Monday, March 31, 2008

Live Leak Faces Death, Faints, and gets up and Fights

We previously reported that Live Leak, the original distributor of
Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about the Quran (English) had withdrawn the film due to threats. Now it is back up, with this explanation:
** 30/3/2008: Liveleak Update **

On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film "fitna" from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules. We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but when you run a website you don't consider that some people would be insecure enough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like the content of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted.
Good show.

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