. New Zealand’s worst-ever mass shooting leaves 49 dead. Attack livestreamed online using extreme sports app. Video still available on social media hours later. Platforms including 4chan, 8chan, and LiveLeak hosted footage of the New Zealand mosque attacks that killed 50 people last week. In response, a number of internet service providers in Australia.
LiveLeak, once the purveyor of horribly violent videos, was unceremoniously shut down this Wednesday. The site could be best described as YouTube's evil (and less popular) twin, the place where you'd go to find uncensored footage of humanity at its worst. It featured everything from local crimes to terrorist propaganda, like the ISIS beheading of journalist James Foley. In 2019, New Zealand blocked access to the site for hosting video of the Christchurch mass shooting. As The Verge reports, LiveLeak has been replaced with the far less racy ItemFix, a video sharing site that explicitly bans uploading gory or violent content.
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'We felt LiveLeak had achieved all that it could and it was time for us to try something new and exciting,' co-founder Hayden Hewitt wrote in a blog post. 'The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people.'
Nz Shooting Stream Video Liveleak. Following the Friday mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, multiple internet service providers (ISP) in the country have blocked access to websites that distribute gruesome content from the incident. The attacker live-streamed on his Facebook account his actions that got 49 people killed.
Share this video: WARNING: Graphic content. Syria checkpoint shooting. Chrissy Teigen looks stunning as she flaunts new hair cut. Facebook Admits Mosque Shooting Video Was Viewed At Least 4,000 Times. Is shaded by clouds in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday. Hewitt told NPR that Liveleak will not carry the video.
Without more detail, it's tough to pinpoint the exact reasoning for LiveLeak's demise. But it could just be that the initial concept for the site has run its course. LiveLeak was co-founded by the folks behind Ogrish, which also centered on displaying horrific imagery. Along with Rotten.com, it was part of an early generation of 'shock' sites, the sort of places you'd go to see if you could stomach the human carnage of a car accident.
Hewitt describes ItemFix as 'something completely different, completely fresh, and something we feel energized about tackling.' He added, 'Sometimes it's just the right time to chart a new path.'
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