LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
The world is a scary and violent place. Without Liveleak, you might never feel it. Until you see the actual violence and gore, it doesn&#x27;t mean anything, it&#x27;s just empty words. I didn&#x27;t care <i>at all</i> about wars in the middle east until I saw the reality on Liveleak. Seeing dead children and people with their legs blown off made all the commentary on CNN and Fox seem so understated.<p>A lot is said about desensitization as a result of seeing horrible things on the internet, but in my experience, only the opposite was true. Seeing violence online when I was in my late teens <i>sensitized</i> me and made the stories on the TV real. Frankly, I owe a lot of my political beliefs (especially on foreign policy) to horrible realities I saw on Liveleak.