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LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by da_big_ghey »

concordDance wrote: post #389
causality0 wrote: post #69

I do hope you also understand our reasons I mean, I'd like to try, except he didn't actually give us any of those reasons. Rest in peace, LiveLeak. You were a beacon of reality that shone through the propaganda, the bullshit, and the sugar-coating. Your demise means that people who want to see something like a shooting that's been removed from mainstream platforms will be forced to visit darker corners of the interne…

> Now if someone asks me "Hey where can I go see that thing that was taken off of Youtube" I don't have a ready answer that isn't an alt-right cesspool. Does this mean that only the alt-right have access to uncensored information?

they are having some information remove from other places but are also having many misleading thing circulating, example being "election steal" in year past. like with regular media, alt-right and alt-left are having some thing you cannot find outside of them so reading a little is good (not fun but still good).

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by severino »

c-c-c-c-c wrote: post #236
syamilmj wrote: post #118

Probably a minority here - but I could not stomach the horrible comments on LiveLeak, especially because it almost seemed like they were all written by a bunch of really young audience.

Comments were removed a few years ago iirc. Atleast made totally unusable.

I think they made it only visible for registered users, so it looked like there were no comments if you were a guest.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by varispeed »

I think this is because EU terreg regulation that was introduced without a vote. Basically services that have EU users (regardless if they use VPN etc) have 1hr SLA to remove any content requested to be deleted. Have a look https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/04/the-eus-terrorist-content...

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by varispeed »

causality0 wrote: post #69

I do hope you also understand our reasons I mean, I'd like to try, except he didn't actually give us any of those reasons. Rest in peace, LiveLeak. You were a beacon of reality that shone through the propaganda, the bullshit, and the sugar-coating. Your demise means that people who want to see something like a shooting that's been removed from mainstream platforms will be forced to visit darker corners of the interne…

I think it's a first victim of the new EU regulation. Probably many more websites like this will fold, because it will not be possible to run them any more. Have a read: https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/04/the-eus-terrorist-content...

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by varispeed »

Mandatum wrote: post #13

The fact they were HQ'd in London always confused me. Yes the EU gives you some protections, but taking a pseudonymous TPB-style approach is probably easier for everyone (support, operations, management, marketing) than the legal grey area LiveLeak operated in. Also the end of the note from Hayden sticks with me, I know the type of videos or users he's referring to and I don't think the majority of readers will reali…

The new EU regulation makes hosting of such sites no longer possible. Probably that's why they closed. I think that many more sites like this will be closed.

Take a look: https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/04/the-eus-terrorist-content...

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by PicassoCTs »

Barrin92 wrote: post #42
nickysielicki wrote: post #17

The world is a scary and violent place. Without Liveleak, you might never feel it. Until you see the actual violence and gore, it doesn't mean anything, it's just empty words. I didn't care at all about wars in the middle east until I saw the reality on Liveleak. Seeing dead children and people with their legs blown off made all the commentary on CNN and Fox seem so understated. A lot is said about desensitization as…

Liveleak doesn't portray the reality of war because it shows you some beheading. Voyeurism and gore are not the same as genuine insight into what scary and violent places are actually like. It's worth reading Baudrillard's ' The Gulf War Did Not Take Place ' on how media representation, and stylized, selective footage is used to distort. You didn't get to know the 'reality' of war, but the hyper-reality of it. If you…

Then CNN and BBC defiantly show the reality of war aka, guys with machine guns shooting at the sky so the reporter can pretend he is near the frontlines.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by newsclues »

pessimizer wrote: post #394
dmos62 wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now if someone asks me "Hey where can I go see that thing that was taken off of Youtube" I don't have a ready answer that isn't an alt-right cesspool. You complain about some sites being alt-right cesspools, as if being a cesspool is not bad on its own.

Those places are cesspools because white supremacists are there. A cesspool isn't a cesspool until you fill it with shit.

White supremacists are the only shitty people.

Re: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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Post by nickthemagicman »

The fascinating thing about LL was how in touch with death it put people.

But before modern medicine and modern industrialism seeing death was a CONSTANT part of life for most of human history.

Wars, disease, childbirth, work accidents etc. The world was a much more dangerous and deadly place.

A canal was built in my city and thousands of people died while building it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Basin_Canal

Now things are so safe and we rarely see death outside of the confines of a funeral home or something.

Death has become strange and foreign event to people in the west, which is good from a quality of life perspective.

But also bad because we're so out of touch with the natural world that I think it warps human beings psyche a little bit.

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