thomashawk.com— The irony of having to look at a little Flickr Loves You bug at the top of my photo pages when it probably really should read Flickr Hates You....
Jun 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
Flickr and Yahoo are co-operating - happily - with censorship. In fact, they are even over-co-operating. It's one thing doing what you are forced to do, and another thing to bring in rules that do not even work.If Flickr and Yahoo's shareholders had any guts they would not have voted down the anti-censorship policy at their recent meeting:<a class="user" href="http://blog.zooomr.com/2007/06/13/zooomrs-stand-on-censorship/">http://blog.zooomr.com/2007/06/13/zooomrs-stand-on-censorship/</a> But they didn't, so they are the enemy of free expression, so we have every right to criticise them. There are always people who say 'there is no point' in complaining and protesting, but refusing to put up with a bad situation is what gets things changed. Not sneering at those who careEven though I am linking to an article on the Zoomr blog, I should say that I have decided to use Ipernity as my main photo-sharing site for a while. I'll be taking almost all my photos off flickr and won't be renewing my pro account when it runs out. I'm also going to do my best to make sure that people hear of alternatives to Yahoo's Flickr.
spaceman77Jun 17, 2007
I say all of us Flickr users massively defect to Zoomr or another online photo sharing site.I am emptying out and abandoning my flickr account now!
cryptokiJun 17, 2007
Ok.. so what again is deemed as a non safe image?, and what rights should we have in this scenario?
poxoeJun 18, 2007
Censorship sucks!!!Btw, if you want you may post any porn pics here at <a class="user" href="http://PickyPorn.com">http://PickyPorn.com</a> (Th Digg-Like Social Porn Network)
djackmansonJun 18, 2007
Flickr and Yahoo are co-operating - happily - with censorship. In fact, they are even over-co-operating. It's one thing doing what you are forced to do, and another thing to bring in rules that do not even work.If Flickr and Yahoo's shareholders had any guts they would not have voted down the anti-censorship policy at their recent meeting:<a class="user" href="http://blog.zooomr.com/2007/06/13/zooomrs-stand-on-censorship/">http://blog.zooomr.com/2007/06/13/zooomrs-stand-on-censorship/</a> But they didn't, so they are the enemy of free expression, so we have every right to criticise them. There are always people who say 'there is no point' in complaining and protesting, but refusing to put up with a bad situation is what gets things changed. Not sneering at those who careEven though I am linking to an article on the Zoomr blog, I should say that I have decided to use Ipernity as my main photo-sharing site for a while. I'll be taking almost all my photos off flickr and won't be renewing my pro account when it runs out. I'm also going to do my best to make sure that people hear of alternatives to Yahoo's Flickr.
spankaccountAug 3, 2007
Flickr has bigger issues. Like Comment whores<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/design/Comment_Whores_are_determined_to_totally_F_up_Flickr">http://www.digg.com/design/Comment_Whores_are_determined_to_totally_F_up_Flickr</a>