All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. The New Syrian Army member was a slaughtered along with two others who had their. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. DISTURBING video shows an ISIS prisoner's head be blown clean off by a jihadi controlling a large artillery gun. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. We simply will not host further beheadings" from ISIS. The site added that "this does not mean we won't continue to show graphic media should we deem it reasonable to do so, we will continue despite the regular condemnation, in other words for the most part nothing is going to change. "It's this which prompted us" to effectively ban future ISIS videos. The site has provided access to other such videos in the past.īut "there is every chance - given the rumours of hostage stockpiling currently doing the rounds - that we could see a return to the dark times of 2004/5 when beheadings happened with an alarming and depressing regularity," the statement said. The (unnamed) LiveLeak operators said they'd had several meetings about the Foley beheading video. In other words, even LiveLeak wants to draw a line somewhere - mirroring decisions by YouTube, Twitter ( TWTR) and Facebook ( FB) about what sorts of objectionable material may be shared by users. Friday 22 August 2014 17:13 LiveLeak, a video streaming site known for its toleration of gory and graphic videos, has announced that it will no longer host videos of beheadings carried out by Isis.
The fact of the matter is that many millions of Internet users seek out sites like LiveLeak to see the very kind of gruesome content that traditional media refrain from showing viewers.īut "our belief in your rights to view whatever you wish do not override our rights to not host it here," LiveLeak said. ISIS-aligned jihadists have released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 blindfolded Christian men in Nigeria. They said they'd hold a live discussion with users later on Thursday. Some of LiveLeak's users may strongly disagree, and the website acknowledged as much in its statement. Related: Twitter removes images of James Foley's death See also the video, Al- Qa'ida Holds Family Fun Day in War Torn Aleppo, Liveleak, July 24.