LiveLeak

Many featured videos on LiveLeak often involve graphic content of fatal accidents, inappropriate behavior or shootings. Although by 2016, LiveLeak had removed its controversial content off the site, and the site had frequently sparked up to controversy up until August 2008, which was mostly due to its graphic and political content. It then came to be prominence in 2007 which followed the unauthorised filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein, and it was referred to as White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, The Secret Violence Society for Criminal Affairs, and then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair.[9][10]

On 30 July 2007, the BBC program Panorama was broadcasting a show about how young people had gotten physically assaulted, shot at and knocked unconscious.[11] When Panorama did querie the "extremely violent videos" that were posted to LiveLeak's website, co-founder Hayden Hewitt refused to take them all down, which stated, "Look, all this is happening, this is real life, and this is going on, and we're going to have to show it. We need to get rid of violence."[12] LiveLeak had stated that there were relatively very few such videos on the actual site and that the uploaders were founded to have participated in the worst, most violent attack or they might have filmed it themselves, and it would also aid the police with no prosecutions.[13]

LiveLeak was live again in the spotlight in March 2008, when it was hosting the anti-Quran film Fitna that was made by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. LiveLeak held to being strictly non-biased in all of its approach to other members and their violent content, that was believing in the freedom of speech which was within the site rules, regardless of how certain content can offend them regardlessly.[14] Fitna was taken down after threats were reported against the LiveLeak staff, but was back online after March 30, 2008 after LiveLeak had reportedly improved security numbers. The video was removed two days later on April 1, 2008 at the time it was removed by the user which cited that it could have been taken down due to copyright wrangles and that a new version would need to be uploaded "soon."

Another video of US journalist James Foley was posted by the Islamist fighters on YouTube that day before, when it was reported by US News & World Report, "YouTube deleted all of LiveLeak's content and demand for the LiveLeak 1.8 version soared."[15] In response to the video that leadership of the website had declared that they would not try to host any "further beheadings that were carried out by ISIS."[16][4] The website will be continuing to host by the original video that would depict the aftermath of Foley's execution from LiveLeak.

On March 30, 2019, Australian telecom Telstra was denying millions of Australians to have access to the websites 4chan, BigPond, 8chan, Zero Hedge, and LiveLeak as their reaction to the Christchurch mosque shootings that were reported.[17]

At the beginning of June 2020, LiveLeak was temporarily disabling the ability to try and log into the website, and they had also suggested only videos from other sources, like YouTube or Dailymotion. As of 2020-Jun-14, it can be possible to log into the website and view LiveLeak their hosted videos again. Those who do not want to log in to LiveLeak will only see suggested videos that are hosted by YouTube, Dailymotion and vk.com.

"YourSay" is a section of the website where users can upload their own videos, similar to a vlog. Unlike YouTube and Dailymotion, the vlogs on LiveLeak are more political and have been known for debate.

LiveLeak currently has multiple categories that includes Syria and Ukraine, in which all graphic content to regard various conflicts such as violence can be viewed directly from the site.[18]

On March 24, 2014, LiveLeak and Ruptly had announced a content partnership that is called The National Society of Disorders.[19]

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