How liveleak.com died?

What happened to it? Why they banned all NSFW videos? Why people tolerate such censorship and political correctness?

It was purchased by RussiaToday.

LL had a lot of videos with muslims doing muslim things, and was considered non-PC, because Islam is a religion of peace. Therefore it got hijacked and censored.

The internet has transitioned from its old ``wild west'' model to the more modern and PC version we know today. Things will never go back to the way they once were.

Why? Advertising.

Advertisers won't touch gore or other shocking content with a ten foot pole. If you want ads, you have to clean up your content.

That's exactly what 4chan is doing right now by splitting it into 4chan and 4channel.

If we can ever come up with a different monetization model for the internet, then maybe edgy content will surface once again. But until that happens, it's going to be clean stuff from now on.

Censorship. Why I believe in it and why you do too.

I believe in censorship. I really do! I think it’s a hugely important tool available to us all. You believe in censorship too. No, you do…honestly. You might think you don’t but I can assure you that you not only believe in it you actively practice it almost all the time. Don’t bother to disagree, I’m definitely right.It could be you’re sat there shaking your head fooling yourself that you’re completely anti-censorship then how do you feel about child porn? Do you think that should be available? “That’s different” you might say “that’s illegal!”. Well, yes. Illegal and repugnant it most certainly is but it’s still censorship.

If that’s a bit extreme then how about this, would you allow your child (or A child) look at hard core pornography? Censorship. “But that’s obviously not the right thing to do!” you might respond and I would completely agree. Hence we censor it. We, as people, are constantly practicing censorship be it in the form of censoring others or, even more often, self censorship. It doesn’t even have to be anything as dramatic as the above examples. Did you ever tell your meaningful other they looked great in any given clothing item even when you thought they maybe didn’t? If not…how’s single life treating you?

Censorship is nothing more than a part of our lives and most times it’s just the way the world works. Although I avoid talking about LiveLeak too much on here I believe it’s valid to do so now. On LiveLeak we censor certain things. We don’t allow “flaming” because all you end up with is flame wars in comments. We don’t allow racial slurs because, again, that’s all you’ll end up with while you hemorrhage advertising and watch you site either swamped with porn ads or go down the toilet.

The important thing for me is what’s not censored and where. If someone has private property be it a website or a house then whatever rules or censorship they put in place is their business. But if they choose not to censor anything which isn’t illegal (the obvious things like child porn and the like, not the new bad things such as upsetting someone) then that should be their right too, and this is where my believing in censorship hits a brick wall very hard because these rights are slowly being taken away from the individual and handed over to ‘authority’ to decide.

It’s my belief that whilst we might censor language on LiveLeak we should never, ever censor opinions or beliefs no matter how ignorant, no matter how outlandish. A person’s beliefs and opinions are their own and they have every right to share them just as others have every right to refute or ignore them. This is why we’ll never censor opinion. That being said if I was a member on another site that I enjoyed but they banned mention of the word “gusset” I wouldn’t complain, I’d just weigh up whether the level of censorship was acceptable to me and if it wasn’t I’d leave.

If the government decided the word gusset was banned it would be a different story. The whole element of choice has now been taken away and this is something we’re seeing more and more often. Not the word gusset (yet) but people not being allowed to have an opinion in case it ‘offends’ the sensibilities of others. That, however, is for another blog entirely regarding personal accountability.

Censorship is important, we all practice it, we all believe in it. But we need to protect and cherish our ability to choose the level of censorship we operate within and not have it imposed on us.

>>1
Given it has 90% non-advertising friendly content and lots of controversial stuff, its a miracle the site survived 2018

Goreshit is cringe and doesn't sell anymore

>>6
It was always a niche site for publishing uncensored content. Nobody needs yet another family friendly disneyland.

>>6
You can say the same about this place, except make that 99%, and we are doing fine.

>>9
ok but a text board has basically 0 hosting costs, whereas a video streaming site has huge bandwidth and server requirements

>>9
Sites with sub 10 concurrent users don't count.

>>10
If it needs huge bandwidth, then it has a lot of users, therefore you can monetize that. Even if say Coca Cola doesn't want to associate its brand with non family friendly content, there are a lot of less picky brands or the ones that produce M-rated content themselves. If your site hosts real battlefield footage, then you can as well advertise there a WWII game or something.

>>12
Also, Youtube has ad censorship too, so you can't advertise mature content on Youtube. Therefore advertisers need uncensored sites too.

>>13

advertisers need uncensored sites too

They need porno sites or they need youtube. That's all there is to it, any advertiser with "mature content" is better served advertising on porn sites than whatever liveleak is. Liveleak needed to become a porno site to attract advertisers, now they are failed.

>>13

Youtube has ad censorship too

Only against scams and porn. Oh wow great advertising strategy, expose your traffic to the porn malware and frauds... Yes but no thanks...

>>15
The censor political ads.

>>16
Wow great advertising strategy, show your political ads next to gore videos and porn/fraud ads... Um, just no..?

>>16
Only if it's actual snake-oil frauds like prepping garbage or commemorative coins, you can't, honestly, call that kind of credit card fraud "political".

>>18
You can't advertise Stromfront like site at Youtube. I'm sure they will also ban VHEMT. Therefore censorship.

>>19
"Stormfront like sites" are funded through donations, how are they going to afford to keep liveleak afloat? If liveleak wants nigger haters' money, why use stormfront as a proxy when they could get direct donations since most of their content is implicitly anti-nigger? There is no untapped pool of racist advertisers one can use to keep a video site alive.

If your video site's URL is not youtube.com it is porn or or failure, if you try to appeal to hate you will only find Double Failure. Just ask Vid.me, Stream.me, BitchUte, Gab Video, these are all getting banned from all services one by one and forced to act like common trolls/criminals ala Alex Jones, Andrew Anglin, etc by begging for bitcoin before they all end up going "deepweb" to evade domain takedowns.

You may as well be buying drugs when you access such sites at that point, so it's by by normies. The cold hard reality = a video site that appeals to hate will be embargoed by love --organized resistance-- and find itself financially nonviable, begging for cryptocurrency like a criminal organization (which it may be in many high-IQ countries).