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While Zvulony said he believes not all murderous content should be taken off the Internet — for example, he would not remove depictions of governments massacring their own citizens, as happened recently in Syria — the video attributed to Magnotta, he argued, crosses a line.

“We don’t want to sanitize reality. We want to have access to the truth. Except at some point, that unsanitized truth becomes really harmful to society,” he said.

“It goes against the ethos of the Internet, but we do have to put some responsibility on the people who run these sites.

Best Gore’s operator Mark Marek has publicly defended his right to host the video saying that he is doing a public service by showing people the unsanitized truth.

“Best Gore exists to expose the evil doers for who they really are, though I’m not surprised they are offended with me showing their true faces to the world and want the site shut down or me charged with whatever they can come up with,” he said in an email to Postmedia.

Police have accused Marek of being “uncooperative” in refusing to take down the video, although they acknowledge that many other websites have copied the video from Best Gore and are now hosting it themselves. It is not known at this time if the other websites will also face charges.

The video allegedly shows the suspect Magnotta, 29, murdering and dismembering Lin, 33, and then performing sexual acts with the deceased’s body.

Two of Lin’s body parts, a hand and a foot, were sent to political offices in Ottawa through Canada Post.

Magnotta was arrested in Berlin Monday and has indicated he will not fight extradition back to Canada, German authorities said Tuesday.

German police spokesman Stefan Redlich said Magnotta had a brief court appearance with a judge in a police station Tuesday.

“He told the judge he would not object to his return to Canada,” Redlich said.

But police said he refused to discuss any of the details of his case with the judge.

With files from Postmedia News