What happened to LiveLeak?

What happened to LiveLeak?

LiveLeak was a British video sharing website, headquartered in London. The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the Ogrish.com shock site which closed on the same day. LiveLeak aimed to freely host real footage of politics, war, and many other world events and to encourage and foster a culture of citizen journalism.

When did LiveLeak start censoring comments?

They started maybe half a year to a year ago to censor comments and videos. US sites in general employ more censorship nowadays. You can see it on Youtube and Reddit aswell. Maybe Liveleak got pressure from advertisers, or some wealthy individual with an agenda bought into the site.

What is liveliveleak doing about violent content?

LiveLeak already held to being strictly non-biased in its approach to violent content, enshrining freedom of speech within the site rules, regardless of how certain content can offend. Fitna was taken down for 48 hours as personal threats against Hewitt, the only public representative of the site, peaked.

Who is LiveLeak’s Hayden Hewitt?

When Panorama queried the “extremely violent videos” that were posted to LiveLeak’s website, co-founder Hayden Hewitt refused to take them all down, stating: “Look, all this is happening, this is real life, and this is going on, and we’re going to have to show it.”

What is a Kabarett Revue?

Kabarett (German pronunciation: [kabaˈʁɛt]; from French cabaret = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the cabaret artistique. It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire.

Where was the first Kabarett in Germany?

In the GDR, the first state kabarett stage was opened in 1953, Berlin ‘s Die Distel. It was censored and had to be very careful in criticizing the state (1954: Die Pfeffermühle in Leipzig ). In the 1960s, West German kabarett was centred on Düsseldorf, Munich, and Berlin.