Nah, I know the psycho wasn't on Kiwifarms, I just mean they could follow the trail from one IP address to another. They might be asking 30 people as they follow the trail but eventually they would come to the end of it. The end of that trail could be some random who saved the video from FB or downloaded it from another video sharing site, alternatively it could be from someone directly involved with the gun man.
I'm okay with making the police's job harder. I don't think a justice system can exist in which the innocent are afraid of it, so there has to be a point in which someone who has broken no laws and committed no crimes has a reasonable expectation of privacy from the police and the government. If there is evidence of illegal activity being performed, then they should get a warrant and pursue the matter as far as international treaties will allow - but they don't appear to have a warrant, and NZ has been nationally ip banning websites like ZeroHedge and Dissenter - sites that are in no way involved in the shootings and which have been banned due to not following NZ's rule of censorship. This isn't about finding criminals. This is about an extensive, targeted, coordinated effort to censor the entire internet for the whole of New Zealand. It's about criminalizing knowledge. It's fucking abhorrent.
This is gross and disgusting and do not agree with it at all. The law of the country is the law of the country though. They'd have to look at the time line to work out when they considered the video "objectionable" and when this guy distributed the video. They'd also have to proof that he knew about the law and that they video was tagged as objectionable.
It seems they want to make an example of him as a way to stem further sharing of the video. If I were his lawyer, I'd want to delay the proceedings for at least a week or so, when the hysteria has died down and he's more likely to get a more reasonable, less emotional court hearing - but apparently, he is due in court today (Monday, NZ time, is already today).