LiveLeak vs. YouTube
There's a new kid in town.It's another video-based website like YouTube.com but it specializes in video that might not be popular with some folks. After a few clicks on some of the "recently made popular" videos I can understand why. Unlike Youtube, which bans violent content, LiveLeak allows controversial clips of war, conflict and death.
This means you can find disturbing videos of Iraqi insurgents throwing grenades at humvees, a baby playing with a cobra snake (below), or even a crazy person who throws herself at a car. In short, LiveLeak is reality TV at its best.
Baby plays with Cobra snake
As a father, I felt a knot in my stomach after watching the video of the King Cobra. However, after reading the comments I realized that the snake was most likely de-fanged, which renders it harmless. In America we let our children play with dogs, in India they play with Cobra snakes. Got it.
It will be intersting to see if this new website will gain momentum in the near future. According to CNN, it is a privately held company with little funding and most of the founders still work elsewhere during the day. Wait, that sounds a lot like YouTube just a couple years before it was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion.
posted by Alan De Keyrel @ 9:42 AM
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2 Comments:
I loved liveleak.
i admit that I uploaded my medical video and it was banned at youtube.
I opened youtube-sucks.com
I think its wrong to censor videos.
ELY M.
LiveLeak is a good site for the content. However they censor just as much as youtube just in a different way (more personal, emotional). If you say something they dont like but is not against the rules then you are banned. They just made it so you have to register to view, which is like shooting yourself in the foot. They allow terrorist to post the hate. I would not recommend this site and I have been going there since it was born.
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