this is fairly tangential, but if you follow the article’s link to a Wired article about the use of Hydrogen Cyanide, that article links to a liveleak video of

this is fairly tangential, but if you follow the article’s link to a Wired article about the use of Hydrogen Cyanide, that article links to a liveleak video of a lawyer committing suicide in a courtroom using cyanide. through this I found out that liveleak is dead I never really used liveleak - I’m not one for gory videos - but I liked that it existed. and now it’s just another example of the anodisation of the internet: anything vaguely controversial is gone. look at reddit. reddit isn’t even publicly traded and they are still bowing to the pressures to ban controversy. with those bans huge chunks of modern culture and history; tumblr banned porn and it’s not coming back[1]; stable diffusion and dall-e have the American idea of morals baked into them the internet used to be a place of freedom of thought and expression, and now, thanks to censoring powers of mastercard and visa, it’s not. now it’s like television, or film, or any other old media censored before release. it’s incredibly fucking sad and I hope the obsessive archivers of this world have made a dent into saving these things [1] - https://photomatt.tumblr.com/post/696629352701493248/why-go-nuts-show-nuts-doesnt-work-in-2022 https://photomatt.tumblr.com/post/696629352701493248/why-go-...