Monday, March 31, 2008
The Ghost sends a Free World newsflash to alert us to the fact that, following increased security precautions, British-based LiveLeak has re-posted the movie Fitna:
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.
We sleep safely in our beds at night because rough men from private security firms stand ready to do violence on our behalf at an exorbitant hourly fee.
My guess is that they felt better once they saw other people publishing the video on the web. Strength in numbers.