It's unbelievable...if Trump used an Islamist terror attack during his election campaign it would be wall to wall coverage on our TV's
(And this thread would be in triple figures already)
I hadn't seen any footage of the attack until just now...on a giant screen at one of Erdogan's rallies.
Didn't you bother with the second link, chill?
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I did, but it bore no relevance whatsoever to the usual newspaper hyperbole of the first, whereby they always tell readers what the maximum sentence is for whatever crime they’re reporting on.
Those involved almost never get anything near such sentences.
Presumably he’s in trouble becaus they think he’s sympathetic.
Whereas Erdogan I’d imagine I’d giung it to whip up his supporters who presumably strongly disapprove.
Like chill, I don’t think the two are comparable. One is joe bloggs in trouble with a scandalised democracy unused to such atrocities, much less the sharing of them on social media, and the other is an autocratic ruler who like all autocratic rulers does as he pleases. All the NZ authorities can reasonably do is complain.
It's the age of social media these days.. Just because they can and no one says no people think it's ok.. Maybe he should get some time just to make an example of.
The main issue was not so much the sharing of the footage but the inciting violence and hate messages that accompanied it. It was all over the place at the time, you could watch it literally everywhere, thousands must have shared it, but most were appalled by it and their messages reflected that. They have not been arrested, it's this person's use of the footage that caused his arrest.