No Dorothy it’s not that simple

Stuff reports:

Wednesday’s attack appeared to be the first successfully streamed shooting since then, and the first real test for the Christchurch Call — an initiative set up by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at eliminating terrorist and violent extremist content online.
Eight technology companies — including Amazon — and 50 countries have so far signed the three-page, non-binding pledge.

As part of the Call, companies, governments, and civil society representatives were in the process of creating a new crisis response protocol to help prevent the sharing of extremist content in the wake of a terrorist attack. 
“The shared protocol is operationally ready and could be used immediately in the event of a terrorist attack like Christchurch, where an online response is required,” Ardern said at the United Nations General Assembly in September. 
On Thursday, she told reporters the protocol kicked in “straight away” after the Halle shooting. “Companies are talking to each other to try and stop the spread.”
But Stuff was easily able to find the video on instant messaging app Telegram, on messaging board 4chan, and on Mega.nz — a cloud storage site founded but no longer owned by controversial internet mogul Kim Dotcom.

Of course you can’t stop a video being on the Internet. It’s impossible. You can get it off some platforms, you can make it harder to upload and share etc. But the sensible test isn’t total eradication as you will never get that. Child porn is illegal in every country yet that is on the Internet.

This is not to argue against the Christchurch Call. It is a worthwhile initiative that has shown benefits. But perfect is the enemy of good. The Christchurch Call is not intended to and can’t stop a video being somewhere on the Internet.

Following the attack, Twitch confirmed about five people watched the livestream in real time, and thousands of others saw it before it was flagged and removed. 

So five people saw it in real time. That’s about as low as you can get in a network with over two billion on it.

Twitch in a statement said: “Once the video was removed, we shared the hash with an industry consortium to help prevent the proliferation of this content.”

That’s what you can sensibly do – share info with others to make it harder (not impossible) to share and upload.

Carter couldn’t say whether Amazon would be held accountable for its breach of the Call commitments — the first of which is to take transparent, specific measures seeking to prevent the upload of terrorist and violent extremist content. 
This isn’t the first time Amazon has violated the pledge with its livestreaming services. 

Articles shouldn’t state opinions as facts. I don’t agree Amazon has breached or violated the commitments.