The leaders of several countries have signed up to the so-called “Christchurch Call” after a meeting in Paris between French President Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Arden.
The “Christchurch Call” comes two months after the Christchurch terrorist attack on two Mosques in the New Zealand city which killed 51 people and urges governments and tech companies to stop terrorism and extremist content online.
The massacre of Muslims at their house of worship was streamed by killer Brenton Tarrant on Facebook live and viewed by thousands of people before going viral on other platforms.
Leaders of nine countries in all signed up to the message including Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as well as the leaders of France, New Zealand, Jordan, Canada, Indonesia, Norway and the UK.
The Trump administration refrained from signing the pledge as free speech is still highly valued in the US and explicitly enshrined in the American constitution while there are fears that the Christchurch tragedy will simply be used to censor anti-establishment speech.
Tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube did sign up the pledge however, all of these corporations have recently been accused of censoring non-violent conservatives.
Facebook has also been confronted with accusations that while, Christian, conservative and pro-Trump pages and personalities are being censored Muslim hate preachers such as Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi are left to peddle their ideology without interference on the social media platorm.
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