laist.com — Flickr has been exposes this week of censoring Rebekah, Thomas Hawk, and now they have restricted the viewing of Malingering's pics. This is a woman who makes fun of people walking around in bad clothes in public places: LA open market malls, at beaches, etc. Oh and she takes a lot of pictures of her cats. All things "mum" wouldnt approve of?
May 18, 2007 View in Crawl 4
chongoMay 19, 2007
this is exactly like the whole heavy metal explicit content label thing. If anything this is good for both flickr and the artists themselves... Now I want to see which pictures were banned across the board.
x00xMay 19, 2007
David Letterman and CBS provide an excellent rationale for what Flickr has been forced to do in an effort to limit any liability the posting of unflattering images of this kind might bring against the company. What Flickr has done is quite understandable and is simply a matter of protecting itself from the same sort of liability suffered by CBS when forced to come up with a considerable amount of money to settle a case by someone who felt ridiculed in a David Letterman comedy bit a few years back.The regularly appearing comedy bit which featured silly multiple choice questions juxtaposed alongside people filmed randomly and unknowingly was quite funny but occasionally rude and insulting many of which venturing an area that made CBS' vulnerable to enormous liability as a result.The case several years ago involved a spectator, an older woman with a dowdy, matronly look, attending the annual tennis tournament held in Queens, NY as the merciless butt of Letterman's incessant ridicule, .the camera focusing on her in the crowd voraciously chomping on a peach in as unflattering manner imaginable, repeatedly shown again and again throughout the sketch. The story of the woman's lawsuit and CBS out of court settlement making news at the time. The comedyroutine a staple of the David Letterman show hasn't been seen lately.
loplaMay 19, 2007
This is getting RETARDED. Flickr is a private site. When you sign up you agree to use the site on THEIR terms, if you are too f'ing stupid to understand this then please F-OFF!
Closed AccountMay 19, 2007
I've been a member of Flickr for 2 years and have never had a problem with them. If I did I would leave. This photographer is FAR from one of the best on Flickr and if he doesn't want to be "censored" he should post elsewhere. I will say as I always do in these types of situations, to all those that bitch ... "No one is forcing you to post on Flickr if you don't like there rules leave." I can name about 1000 other places to post pictures on the internet, Flickr is not your only option.
inspecalityMay 19, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malingering/206279788/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/malingering/206279788/</a>Photo of Malingering. So she takes photos of women hotter than herself, then is a total bitch. What a valuable asset to Flickr.
thekronzMay 19, 2007
Do you think that girl in the pink is single?
Closed AccountMay 19, 2007
I agree. People outside the US have no right to be on da Intawab. It's MOM. (how did they get mom from mum, it's not that difficult is it. These people are the leaders of the free, cough, world, cough cough wheeze gasp)
ff89May 20, 2007
If this "Malingering" person is one of Flickr's "best" photographers, then I'm f**king Ansel Adams. And did anyone notice she seems to have a breast obsession? I wouldn't censor her photos, but a lot do seem to be in poor taste.
markdr123May 20, 2007
Yeah I agree actually - of her photosteam 210 photos are tagged 'boobs'.And most of her photos are crap anyway...
richardcclarkMay 21, 2007
Why is it when something becomes big and successful people start kicking it? Remember ten years ago when everybody thought Starbucks was so neat? flickr is a great thing, cut it some slack. The only reason I bothered to read this was to see who didn't understand the difference between its and it's (see title of this digg).Cheers,Richard
woowoogirlJan 26, 2008
News?Not!
stratosphere1Jan 30, 2008
The europeans are laughing at the double standard in the US.Maybe we should focus on REAL issues?
ratsoniceJan 31, 2008
We're such a sad society, worrying about those darn pics and the person on the othere end of the camera.
woowoogirlJun 18, 2008
Life is life. Why not show it? But it's OK to show all sorts of violencelet alone all the seriously violent video games our youngsters areimmersed in... <a class="user" href="http://healing-mind-and-body.com/What-Does-Herpes-Look-Like.html">http://healing-mind-and-body.com/What-Does-Herpes- ...</a>