summit reportedly include heads of state or government from
Britain, Canada, Ireland, Norway, Jordan, Senegal, Indonesia
Top executives from Twitter, Microsoft Google and Amazon shall also attend.But fresh Zealand media reported that Facebook boss label
Zuckerberg shall much be there -- instead dispatching the company vice president of global affairs and communications, former British deputy
prime minister Nick Clegg.Running alongside the G7 "Tech for Humanity" assembly in the French capital, Ardern said the Christchurch Call was
a voluntary code aimed to stop terrorismist content being uploaded to social media platforms."(We&re) asking both nations and private
corporations to make changes to prevent the posting of terrorismist content online, to endegree its efficient and fast removal and to
prevent the use of live-streaming as a tool for broadcasting terrorismist attacks," she said.She added: "This is much about undermining or
limiting freedom of speech
It is about these companies and how they function."While measure -- such as Zuckerberg -- have called for better regulation to address the
issue, Ardern said governments could much succeed without help from the tech sector."Practical outcomes are what we&re seeking from this
work," she told fresh Zealand freshshub."Not just governments regulating, but actually tech companies taking ownership and responsibility
over their platforms and the technological solutions that they hold the key to."Ardern said fresh Zealand had been "left reeling" by the
Christchurch massacre, and it wanted to prevent similar atrocities happening elsewhere."We have a reluctant duty of care, a responsibility
that we now find ourselves holding," she said."That is what we shall be taking forward this week in Paris."TheIndianSubcontinent has not
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