New Zealand police investigating online leads as a follow-up to Friday’s Christchurch terror attacks have been met with some resistance.

The founder of an American site asked to preserve the emails and IP addresses of users posting about the attacks reportedly labeled the request a ‘joke’, calling New Zealand an ‘irrelevant island nation’.  

Investigators are continuing to examine Brenton Tarrant’s online presence, in the hopes of gathering evidence as well as preventing future attacks.