YouTube's struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting

Private companies can choose not to spend their resources distributing this stuff or helping people find it.

It's easy to find the video and manifesto.

The shooter very obviously is trying to manipulate the media with a shock campaign. He blatantly admitted to this.

Websites are choosing to self censor, they don't want to encourage this type of behavior.

There have been a bunch of articles about the manifesto. It’s not a detailed explanation. It is not at all like the manifestos of old such as the unibomber’s. It seems to be full of lots of contradictions and lots of memes and lots of things designed to spread. Based on what people have said in comments elsewhere you could read it and if you were looking for a motivation you’d find what you wanted to find. A left wing person might find right wing motivations. A right wing person would find he has left wing motivations. Etc.

Didn't watch the video past the first 10 seconds which just showed a first-person-view view of a guy with a gun walking down a sidewalk, but the manifesto I skimmed maybe 5-10 pages and it was basically just a series of little essays / blogposts kind of deals about different topics (in the sense that he'd just use a new giant heading and switch topics after a page or two randomly), but they pretty much all were just standard copy-paste level arguments about how the white race is at risk of extinction due to birth rates and immigration, basically just different little pieces about standard white supremacist stuff, not particularly original.

He wrote about his personal experiences in France, seeing how many immigrants are there and how it shocked him, and he wrote about how he was motivated by seeing some white girl killed by a Muslim attacker on the news, and how he decided to take action personally.

Nothing particular new or interesting. And it's hard to understand how his reaction to things that troubled him was to just double down on violence. He was clearly bothered by certain acts of terrorism in the past, but somehow he justified his own.

Personally I understand why the video and manifesto are censored. I am very free speech but in this case I think we've seen enough studies about copycat terrorism and copycat suicide and copycat mass shootings to know that it's harmful to propagate a murderer's identity and message.

Seriously? No one can find out why?

What about all those journalists reporting about his motives, reciting his meme-infected nonsensical manifesto? How do these people know about his white supremacist views and his hate for Muslims?

Are they all making that up as part of a big cover-up?