Comment by Workaccount2

The content easily available on the internet in the 00's is way far far far beyond what is available today.

Liveleak was an everyday video host and they had terrorist beheadings on the front page. Once the masses moved online and the power players consolidated everything into modern social media (reddit, facebook, youtube), it kinda sucked all the air out of the room and killed all the small sites, of which there was no shortage of "test the limits of free speech" content.

That being said, the modern incarnation of social media has probably caused far more youth mental destruction than rotten.com or faces of death.