Flickr Censorship

In February 2009, Flickr set my account to Restricted status, resulting in a drastic decrease in stream and photo viewership. During this incident, my entire stream become unavailable to public, which means that my photos on Flickr can no longer be viewed on SML Wiki. Additionally, my portfolio is down, and I was no longer able to post anything to any of the groups I participate in.

This article recounts what happened to my account, my discussion with the Flickr staff, together with data, screenshots, photo examples, related blog posts on the Internet, as well as up-to-date Meta Search Alerts results found on the net.

Table of Contents

My experience

2008-03-04: SML Flickr Stats: Daily volume ~4,000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2310874877/
flickr:2310874877

2008-07-13: SML Flickr Stats: Daily volume ~4,000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2664415869/
flickr:2664415869

2008-08-04: SML Flickr Stats: Daily volume ~4,000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2791732938/
flickr:2791732938

2008-11-17: SML Flickr Stats: Daily volume ~4,000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3038041941/
flickr:3038041941

2009-03-04: SML Flickr Stats: Daily volume ~200

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3328979109/
flickr:3328979109

2009-03-04: SML to Flickr: Why is my stream flagged as moderate? = Severely diminished traffic volume

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3328979109/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/stats

For absolutely unknown reasons, my stream has been flagged as 'moderate' recently which lead to a drop of 90% traffic volume. This is very severe and I hope to figure this one out soon.

2009-03-04: SML Twitter: [SML to Flickr] WTF?!

http://twitter.com/seeminglee/statuses/1281209373
[SML to Flickr] WTF?! http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3328979109/

2009-03-15: Group Participation disallowed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3328979109/
I just noted that because of this change, I can no longer participate in my groups - like posting designs to graphic design groups????!??!?! I don't get this. Someone please help.

2009-03-23: SML Twitter: Moving from SML Flickr to SML Picasa

http://twitter.com/seeminglee/statuses/1378427368
Proc: SML Flickr to SML Picasa (Flickr's recent q? actions made it impossible 4ny1 to syndicate my content) switching to gg servers 4now

2009-05-24: SML Post on GetSatisfaction.com

http://getsatisfaction.com/flickr/topics/why_is_my_account_flagged_as_moderate_and_what_must_i_do_to_return_life_to_normal

Why is my account flagged as moderate and what must I do to return life to normal?

Despite continually checking the help forums and reading the TOS, I still have not a clue why my account was marked as being 'moderate' as opposed to safe. It has since caused many problems for me, namely:

  • I can no longer retrieve RSS feeds of any of my photographs.
  • I can no longer post photos to any of my groups because the account labeling effectively makes all my assets appear to be 'restricted' to the system regardless of their content.
  • Because of this status change, none of my assets are public, thus they no longer show up on any Flickr API calls.
  • This means my photographs no longer get picked up by Gothamist, NowPblic and other blogs, which have traditionally sent me many referrals.
  • This also means that many of my site's application which depends on the Flickr API now appears to all be broken but unfortunately unfixable.

Daily visitors to my stream dropped from ~4,000/day to 400 when it first happened and now I'm getting ~5/day on my stats, which is very depressive.

So far no one from Flickr nor any of the members (my friends + contacts) appear to understand why my account is flagged, and I am wondering if any of you would have a clue. I have already gone through the 6000+ items on my stream to revalidate and reflag items as appropriate but so far have not heard a word from Flickr and I found that to be odd.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. As an fyi, my Flickr URL is http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee

Thanks,
See-ming

mood: sad: I’m depressed, confused and frustrated.

2009-05-26 15:30 Flickr to SML: Nude/sexualized content must be moderated correctly.

via email

Hello,

Re-read the entire E-mail below.
Nude/sexualized content must be moderated correctly.

To demonstrate that you understand what content in your
photostream is not appropriate for the "safe" areas of the
Flickr site, we ask that you moderate all the public,
private, and friends/family content in your photostream
within the Flickr Community Guidelines.

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

http://flickr.com/help/filters/

All sexualized/nude content in your photostream needs to be
classified as "restricted".
(marking the content as private is different then
moderating the content as "restricted")

You can bulk moderate your "restricted" content using the
organizr tool.
(Do not worry about moderating your "safe" content)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/

Load your images into the organizr tool, pull all(public,
private, and friends/family) images that need to be marked
as "restricted" into the main window, choose the
"restricted" option from the "permissions/set safety filter"
pulldown on top, click save and you're done.

Because your account status is set to "restricted", all of
the images will appear as "restricted" in the organizr tool.
This may seem a little confusing at first but if you take
the required action of moderating your content as
"restricted" where appropriate, that will show on our side
when you request a re-review of your account status.

Regards,
-Terrence

2009-06-03 11:43 SML to Flickr: Define 'sexualized'?

via email

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my email. I'm really glad that you helped clarify that the media items ought to be restricted as opposed to 'moderate'. I have reclassified media items as recommended.

I am however unsure whether you'd consider kissing to be sexualized items or not so I'm leaving them as 'moderate' though it feels somewhat odd to me that it would be considered unsafe… so perhaps you can help me with my query. … a link to my project "kiss" if you can help me with it… otherwise I believe that I've classify all other items according to your guidelines.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/sets/72157602398968495/

Thanks,
See-ming

2009-06-03 13:23 Flickr to SML: 'Sexualized' examples on SML Flickr

via email

Hello,

Examples of sexualized(skintight clothing) content in your
photostream that needs to be marked as "restricted".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1354739897/
flickr:1354739897

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/693803699/
flickr:693803699

-Terrence

2009-06-04 SML Data: Google Page Rank

Example photo pages given by Flickr apparently have Google Page Rank=6 - setting them to 'Restricted' reduced these pages to 0. Compare with SML Flickr page which has Google Page Rank=5.

2009-06-05 02:18 SML to Flickr: I have applied filtering criteria

via email

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me. I have applied similar filtering criteria to the rest of my stream. Please let me know if it now satisfies your guidelines.

Thanks,
See-ming

2009-06-05 06:18 Flickr to SML: No you haven't

via email

Hello,

You still have more content that needs to be moderated.

-Terrence

2009-06-07 12:49 SML to Flickr: Trouble filtering using Organizr

via email

Hi, sorry but I have trouble locating images using Organizr to find which ones I haven't been moderated yet…

The main cause for this is that there does not appear to be a way where I can filter out items that I have not marked as restricted yet as the Flickr system automatically marked all my cotnent as restricted becuase of the flag.

While I believe that I have marked content as being restricted — it appears that no mattter what I do, the filter just lists items as being restricted and there does not appear to be a way that I can utilize to then monitor my progress.

Thoughts?

2009-06-07 12:51 SML to Flickr: Censorship standards for 'restricted' content taken at public events

via email

Additionally frustrating:

Many of the photos that you deem 'restricted' were in fact photographed at public events as journalist / photographer and I am not sure how to approach these and those same photos were used in the media.

/SML

2009-06-07 13:28 Flickr to SML: Regardless of where the images were taken

via email

Hello,

Sexualized/nude/skin tight underwear/shorts images need to
be marked as "restricted" regardless of where the images
were taken or how they have been used.

-Terrence

2009-06-07 13:55 SML to Flickr: I have trouble using Organizr to moderate

via email

Sure — can you answer my previous question though:

Hi, sorry but I have trouble locating images using Organizr to find which ones I haven't been moderated yet…

The main cause for this is that there does not appear to be a way where I can filter out items that I have not marked as restricted yet as the Flickr system automatically marked all my cotnent as restricted becuase of the flag.

While I believe that I have marked content as being restricted — it appears that no mattter what I do, the filter just lists items as being restricted and there does not appear to be a way that I can utilize to then monitor my progress.

ie How can I tell if I have marked something or not? While I believe that I have, the system simply flag everything one way…

Thanks,
SML

2009-06-07 14:53 Flickr to SML: All images set to 'restricted' and account classified as 'safe'

via email

Hello,

I have reset all of the images in your photostream to
"restricted" and classified your account as "safe".
This will give you a chance to start over.
Keep the Flickr guidelines in mind when moderating your
content to "safe" in the future.
"safe" means no sexualized/nude content.

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

http://flickr.com/help/filters/

Regards,
-Terrence

2009-06-07 16:50 SML to Flickr: How do you determine what is moderated vs restricted? Is photographs of swimmer at Olympics considered 'sexualized'?

via email

I took many photos from a skydiving site —a the location many skydivers are bare-chested. Is that sexualized to the guidelines?

Accordingly, when is a photograph of a swimmer considered sexualised vs not?

Further, how do you determine what is moderated vs restricted?

I am struggling with your directive because none of the official guidelines talk about anything about 'sexualized' content. Likewise, some of my photography images, when displayed on the public web, is considered safe according to Google Safety Filter, which is considered to be quite good. I haven't checked the Yahoo algorithm but I am wondering why Flickr cannot use the same algorithm to determine at least for the initial pass what is considered safe or not.

Thanks,
SML

2009-06-07 16:55 Flickr to SML: Bare chested = safe, Skintight underwear/shorts/swim trunks = restricted

via email

Hello,

Bare chested men is fine to be marked as "safe".
Skintight underwear/shorts/swim trunks, etc.. images need
to be marked as "restricted".

-Terrence

2009-06-07 16:59 SML to Flickr: Are these safe / moderate / restricted?

via email

Photos in question:

Also, as an fyi, all of my images taken even at public events received consent and model release from those being photographed and I am in awe that any be deemed voyeurism.

Skydiving
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1103328369
flickr:1103328369

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1103336339
flickr:1103336339

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1104195410
flickr:1104195410

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1104005610
flickr:1104005610

Performance:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1450900286
flickr:1450900286

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2682489660
flickr:2682489660

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/1387934197
flickr:1387934197

Beach
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2598890459
flickr:2598890459

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2598473699
flickr:2598473699

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/611024529
flickr:611024529

Parade
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/692986533
flickr:692986533

public event
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/589103859
flickr:589103859

2009-06-07 17:12 Flickr to SML: Examples of moderate images on SML Flickr

via email

Hello,

Regardless of where an image is taken, it needs to be
moderated.

Moderate:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/611024529/
flickr:611024529

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/589103859/
flickr:589103859

The other images are fine to be marked as "safe".

-Terrence

2009-06-09 SML Post on GetSatisfation.com

http://getsatisfaction.com/flickr/topics/why_is_my_account_flagged_as_moderate_and_what_must_i_do_to_return_life_to_normal#reply_1138185

I don't know if it has to do with this site or not, but I never received a response from Flickr support staff after sending a request for review… and shortly after posting this message, I get an email from them.

Many emails have been exchanged since this first contact and I am glad to announce that the matter has been resolved. I have plans to document this incident including its resolution on my wiki when I am available, which would hopefully be soon now that I no longer have to struggle with the media migration of 6000 images from Flickr to Picasa…

/SML

mood: indifferent: I’m lukewarm towards Flickr at this point, but I'm giving them some more credits because of YQL.

2009-08-26 SML Flickr Stats: Daily volume ~1,500

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3866067033
flickr:3866067033

2009-09-09 SML Pro Blog: Flickr Censorship Standards = Gay Bashing?

http://blog.seeminglee.com/2009/09/flickr-censorship-standards-gay-bashing.html

Earlier this year, Flickr popped my account to "restricted" status, resulting in a 4000 to 200 daily stream views.
flickr:3328979109

It took me 6 months to figure out what the hell was wrong. I didn't get a reply from the official staff despite several attempts to contact them. Eventually I got so pissed off that I did a Twitter stunt and posted a long-winded outcry long-winded outcry on GetSatisfaction.com. That appears to help, I got a reply from the Flickr staff within one day.

Apparently, according to Flickr standards, the image below is to be treated as moderate / restricted.
flickr:3902043543

Personally I do not understand why this image is moderate. Afterall, don't you see guys like this *all the time*?

Flickr replied by saying that the image needs to be moderate because the person is wearing "skin-tight" clothing. I then asked them if I took photos at the Olympics or at the beach, do I need to mark them as moderate as well, to which they reply, that "regardless of where they were taken, they need to be moderated."

In other words, according to Flickr Censorship standards, this will only appear in an R-rated movie. Meanwhile, the Yahoo Pride page during 2007 happily use my photos on their site, so WTF?!

As such the image above is flagged as moderate as well. Even though I disagree with Flickr's standards…

One thing to note, also, is that the image below, which was taken at a skydiving event, was considered OK to Flickr. The only difference is that the guy above is gay and the guy below is straight.

flickr:3901549297

Anyhow, SML Flickr is now "safe" after flagging all these images to moderate to restricted status, but this standard appears questionable.

2009-09-14 SML Flickr: SML Wiki: Flickr Censorship / 2009-09-14 / SML Screenshots

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3918268483/

flickr:3918268483

Comments

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3918268483/comment72157622366017404/

dididumm says:
Glad you're 'visible' again now, even though it seems to have been hard work. As for the flickr standards: I won't discuss them here, it's their website, so in the end they can do whatever they want (it's also not really censorship, again let's leave it to that), but I think it's a problem not only related to flickr, but all the internet. What used to be a toy for adults for some reason needs to become more and more 'safe for children'. With all the consequences. Depending on the location of the website (flickr being US based), certain content is becoming restricted according to - more or less vague - laws.

IMHO when it comes to morally right or wrong we (the western part of the world) are going more and more back to the 50s. Just watch random movies from the 70s or 80s, and compare the nude content to what is 'allowed' in modern movies. It's strange. I just happened to get some old magazines from the early 70s, you wouldn't believe how many naked people (mainly women though) were shown in ads back then - even naked children, which is a no-go, if not illegal, nowadays. Don't get me wrong, these weren't some sort of weird special interests magazines, just the normal ones for every good housewife.

I think you're not right in one point though: referring to the photos of the two guys (2009-09-09), there's actually more difference than one being gay and the other being straight (I couldn't have told from the photos anyway :D). The first one is of course more sexualized (the pose, the focus, the clothes he's wearing) than the second one. I'm not saying I agree with all of the flickr standards, but I can understand that (according to their standards) they consider the second photo 'safe', whereas the first one isn't.

Just my two (or more) cents ;o)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3918268483/comment72157622254525483/

See-ming Lee 李思明 SML says:
dididumm

Thank you for taking the time to comment on this. I really appreciate your thoughts.

I agree with you that Flickr is a business and they are ethical in making their own decision regarding what they consider to be safe vs moderate vs restricted. As a Flickr citizen participating on this commercial site, I will submit to their rules and regulations, however I think that it is important for me to speak my mind.

Regarding sexualised imagery, I have trouble figuring out what is moderate vs restricted. This is something I believe I need to investigate a bit more.

As always, your input is very much appreciated!

Cheers,
See-ming

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flickr: Racist and Homophobic, or Scamming?

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/flickr-racist-and-homophobic-or-scamming
by dysamoria | May 31, 2008 at 02:10 am

By now, readers of my tales of whoa regarding my personal flickr.com experiences know that i have an ax to grind with flickr staff and "leadership." Take that statement as a full disclosure of potential bias on my part, but please hear me out.

Over the last year, we've seen flickr censor access to entire countries, citing legal liability (a questionable excuse, if not utterly ludicrous and mere Yahoo! lawyer butt covering). We've seen them delete user content and then back pedal with statements from founder Stewart Butterfield about how flickr staff will take more care in future to investigate first instead of deleting, which showed up as asking never and just deleting (but sending you a scolding via email), which made Butterfield a liar. When i confronted them with this very issue upon the (unwarned, uncommunicated) deletion of content from my account, i was given passive-aggressive "talk to the hand" responses, claims of violating the TOU (which they would never specify how), eventually followed by the deletion of my entire PAID account, and a new free one i created to attempt taking their policies to task in public view once more. Now i'm just totally blocked from view.

Don't question mommie in public or you'll get a beating when you go home.

Since these events, i've been witness to paying flickr members abandoning their paid accounts to move on to other photo sharing communities after their complaints of harassment and "pervy" abuse of their children's photos went 100% unhandled (and requests for help gone unreplied). i've a contact on flickr who was forced to move to a new account because, like mine, flickr staff has marked his account NIPSA (which is flickr's way of saying that your entire photostream is unsafe for the general population, despite the fact that users can and do moderate their own content). This contact of mine had nothing offensive in public view (again, like myself). He was blocked, by my estimation, because he is gay and sometimes does photo shoots that involve men in situations of love and lust, trust and fear; the artistic expression of age old stories of the human condition. He created a new, paid, account to attempt to start over, since he (like myself) is blocked from ever being seen by anyone not already a contact/friend of his. The public cannot see him. His work will never show on the flickr front page or be in the much coveted hall of fame called "Explore." He is blocked, NIPSAd, censored because… flickr staff are homophobic? i've communicated with this man privately. He is no pervert or exhibitionist. He is a thoughtful, budding photographer who has decided to explore many facets of his inner self along with any collaborators he finds along the way. His photos are of the human condition, not schlock or shock. He told me that he was building a new account for multiple reasons, but i sense the final nail in the coffin was being NIPSAd.

Why is it that he and i have been NIPSAd, yet i constantly accidentally run into full frontal nudity in most any area of the flickr community which runs the gamet from tasteless schlock to artistic expression? Why is a gay man's artistic expression censored? Is it because some insecure flickr staff member is uncomfortable seeing photos of two men expressing emotions via skin to skin contact? Why was i deleted and censored? Is it because the flickr management is too full of themselves to follow their own terms or use and too shallow and arrogant to be seen making liars of themselves and their bosses? Is it because they don't like the same content that they previously marked as SAFE one week prior to deleting my account and the follow-up account?

Homophobia is racism just as much as the hate or discrimination of persons with different national origin or skin color is racism. Discrimination is discrimination. Period. It doesn't matter what kind of discrimination it is.

Now, a new censoring technique has been established: groups have had their administration settings modified en mass, behind the scenes, without warning the group administrators and moderators. The new system policies have made things so that members who's photostreams have been censored and marked as "unsafe," "NIPSA" or "restricted" cannot add their images to a group. The only way this can be changed is if the group changes their settings to allow "restricted" content. The problem with this is that the group is then AUTOMATICALLY changed to an 18+ group and is made invisible to the public. It is then only discoverable by members who have disabled "safe search." Non-members CANNOT disable "safe search." Non-members cannot view 18+ content… even if the content isn't really adult in nature.

This has directly affected me in a most offensive manner: i am no longer able to share my personal self documentation of my autism research with other members of flickr who have groups dedicated to ausitm and Asperger's Syndrome. These are groups of autistic persons and parents of autistic children. Many of my contacts and on-line associates/friends began contact with me because of my open sharing of my autistic life on flickr and the fact that they felt they had gained some new understanding that would help them with their children.

Discrimination against persons with disabilities is racism just as homophobia is racism. The only problem is, there isn't a word for this type of discrimination. The word "homophobia" carries a meaning and a weight. So about a year ago i coined the term "neuroracism." (WikiPedia refused my addition). flickr is discriminating against me based on neuroracism. They are also negatively affecting the groups which have members who expressed appreciation for my contributions. Neuroracism.

When i started posting about this racism and censorship, i started hearing from contacts and friends about how their other contacts and friends have experienced similar discrimination (account blockage or deletion). Many members are edgy and afraid that some harmless upload will get their account deleted.

Then i wondered… Is this a scam? Is flickr crippling accounts just to push members into paying for another, new "pro" account subscription? That would be highly illegal.

At this point, nothing would surprise me. The leadership at flickr have demonstrated amoral and sociopathic attitudes towards their members. Clearly they do not grasp the concept that their users and paying customers ARE flickr. Without the community, there would be only a tool. A great tool, but an empty tool.

i encourage other reporters, editorialists and flickr members to investigate. i encourage anyone who has had unpleasant dealings with Yahoo/flickr to report these experiences to the Better Business Bureau and publish them to NowPublic and anywhere else relevant (news and communities). By being a memberof flickr , paying or not, you MAKE flickr exist. Even as a free member, flickr makes money: the more members, the more advertizing revenue they bring in. Even if that number of members is artificially inflated by forcing existing members to create new accounts, just as what GeoCities or Yahoo did when it resurrected deleted GeoCities accounts to bolster their membership numbers for Yahoo's buyout interest or advertizer interest (i had deleted my GeoCities website months before the buyout and accidentally discovered it was resurrected - i was unable to delete it so i forced them to do it for me by lambasting the Yahoo start page and posting the link everywhere i could).

To paraphrase Ghandi: It's your world. Make it be what it should be.

These services are SERVICES. Make them provide what they claim. Make them provide what you PAID for.

Last comment: since when was it acceptable to refuse refunds for services not rendered? Clicking on "I Agree" to some 5000-word legalese essay (which can be summed up with the six-word phrase "By joining, you have no rights") does not a legal contract make. Look up contracts in law some time. Better yet, read those "agreements" and "Terms Of Use/Service" instead of just mindlessly clicking on that "I Agree" button. Maybe you DON'T agree.

Take back your world and your rights as a human being. Fight discrimination and any other illegal behavior. Don't just throw your hands up and give in. Computer-land or not, these things matter and they carry on to the "real world" faster than you can sneeze.

Censorship and Harassment at Flickr.com: My Personal Experience

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/censorship-and-harassment-flickr-com-my-personal-experience
by dysamoria | September 21, 2007 at 02:03 pm

i was a member of flickr from June 2006 to September 7th. i renewed my membership in June 2007. Flickr deleted my account. They owe me reinstatement or refund.

Why did they delete me? i embarrassed them. Or, more specifically, i embarrassed one staff member, so it seems. Michelle. My original intent in posting the material that Michelle deleted, without warning, was as a public service to the victims of one "dave sewell" also known as "angelfishsolo" on flickr. This is a man who has harassed several other members, especially women and the men they associate with. This is a man who brought his hate-fest to me, a complete stranger, because he seems to have felt that antagonizing me would be a great way to continue harassing his other victims (who i had been flickr friends with for some time). i posted the entire exchange between sewell and myself via flickr and private email into one of my photos, demonstrating that sewell is a liar and uses his flickr account for harassment and intimidation of other flickr members, which clearly violates the flickr Terms Of Use "agreement." My posting broke no such rules, but it was deleted, without warning or contact. No discussion. No questions asked, just deletion. POWER over others, demonstrated by flickr staff Michelle.

So i reposted, including Michelle's "after the fact" messages to me, as well as the email address for the "case number" of this event. i also criticized her choice of actions. She didn't like that. She deleted my text again, but this time left the photo. Why? Maybe because i was RIGHT in stating that deletion first is a BAD policy. Especially since flickr founder Stewart Butterfield, just 6 months ago, stated that flickr would be erring on the side of caution from there on (there was a massive event of censorship that earned flickr a black eye in the media, though i do not have the 450+ supporters that the flickr member of that event had, i fully intend to publicize my experience just the same).

When Michelle deleted my latest content, i decided to push it up a level and made a public posting in the forums. This earned me deletion.

For the FULL details, including comments by sewell's other victims, comments by sewell that he tried to hide after the fact, and the case numbers, emails, etc, see my blog. (rather than duplicate it all here).

The story starts here: http://dysamoria.com/blog/2007/08/the_microcosm.html
BROKEN LINK AND I DON'T KNOW WHY

continues here: http://dysamoria.com/blog/2007/09/flickr-has-deleted-me-instead-of-real.html

and then here with my open letter to Stewart Butterfield: http://dysamoria.com/blog/2007/09/open-letter-to-stewart-butterfield-of.htm

and then on to here: http://dysamoria.com/blog/2007/09/flickrs-continued-censorship.html

Be forewarned: It's long, but that's why things like this get passed over and ignored. It's not really that complicated, it's just not in an easy-reader format. It all happened as i said above. i do HIGHLY recommend reading all the comments at each post. You will get a good perspective of the reality as is presented uncensored, instead of as is presented by those who would have you see their own distorted reality. dave sewell's statements speak for themselves, just remember that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath and have your sociopath handbook with you as you read his comments (especially noting his deletion of comments he posted and his general behavior).

EDIT: BBB Yahoo-flickr Complaint.rtf

Thomas Hawk

Someone's started a Flickr Is Fascist Blog, Accuses Flickr of Anti-Gay Censorship Policies

http://thomashawk.com/2009/08/someones-started-a-flickr-is-fascist-blog-accuses-flickr-of-anti-gay-censorship-policies.html

flickr:3815606152
Update: I just got banned from the Flickr help forum for posting a link about the new blog there.
flickr:3815707440
I've Been Banned From the Flickr Help Forum
Update #2: the Flickr is Fascist blog has moved to http://saynotoflickr.blogspot.com/
Well it looks like someone’s finally gotten sick and tired enough of Flickr account deletions that they’ve launched a “Flickr is Fascist” blog. And before you ask, no, it wasn’t me.

The blog seems to focus especially on the recent rash of censorship on Flickr dealing with male non-porn gay related photostreams. The new site specifically calls out the fact that flickr censors closed their thread in the help forum entitled “Flickr’s new anti-gay policy” among others.

In addition to the help forum post above being locked by Flickr staff, there have been several recent cases on Flickr where photos showing either non-nude male self portraits, non-nude male models, or photos of men in public have been either recharacterized as “restricted” NIPSA accounts or have been deleted entirely. In one case, a professional photographer who focused on non nude beefcake type male models, Edelson Flores, had his entire photostream deleted with Flickr citing the fact that he was posting other people’s work as their reasoning. Flores has denied that his stream contained photos that were not his and in fact had his own copyright watermark over every photo in his stream.

In a post on the new “Flickr is Fascist” blog they point out specifically what they feel is a double standard when it comes to Flickr’s deletion of candid photos of males in public in the post “Flickr has Issues With the Male Body:”

“A community of ‘candid’ photographers of men in public situations (all of whom have paid for their accounts in good faith) has been displaced and silenced on photo-sharing site Flickr in less than a fortnight. Four prominent photostreams as well as countless photos vanished from July 6th 2009 to July 13th 2009 without warning or right to appeal. At least one site had over a million hits in less than a year. Flickr has stubbornly refused to give a reason for its recent axe-grinding mission against these sites, but one user was given the reason ‘voyeur content’ after more than 8 days of asking for a reason yet that particular site contained pictures of men in public which is legal. Flickr has refused to expand on the reason it gave, but cited its ambiguous and open-ended ‘Don’t be creepy’ clause in its Terms of Service asjustification for terminating at least one photostream. Flickr has also silenced debate about the issue on its Help Forum. When confronted with whether or nor the famous Robert Doisineau candid image of the kissing couple in Paris was voyeur content or simply a candid street photo, Flickr immediately closed the thread and banned the user from challenging Flickr’s inability to define ‘voyeur content’ as opposed to candid content. Disturbingly Flickr has refused to reopen the debate. Another thread ‘ Flickr’s new anti-gay policy’ was also closed in a mater of hours. Is it a a coincidence that the many candid men sites were closed within a week? Flickr silent wall of automated e-mails will never let you know.”

It will be interesting to see if this new blog or other public criticism of Flickr’s censorship policies will in fact have any impact on the account deletions that seem to be taking place almost daily on the site.
Thomas Hawk's FriendFeed: Someone’s Started a Flickr is Fascist Blog, Accuses Flickr of Anti-Gay Censorship Policies

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  • Thomas Hawk: Flickr: The Help Forum: How long to respond to a complaint? 1256919420|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Thomas Hawk
    Flickr: The Help Forum: How long to respond to a complaint? - http://www.flickr.com/help...
    Nispell liked this
    "On 7 August I received the following email "Hi veggiesosage, In joining Flickr, you agreed to abide by the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Specifically, you must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Flickr members: flickr.com/guidelines.gne If we continue to see further harassing behavior through comments or FlickrMail, we will take further action that may include termination without warning. Regards, Zack" I replied the same day asking for an explanation as I honestly am quite sure that I have not harassed anybody, nor impersonated anybody for that matter, and I also complained about what I considered to a be wholly false accusation. The only thing I can think of is that my account has been hacked but I really can't see how that has happened. I chased it up 22 Aug, and 24 October yet have had nothing more than acknowledgments. How do you persuade flickr staff to treat you in a reasonable manner and a) not make false accusations without explanation and b) reply to complaints? vs" - Thomas Hawk
    I don't mind the no service part as much, I just mind the deleting people's content that doesn't belong to them for stupid reasons part. - Thomas Hawk
    Here's Pierre's first post back: http://www.flickr.com/help... - Stephanie Keating
  • Thomas Hawk: YHOO's stock is down almost 2% now. Is this because Flickr's gone offline? 1256057700|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Thomas Hawk
    YHOO's stock is down almost 2% now. Is this because Flickr's gone offline?
    nick, Gregg Demario, Jason Huebel and 12 other people liked this
    time to buy! - eyebex
    social media is a relatively new thing. It's big enough and the data is considered valuable enough to warrant the outrage we're seeing when the admins show us how fragile it is, especially in their hands. There needs to be a charter, some sort of code of practice that forbids any abuse of power. It needs to be written by the community, for the data it protects is the collective property of that community, not its administrators. In fact the administrators should be elected by and accountable to the community, much like those in public office. - nick
    very well said Nick. Unfortunately I doubt the power hungry community management team at flickr is likely to go without a fight. But you are very right. Community Managers should be protectors of data not destroyers of data. - Thomas Hawk
  • Thomas Hawk: Why Flickr's nuking of DMU is such a blow for an uncensored community. 1255965660|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Thomas Hawk
    Why Flickr's nuking of DMU is such a blow for an uncensored community.
    Almond Butterscotch liked this
    In nuking DMU without any warning Flickr sent a message that uncensored groups will not be tolerated on flickr. While the complete disruption of a large group on Flickr was horrible. Equally bad is the tone that this sets going forward. We all know that the Flickr TOS/CG are *horribly* vague. By nuking DMU (and threatening to nuke it again) unless admins follow Flickr's interpretation of their TOS/CG as mind readers, it opens up forums on Flickr to petty censorship. The Flickr TOS/CG is vague enough that any admin of any group can take any content in any group and apply a "Flickr TOS/CG violation to it. Any admin can claim that any group member is being "that guy" or is being "creepy" or is harassing another member, or threatening someone. What used to be harmless and natural engagement in groups can now be used by petty tyrant group admins to squash speech that they dislike using the TOS/CG as their hammer and deflecting criticism directed at them for simply censoring free speech. Unpopular members can be driven out of groups and when a user is called on it they can just cite the TOS/CG terms and their desire to avoid being nuked by Flickr. That is unfortunate and a blow for free speech. - Thomas Hawk
  • Thomas Hawk: Flickr Nukes DMUFlickr Nukes DMU 1 1255378920|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Thomas Hawk
    Flickr Nukes DMU
    nivcalderon, Ricardo Liberato, Holger Eilhard and 42 other people liked this
    very disturbing ,,,, just as I was looking at the Mashable Site ,, on there 4 Billion images ,, - johnpiercy
    Flickr's behaviour was a bit abrupt, but DMU being deleted was an accident waiting to happen – the admins were never really entitled to host an 'uncensored' group, as they were always subject to Flickr's rules. And although the deletion related to one incident, DMU always had a very antagonistic atmosphere that had the propensity to give rise to abusive discourse. Also, this isn't the same as deleting someone's work; the only thing lost is old discussions that almost no one would have read again anyway. - sally white
    Oh Sally, you are so wrong. You were not a part of that community. We had a nine page thread called listen to DJ Mo. It was full of great music links. It was frequently accessed, it may sound stupid but we had a significant thread of gifs that we were all collecting together. Mo's stupid photography questions was a frequently accessed thread full of great photo advice for people, accessed regularly. We had long detailed debates and conversations and frequently accessed old threads to reference what people had said before. It was a living vibrant archive that didn't need to be nuked. At a minimum it could have been locked and that rich archive been allowed to exist for all of us who ha created it. - Thomas Hawk
  • Thomas Hawk: An Open Letter to Elisa Steele EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Yahoo Inc. on the New "The Internet is You," Yahoo Marketing CampaignAn Open Letter to Elisa Steele EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Yahoo Inc. on the New "The Internet is You," Yahoo Marketing Campaign 1 1255455960|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Thomas Hawk
    An Open Letter to Elisa Steele EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Yahoo Inc. on the New "The Internet is You," Yahoo Marketing Campaign - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
    An Open Letter to Elisa Steele EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Yahoo Inc. on the New
    Mike E, April Russo (app103), Alex Kapranoff and 18 other people liked this
    Bravo Thomas. The more I see of this kind of thing, the more convinced I am that I won't be renewing my Pro account. I hope that the members will consider likewise. Yes there is a huge, valuable community on Flickr, however, it is time to build the community elsewhere. Yahoo needs to be shown that people are talking with their "feet" not just their mouths. It is obvious words don't mean anything to Yahoo. - Kenton
    now i'm curious to read the discussion thread that got the group banned in the first place! - Loc
    Pat, I can appreciate your desire to stay independent until hearing all the facts but the facts we know are these: Flickr didn't disclose why they nuked the group, Hawk's high profile enough to address privately or publicly and instead of defending their actions with some form of public or private explanation people at Yahoo! are literally making a joke out of these and similar censorship complaints. I'm big on private property rights. Those servers belong to Yahoo! and they can do with them what they want. I'm sure whatever they found offensive I'd find equally offensive. I likely wouldn't be on Hawk's side, but for the fact that his is the only side because of their decision to conduct business secretly and rudely. This is a trendy way of doing business that annoys the daylights out of me. I'd love to say Hawk is just whining and should shut up, but he's making a public grievance known. It is the proper internet citizenry action. The way this has been handled is bad corporate policy. I think it's reasonable to side with Hawk because Hawk is taking the time to make a public case. Since they aren't answering, it makes me rethink anything I do with Flickr. - Jason Nunnelley
  • Thomas Hawk: I've resigned from admining the flickr DMU group. 1255410600|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Thomas Hawk
    I've resigned from admining the flickr DMU group.
    See-ming Lee 李思明 SML, Travis Koger, Mark and 4 other people liked this
    It seems to me that the latest warning from Heather suggests that the post that she's offended by needs to be censored. I have no interest in censoring posts on the internet so I resigned. Given a choice between censoring someone else or admining a group I choose to not admin a group. I rejoined the group so that I could still read the threads. Would it be possible for one of the other admins to set the group to public so that non-members can read it? - Thomas Hawk
    Do be careful TH. I am with you re: flickr dealing with his account instead of the forum, of course. But my argument still stands: I don't think that kind of behaviour is acceptable anywhere. Even on his own site. No one likes man hugs, do they? Wait, maybe I do... but only once in a while. Only once in a while. - Ryan MacLean
    I'm fine Ryan. I don't see him here. I've blocked him, you all can too. He comments on my blog every now and again. He'll lose interest and get tired of that too in time or I'll figure out a wordpress plug in to block him there too. His account on flickr's been deleted. - Thomas Hawk

Flickr is Fascist

http://saynotoflickr.blogspot.com

  • Which image did Flickr ban for being creepy? 1257244920|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

    Flickr is an American company with very American hang-ups about sexuality even though it houses a bunch of post-Woodstock, Obama-loving liberals. It came as no surprise to see Flickr glorifying blood, knives and murder in a fictious scenario as part of its best photos of the week

    By including this image in the Explore page, Flickr is accepting the morally-relative values this image presents to the viewer.

    How is this fair when Flickr slyly deleted thousands of candid images of men, because they were deemed voyeuristic? The speedo-clad man above was seemed perverted and creepy by Flickr. Nice to see Flickr has its values in check.....

    http://www.ipernity.com/doc/manwatch/6466007
  • I wonder if Flickr is politically neutral 1256965440|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Judge for yourself. Since when does this political image represent Arizona? Yet another example of Flickr's partisan politics. Not subtle...

  • Flickr won't remove offensive sexual imagery 1256433360|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Isn't it ironic that Flickr removes gay imagery en masse but is rather reluctant to remove an image of a false penis on a saint's hand?
  • Did Yahoo hack a user account critical of Flickr? 1254212640|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Something strange has happened (well not that strange considering yahoo has a history of collusing to oppress Chinese people). Last week one of the users who was deleted from Flickr for posting candid images of men in public has lost access to his Yahoo account, even though the account is still active under Yahoo profiles. He contacted Flickr to restore his account but they have refused to do a simple password reset and rather he phone their Customer Service office in America.

    This is where things get murky. The user in question did not change his password at all and was not inactive for four months (the expiry time for cancelling account). he also told me his keychain entry for his account was not showing the password but a number of jumbled letters. He contacted Yahoo again to ask if his account had been hacked, but they reiterated their advice to phone their expensive customer service line.

    It seems very odd that a user affiliated with an anti-flickr blog might have been compromsied in some way by Yahoo, doesn’t it?
  • Puritanical Flickr now offended by Woman's Feet? 1254034560|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Oh dear, yet another example of Flickr's typically American puritanical outrage. It has now deemed a woman's photostream unsafe, most likely because the photostream contains many images of her feet.....So when will they start banning macros of hands, eyelashes, eyebrows.......
    Only some fetishes are deemed perverted in Flickr's wonderland....

    Click if you dare...
  • Flickr puts it foot in it AGAIN 1254033900|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Just when you thought the all new and improved Flickr from Yahoo (with lovely logo) was mending its ways, an embarrassing hiccup happened YET again.

    This time Flickr from Yahoo removed a perfectly innocent basketball video for no logical reason.

    The debacle has already been reported on Thomas Hawks's site here



    Yet another example of Yahoo's incompetence and another good reason not to invest your dollars in the censorious Yahoo from Flickr.
  • Flickr scales back ‘account deletions’ 1253603700|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover In a recent experiment, not one photostream that violated Flickr’s TOS was deleted, so I can only deduce that Flickr is not acting like Mussolini any more.

    Seems all the bad publicity over the last 4 months has hurt Flickr’s reputation.

    Hopefully, my blog was part of the initiative to make Flickr a better web ciitizen…

    Hopefully, my work is done…..
  • Flickr's heterosexism- Case 1 1253432880|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Interestingly enough, an unmoderated image of a naked woman is okay for Flickr staff. Prior to reporting abuse on the image here, as a violation of Flickr's facile Terms of Service, the photo in question was deemed safe for everyone to view by the photostream's creator. It had even been viewed over 500 time but no one had prompted a complaint.

    Rather than deleting the entire stream in a heavy-handed manner ( a policy which Flickr reserves for shots of candid men in PUBLIC situations), Flickr merely gave the user a little telling off. Days after the complaint, the image was marked restricted - a small price to pay for violating Flickr's Terms of Service it seems....
  • Flickr’s creepy nepotism 1252636740|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Flickr is creepy and untrustworthy because it has no logical sense of morality or fair play. It is all too willing to destroy users it deems ‘creepy’ based on hearsay and prejudice (mostly homophobic). Acting like an over-enthusiastic teen hacker, Flickr has been over-zealous in deleting perfectly legal and inoffensive material but it seems even Flickr is becoming more cautious following the Obama Joker scandal which severely dented Flickr’s already tarnished name online.

    However the fact of the matter is simple – Flickr is not the friendly place it so often portrays itself as being. Conversely, it’s a place of moral superiority and nepotism. Users such as archidave, cubagallery, charlesfred are immune from Flickr’s censure. Each user has broken Flickr’s Terms of Service countless times but will never be deleted because they are immune from Flickr’s guidelines.

    For instance, Flickr has protected archidave (David Martyn) from advertising his building projects at his architectural practice GCP countless times, even though Mr Martyn has willingly promoted commercial interests in the name of his ‘photographic’ art. Mr Martyn has also posted candid imagery but has escaped censure on four occasions. So, the question remains, why is Flickr unwilling to punish such users? A law unto itself, Flickr, like the totalitarian, elitist regime that it is, is answerable to nobody but itself.
  • Flickr’s Blackshirts 1252480740|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Just Like Mussolini’s blackshirts, Flickr has a group of dedicated, “unpaid” helpers in its prohibitive Help forum, whose job is to arrogantly shout down users with genuine concerns. This motley crew of puritanical, self-satisfied Flickr defenders are unofficially deployed by lazy Flickr staff to do their own job…..

    Here’s a selection of Flickr’s blackshirts. The list is not comprehensive:

    Dr Keats

    iansand

    Walwyn

    ColleenM

    Patrick Costello

    The Searcher

    This sad bunch of fawning Flickr sycophants is silly enough to do Flickr’s work for free even though Yahoo posted better than expected revenue last quarter.

    Sadly they have no lives because most time is spent deriding people with geuine problems with their all-too-knowing “I told you so” moral superiority.

    All live in the vain hope of joining Yahpoo Flickr and kneeling at the thrown of Queen Heather Chimp (sorry Champ).
  • Flickr’s hypocrisy part 2 – when commercial use isn’t worthy of a deletion 1252471080|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Following two complaints about a violation of Flickr’s commercial use policy on CubaGallery’s photostream, Flickr has just given that user a little telling off. CubaGallery has been selling Lightroom Tutorials through Flickr for $4.00 a time but it seems that isn’t enough to delete the entire photostream. So it’s obvious that Cubagallery is protected by Flickr staff even though he has willingly violated the Terms of Service. However, countless others were not even given a warning about having their photos deleted . This is just another example of the blatant favouritism shown by Flick towards certain users, who can do no wrong in their squinty eyes.

    Even on his photostream, CubaGallery is content to lie about what he has done and even has the temerity to sell the tutorial through e-mail even after being warned by Flickr:

    Hi guys, I seem to have exceeded the bandwidth on downloads for this tutorial, plus a few other niggly things, so I'm going wait and get things sorted before I make it available again. Email me if you would like more info on getting a tutorial for this image.

    One rule……
  • Heather is (not) your friend..... 1252398780|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    If you think Heather Champ is the friendly face of Flickr, think again. The self-appointed puritan of Flickr’s new supposed anti-pervert policy (aka Communiations Director) is all too ready to brand gay men who take street photos of men ‘creepy’. This is the woman recently shown for what she is for her condescending attitude in a brilliant MSNBC expose by Helen A.S. Popkin on Flickr’s arrogance towards paying users.

    The brilliant article can be seen here:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32584064/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

    The diatribe against Champ's arrogance is spot-on:

    What’s more, Champ’s condescending tone is standard practice. I’ve read screen after screen of her rude, disrespectful posts, and am still unclear whether the director of community is attempting to be cute n’ conversational, but here’s the thing. Flickr is a business, not Champ’s personal Jonas Brothers chat room.

    Is it a coincidence that Champ’s influence at Flickr has led to a witch hunt against gay users who photograph perfectly legal subjects in public domains? It’s okay to take money from 'creepy' users ( even after reviewing their content as 'safe') and then banish them to perverts’ prison as long as it’s paying your wages?



    Flickr needs a revolution.....Not a Jonas Brothers fan with a deep-seated aversion to beautiful men.
  • Flickr accepts candid man shots as long as they are done by Charles Roffey 1252209540|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Flickr protects certain users at the expense of others. A series of tests has found that Charles Roffey's candid images of men are beyond censor, even though Flickr has censored many other similar shots. Another case of Flickr's bias towards cerain users and inconsistent policy over candid imagery. And this is not a case of makey uppey to coin Flickr Comms Head, Heather Champ's babytalk.
  • Flickr’s bias towards established users. 1251183180|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Even though Flickr has deleted countless photostreams of candid male shots, they have refused to consider at least 6 complaints against a similar photostream by CharlesFred.

    So, the issue is – why is Flickr ready to delete new users for being too creepy but leave its more established users free to post what they like? For those who have been deleted, it seems highly unjust that CharlesFred has been treated differently by Flickr’s inept staff, who would rather play with elastic bands than warn people about deletions….

    In Flickr’s world, there are rules and there are rules. You are exempt from rules if you have a big following on Flickr. Pity the upstart who upsets the apple cart.....

    Written by S Piotrek, submitted by MR K
  • Flickr’s Hidden Terms of Service 1250226540|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover For a Yahoo-owned, Microsoft-ally who has a shady record in China, it’s not a big surprise that Flickr’s Terms of Service doesn’t really warn paying users about Flickr’s real powers.

    We reserve the right to delete your account without warning or right to appeal after a single complaint is upheld.

    We reserve the right to silence any form of constructive criticism in photostreams and forums

    We employ an army of Flickr ideological police in the Flickr Help Forum to quash any probing questions. They are not paid by Yahoo to quell any dissension.

    We deem any dissension or subversion as ‘abusive’ and reserve the right to ban users from participating in the Help Forum.

    We object to street photography of male adults where the subject in question is too beautiful because it makes the us feel like hobbits.

    Please do not post shots of shirtless men. However, bikini shots are acceptable.

    We do not differentiate between ‘candid’ and ‘voyeur’ content because there is no distinction.

    We will not refund any deleted account because Yahoo has cash flow issues.

    We object to images of speedos because they are offensive to heterosexual tastes, yet we allow heterosexual hardporn links on photostreams.

    Yay!
  • Say No to Flickr 1250080800|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Flickr cannot be relied upon to host your images or guarantee their safety, even if you pay for the privilege of storing your photos on its servers.

    Flickr's account deletion policy does not:

    1) Warn users of an imminent deletion
    2) Give the user a fair right of appeal in the process

    In addition, Flickr is unable to retrieve deleted accounts from its servers. So, when a mistake is made, your photos just disappear into a black hole never to come back.

    So what's the solution?

    1. Always use an online backup photo-sharing site or better still leave Flickr in protest.

    The two best photo-sharing sites to Flickr are

    Ipernity
    http://www.ipernity.com/

    Zoomr
    http://www.zooomr.com/

    Both sites offer a more sophisticated take on photo-sharing than the dated interface of Flickr and they are aware of the rights of paying customers. They are also faster and more responsive that the Microsoft-sponsored Flickr (Apple users leave now!)
  • Flickr’s absurd sense of equality 1249966620|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Although Flickr urges any registered user to upgrade to pro status for only $24.95 a year, pro users would be forgiven for thinking that being pro means they have more rights than free members….Well, as highlighted in the without notice deletion of Rian Flynn’s enormously popular site, the reverse is true.

    Flickr treats pro and free members as equal even though pro members have paid to use the site. There is no difference between pro and free when an account is under review or made safe or even when an account is about to be deleted.

    Yahoo is the only major company of which I know online which is contemptuous of its paying members and treats them as if they were born yesterday. For example, a Flickr underling can just delete any pro account for good without telling the user who foolishly thinks Flickr can be trusted to host images safely. Yes, the Flickr Terms of Service states this, but it’s simply bad business practice in a global recession to treat paying customers with contempt and discourtesy.
  • Flickr's bandwidth problems and account deletions 1249958280|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover With Flickr's growing popularity, seemingly something had to give, and that something is user accounts. This year has seen Flickr actively deleting user accounts without notice for the most trivial reasons. It seems it's easy enough to delete accounts at will but not provide details.

    But surely Flickr is more than happy to delete more and more accounts simply because it cannot cope with its popularity as the photo-sharing site of the net? Server capacity is now a huge issue for the Yahoo-owned monopolist, so much so that is might be now trying to save costs by deleting accounts based on one complaint....

    Slowness of service has been a bugbear for Flickr in recent months and many users are reporting slowdown problems and countless hiccups everyday. Surely Flickr now has not employed the account deletion.....?
  • Flickr's Double Standards 1249742160|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
    Flickr has a cagey interpretation of its own flawed terms of service, in particular the clause which states rather oddly - 'Don't be Creepy', which is meant to be an open-ended definition of voyeur content, whatever that means to Flickr and its mindless puritanical acolytes.

    Flickr objects to candid shots of people that represent individuals in a sexual and voyeuristic way, but is happy to protect its more popular users from the rule, even when they break it.

    One example is the work of CharlesFred, an occasioal 'voyeur' candid hybrid shotmaker if is ever there was one, and his studies of the English male chav at the Derby. See the photo above, and consider how Mr Roffey escaped Flickr's censure on "voyeur" content.
  • Flickr bans user from challenging them on issue of 'voyeur content' 1249694520|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover A recent user whose account was deleted by Flickr for 'voyeur content' challenged Flickr to define voyeurism and candid imagery in the famous image above by Robert Doisineau. Not surprisingly, Flickr closed the account and banned the user from the help forum . Flickr still refuses to acknowledge what the difference is and is happy to delete candid, non-pornographic photos after just one complaint.
  • Flickr accidentally deletes prominent account but then tries to restore it 1249693920|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover Flickr admitted yesterday that it had deleted an account for the wrong reasons, and in a vain effort to save its own face, tried to restore the account. Only 20 images were restored on Rian Flynn's photostream.

    In the help forum, where the issue was raised, Flynn is happy that the account was partially restored and that Flickr, in an acknowledgment of their error, has given him a pro account until 2013. However, the fact remains, that Flickr has deleted thousands of accounts without warning this year, what makes Flynn's account different? Even though he had violated a minor clause in their Flickr's fascist Terms of Service, Flynn was given special treatment by staff. Flickr staff here, in an effort to save embarrassment and bad PR, has shown favouritism towards Flynn at the expense of a many others, whose concerns were ignored or ridiculed by biased staff.

    It seems some users are more equal than others on Flickr's fascist photo site.

How-to: what to do if Flickr flagged your stream as moderate / unsafe

Go to http://www.flickr.com/help/with/review/ and request your account to be reviewed by Flickr staff. Best of luck!

FAQs You might find helpful

Where do I set the safety level on my photos?

http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/#255

You can set a default safety level for photos you upload, on a page in Your Account. Whatever you set here will carry through to any/all upload methods you use.

To see what your photos are currently set at, go to the Organizr, click "More Options" near the bottom of the page, and filter by safe, moderate, and restricted.

You can also change whatever default you've set per photo or batch as you upload, and after your content is uploaded. There are batch editing tools available in the Organizr, and on the page where you see one of your photos, there's a "Flag your photo" link under the Additional Information heading where you can also change the safety level.

My account has been reviewed as safe. What does that mean?

http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/#252

Having a "safe" account means that you are good at moderating your own content. Awesome!

If your account is also "NIPSA", you may be one of the people caught up in the transition between the old system of moderation (public, pending, private accounts etc) and the new way (safety level/content type filters). It's fairly likely that if your account is NIPSA, it's because your account was NIPSA pre-transition, and that it may require a review by staff. You can request a review if you wish. It's fairly unlikely that staff would flag an entire account in the new system, given that you have more fine-grained control over the images in your account.

My account has been reviewed as moderate. hat does that mean?

http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/#253

Having a "moderate" flag on your account probably means that you are generally a good self-moderator, but occasionally things pop up in your photostream that may be in the wrong categories. Staff hear about this sort of thing because your fellow members can flag photos around the site if they feel that you have categorized things incorrectly, or they may even send a report to us that some of your content is offensive.

Remind yourself of our Community Guidelines to see what's OK and what's not on Flickr, and moderate your content accordingly.

To moderate your content:

Go to the Organizr

  1. Load all images (public, private, and friends/family) that need to be marked as Moderate.
  2. Click Permissions > Set safety filter to set them as Moderate.
  3. If you have images that should be marked as Restricted, repeat steps 2 & 3 for those as well.

Once you've done done that - and not before - you can request a review.

My account has been reviewed as unsafe. What doese that mean?

http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/#254

An "unsafe" account is something we think of as a loose cannon. It's not clear to us that you're moderating your own content at all, or if you are, you're not bearing in mind that there are other people using Flickr and that it's up to you to not be overtly offensive.

Triggers to flagging an entire account as "unsafe" include staff receiving an unusual number of complaints about your photos, or photos in your stream receiving an unusual number of votes, or if there are an unusual number of blocks against your account. All of these factors can be remedied by you: you simply need to moderate your content using the Safety Level & Content Type categories, so people don't unexpectedly stumble upon content which they may find offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

You should re-read our Community Guidelines to see what's OK and what's not on Flickr, and moderate your content accordingly.

To moderate your content:

Go to the Organizr

  1. Load all images (public, private, and friends/family) that need to be marked as Restricted.
  2. Click Permissions > Set safety filter to set them as Restricted.
  3. If you have images that should be marked as Moderate, repeat steps 2 & 3 for those as well.

Once you've done done that - and not before - you can request a review.

What are content filters?

http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/#258

Flickr is a global community made up of many different kinds of people. What's OK in your back yard may not be OK in theirs. Each one of us bears the responsibility of categorizing our own content within this landscape. So, we've introduced some filters to help everyone try to get along.

There are 2 types of filters that you need to use for your content.

1. Safety Level

  • Safe - Content suitable for a global, public audience
  • Moderate - If you're not sure whether your content is suitable for a global, public audience but you think that it doesn't need to be restricted per se, this category is for you
  • Restricted - This is content you probably wouldn't show to your mum, and definitely shouldn't be seen by kids

2. Content Type

  • Photos / Videos
  • Illustration/Art / Animation/CGI or other non-photographic images, or
  • Screencasts / Screenshots - what's a screenshot

When you upload content to Flickr, you need to choose where it "fits" in these 2 categories. For example, if you want to upload a screenshot of a web page, you can, but you need to flag it as a screenshot.

Putting your content into these categories means that everyone can then apply filters to searches they do to make sure they're seeing what they want to see.

Note: If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service (this means you won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off). If your Yahoo! ID is based in Germany you are not able to view restricted content due to your local Terms of Service.

Bear in mind that all content you upload is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service and our Community Guidelines.

Here are the main links you'll need to set yourself up.

Meta Search Alerts

Meta Search Alerts: Flickr Censorship
http://feeds.feedburner.com/meta-search-alerts-flickr-censorship

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  • ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement): another big step in Internet censorship On November 3 2009, a war started. A war so possibly huge that it may destroy the whole Internet itself. ACTA was announced. The ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is the first step towards Internet censorship. here is a brief summary of the act: That ISPs have to proactively police copyrigh ... 1259409420|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • 7 Personal Knowledge Base Tools By Senior Editor – Kris Smith ( @croncast) Let’s face it, everyday online in your activity you are giving away your knowledge. It is being captured by the cookies on your computer, the search engines that you use and your favorite social networking sites. They know more about you and what you online ... 1259343120|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Human Rights Advocates Call For Search Engine Boycott Over Censorship by SARAH NELSON, Contributing Writer Microsoft's Google-rivaling search engine, Bing, has been accused of propagating Chinese government censorship in their search results. The English results turn up just fine, but the second you search a politically sensitive subject, like the Tiananmen Massacre f ... 1259097960|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Brazilian graffitti Tate Modern illustrated by Os Gêmeos/photo krandlum, Flickr Brazil has a long love affair with graffiti, from the omnipresent pichações – that frequently depict the name of the gang that claims that territory – to acclaimed art. It all began in the 70’s, as a reaction to the censorship imposed by th ... 1259076060|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Digest for November 24th 10 events Stephen Just received beautiful crocodile leather belt & wallet for Teacher’s Day. Wow!!! Stephen No longer have time to blog. It’s Twitter & Flickr only for the foreseeable future. Stephen It’s a very good film. Stephen Pollution bad today. Was actually stinging my eyes. Stephen This will ... 1259006100|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • NCAC celebrates 35 years! On October 19 we celebrated our 35th Anniversary with a Night of Comedy with Judy Blume & Friends at City Winery. And by friends, we mean the following fearless writers, artists, actors, comedians, musicians and filmmakers who have fought back against censorship: Elna Baker, Richard Belzer, Alice Ev ... 1259004120|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Untitled My Tweets 20:56 My Flickr photosets: Black Hawk Choppers over... bit.ly/4vasYa # 23:46 A splendid time is still guaranteed for all… bit.ly/1HD9aN # 09:21 I am back to full speed internet after 3 1/2 weeks of being shaped. So pleased about this. #fb # 09:37 RT @gamers4croydon bit.ly/07foYZ4 Interview ... 1258797660|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. (Stefan Sagmeister) In the same day we signed an online petition for the end of the occupation in Tibet and we posted pictures of our holidays in the Himalayas on Flickr. In that same day chinese journalist Shi Tao was convicted to 10 years in prison for releasing state secrets. Shi Tao released a memo from the Chinese ... 1258714620|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Untitled My Tweets 20:12 Brunswick St, Valley closed between Ann and McLennan - to get onto Brunswick from Ann turn left 1 block south of Ann #bnetraffic # 03:52 Modern Warfare 2 has not made me a terrorist bit.ly/1el1Xy # 08:50 My Flickr photosets: New Matilda Censorship Forum... bit.ly/NiohQ # 08:50 My Fli ... 1258624860|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Hey Flickr ... why so censorious? - Technotica- msnbc.com Photo District News, wondering who might have issued the take-down notice, contacted all invested parties: Time Inc., D.C. Comics, and the photographer of Time’s Obama cover. The consensus: “Wasn’t us.” If the takedown notice was sent by a party with no legal investment to make such a request, it seems Flickr did not do its due diligence before removing the image. If this is the case, how many other images have been removed due to bogus requests? An inquiry into more specifics on this matter was then greeted by a pointedly generic statement on copyright issues, stating in part, “Flickr respects the copyright laws in the 21 countries in which we operate.” 1256193957|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Heads up people

    Markus..@gl1 posted a photo:

    Heads up people

    one of my contacts got this e-mail this morning from Flickr: this is the 3rd one I know of who has had a problem, with photos they have taken of people in the street

    Hello,

    "There's still alot of voyeur content in your photostream that needs to be deleted.
    At present, it's very likely that we will need to deactivate your Flickr account.

    -Terrence"

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  • flickr gives it to me again

    violet.blue posted a photo:

    flickr gives it to me again

    thanks to the trolls that haunt and "report" me on any website they can.

    www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2007/12/flickr_censors_m...

    www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2007/12/oh_flickr_no.html

    I'm fine to make my photostream "moderate" if they'd just tell me what I did wrong and let me make my ordinary photos "safe". right now, only outsiders see photos of me *in my panties*. Flickr also needs to face the fact that I'm going to be reported no matter what I do. not because I'm willfully being "bad" or don't understand their (admittedly vague and confusing) TOU -- in fact, I'm extra careful and restrictive because I *want* to keep my account. no, I'll consistently be reported because I'm a woman, and a sex writer with a hateful neocon following that attack me in the SF Gate comments constantly (and formerly on my now-locked Wikpedia page), and this year I've collected two (known) troll/stalkers who make a regular habit of attacking me online.

    guidance and care would be nice, not punitive measures.

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  • Adios Flickr!

    Christopher W. Moriarty posted a photo:

    Adios Flickr!

    My pro account on Flickr expires on October 11th. I don't think I'll be renewing for reasons such as cost and the recent censorship that's been going on. I think I'm going to roll-my-own solution. Keep track of me and my work at siokaos.org

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  • Flickr Think Flickr Think

    firoze shakir photographerno1 posted a photo:

    Flickr Think Flickr Think


    photo courtesy
    www.oknation.net/blog/home/blog_data/458/458/images/Censo...


    flickr think flickr think
    for god sake wake up
    from your rip van winkle like sleep
    into a morass of just
    making money
    cybernetic power don’t sink
    between a creative artist
    and your administration
    reforms
    create a two hand clapping link
    don’t cause a ruckus of a stink
    now don’t look the other way
    nelsons eye at you tube
    orkut facebook like don’t wink
    me and others like me think
    more than money
    it is the soul and the heart
    the heartbeat of a photographer
    here the soundless pain
    in a clink

    What I am today as a photographer and photo blogger I owe to El Gekko ,
    A white man who never ever made me feel brown or black , a great difference there is among photographers and poets who carry hate ..Wordsmiths of hate .

    This poem is my solidarity with a human being with a heart of gold.

    Message from the finest photographer at Flickr El Gekko
    Lost in a hudge playground!
    That's me in the Web... ;)

    My dear friends... I'll stay around, even if not as often as before.
    The thing is that Flickr is just using our work to promote itself, to gain more power, and then, more money, with our work, and now that I understood that, I'm not interested much.

    A board that is administrated by some lines of code, lines of code that will -then- decide that this image, or this one, or this other again, is good enough to be put in front page...

    A board that uses censorship if some pubic hair is shown...

    A board like that as no appeal to me, anymore.

    There are many other boards around, that have a much better, and nicer, and respectfull approach toward "artists".

    What has some appeal to me, though, are people like you, that I met around, shared with, laughed with.
    This is why I'll keep an eye around, and post, once in a while, an image here, a comment there, a wink over here!

    But I have the intention to regain full power on what I want to show, and that will be through my own website. I don't need no robot to tell me what to show, what to promote, what to do with *MY* work.

    Thanks very much for your encouragements, you all around that found some interest into my work, for a year now.
    I found a lot of inspiration into your various work(s), inspiration that led me toward new creative pathes and imaginative use of imagery. This I don't want to lose.
    This I wanted to thank you for, too.

    www.flickr.com/photos/elgeko/1277158352/

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  • No Flickr Censoring

    hefe_bia posted a photo:

    No Flickr Censoring

    Original posted by eelend.

    Füge das Bild zu deinen Favoriten hinzu und poste es!

    In English:
    If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off.
    In other words that means, that german users can not access photos on flickr that are not flaged "safe" ... only flowers and landscapes for the germans ...

    We will not let this happen! Copy and upload this picture to your account - show flickr who we are!

    En Castellano:
    Si tu ID de Yahoo está localizada en Singapur, Alemania, Hong Kong o Corea sólo podrás ver ‘contenido seguro’ (safe search) basado en las condiciones de servicio locales. O sea que no puedes desconectar el filtro Safe Search.
    En otras palabras, eso significa que los usuarios alemanes no pueden acceder a las fotos de Flickr a las que no se haya añadido la ‘bandera’ (flag) de ‘segura’... Sólo flores y paisajes para los alemanes.
    ¡No permitamos que suceda esto! Copia y sube esta imagen a tu cuenta. Haz saber a Flickr quienes somos.

    Deutch:
    Lade dieses Bild runter und poste es in deinem Account! Lass uns das Bild überall auf flickr verteilen und es in 'Interestingness' heben!! So geht es nicht!
    Original Version: farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/543864623_7aadef1e69_o.jpg

    flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!
    Seit gestern werden für deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Moeglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe Unverschämtheit und Frechheit von flickr!
    Füge das Bild zu deinen Favoriten hinzu und poste es!

    Portugues:
    Se a tua conta yahoo e de Singapura, Hong Kong, Koreia e Alemanha.. vc so podera ver fotos comportadas..rs, digo censuradas.. Todas as outras nao serao acessiveis , apenas flores abelhas e anjinhos.. bem-vindos a mais um absurdo Flickr..kkkkkkk
    Junte-se a nos, proteste..porque o proximo pode ser vc, seu pais, sua conta, ou o diabo a quatro...

    italiano:
    se il tuo ID yahoo è localizzato a Singapore, in Germania oppure ad Hong Kong o in Korea potrai vedere solo foto dal contenuto che è in accordo con il locale

    accordo dei termini di servizio per cui gli utenti flickr di quelle nazioni non potranno cambiare da SafeSearch on in SafeSearch off.
    In altre parole ciò significa che gli utenti tedeschi e delle altre nazioni citate non potranno accedere a foto su flickr che non sono flaggate "safe" e quindi solo fiori e paesaggi per i tedeschi.

    Copia e uploada quest' immagine sul tuo account - mostra a flickr chi siamo!

    中文:
    如果你的Yahoo! 帳號是在新加坡、香港、德國或韓國所申請的，
    那你只能瀏覽依當地規定視為『安全』的內容，且無法將此功能關閉。

    換句話說，德國的使用者無法瀏覽被標記為『不安全』的照片。德國人上網只能看花看風景!
    我們決不容許這樣的事情發生! 請轉貼這張圖片到你自己的帳號上。告訴Flickr，我們是誰!

    Ελληνικά:
    Εάν η ταυτότητά σας (το Yahoo! ID) βρίσκεται στην Σιγκαπούρη, Γερμανία, Κορέα ή Χόνκ-Κόνγκ μπορείτε να βλέπετε το "ασφαλές" περιεχόμενο τού Flickr, με βάση τους τοπικούς όρους παροχής υπηρεσιών, πράγμα που σημαίνει πως δε μπορείτε να αναζητήσετε και να δείτε φωτογραφίες που δεν έχουν χαρακτηριστεί "ασφαλείς" !!! Γιά ένα μεγάλο μέρος πελατών τού Flickr (μεταξύ άλλων και τών Γερμανών συνευρωπαίων μας) δηλαδή επιτρέπονται μόνο πανέμορφα λουλουδάκια και ωραία τοπία... Σε λίγο ίσως έρθει η δική μας σειρά!
    Αυτό δε θα τους περάσει! Αντιγράψτε και ανεβάστε αυτήν την φωτογραφία στη σελίδα σας - δέιξτε στο Flickr ποιοί είμαστε!



    Lade dieses Bild runter und poste es in deinem Account! Lass uns das Bild überall auf flickr verteilen und es in 'Interestingness' heben!! So geht es nicht!
    Original Version: farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/543864623_7aadef1e69_o.jpg

    Weitere Infos:
    - www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91085
    - www.flickr.com/groups/404938@N23/discuss/72157600347681500/
    - www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/42597/

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  • NICHT MIT UNS! AGAINST CENSORSHIP!

    so-und-so posted a photo:

    NICHT MIT UNS! AGAINST CENSORSHIP!

    flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!
    Seit gestern werden für deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Moeglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe Unverschämtheit und Frechheit von flickr!

    Lade dieses Bild runter und poste es in deinem Account! Lass uns das Bild überall auf flickr verteilen und es in 'Interestingness' heben!! So geht es nicht!
    Original Version: farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/543864623_7aadef1e69_o.jpg
    Für größte Protestwirkung Faven, selbst uploaden, hier posten und faves bekommen

    Weitere Infos:
    - www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91085
    - www.flickr.com/groups/404938@N23/discuss/72157600347681500/
    - www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/42597/

    Note: If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off.

    1182195657|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • flickr as we see it

    schmerles posted a photo:

    flickr as we see it

    Aufgenommen in (Hier weitere Fotos ansehen)
    Please add notes over my notes, so I can remove them.

    ************************************************************
    Der Protest gegen das selbstherrliche Auftreten von flickr und yahoo ist in dieser Woche sehr erfolgreich verlaufen. Wenn die Protestaktivitäten jetzt nachlassen würden, wäre das ein völlig falsches Signal.
    Vorschlag:
    Nachdem sich die zunehmend phantasievollen und sehr kreativen Protestbilder einen festen Platz in flickrs werbewirksamen Aushängeschild Explore / Interestingness erobern konnten, könnte nun ein schlichtes, monochromes Grau folgen. Es wird nochmals stundenlanges faven, notes schreiben und kommentare verfassen erfordern, aber alleine die Vorstellung, flickr den Content für eine Weile zu entziehen, der die Seite zu dem gemacht hat was sie ist, sollte eine neue Runde wert sein......

    Bitte übersetzen! Und teilnehmen!
    Please translate! And participate!
    **********************************************

    The protest against flickrs and yahoos' narcistic behaviour during this past week, has gone a very successful way.
    If the protest activities would fade by now, it would be amassive rongly taken signal.

    Proposal:
    After the accordingly phantastic and very creative Protest- pics were able to claim a safe playe in flickrs promotionally affective "Explore/ Interestingness" feature- sign, now there could just follow a mellow, monocrome grey.
    It will - once again- take hours of faving, tagging, writing notes and comments-
    but just the imagination of taking the content off flickr for a while, which made the Site to all it is right now, should be worth a second round......

    Please translate
    & participate!

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  • flickr-censorship

    gholzer posted a photo:

    flickr-censorship

    Das ist vermutlich schon das meist gesehene Foto auf Flickr überhaupt. Es ist ein Zeichen gegen Zensur bei Flickr.

    Auf der einen Seite gibt man Nazis mit einer eigenen Hitler-Gruppe eine Plattform und dann wird manchen (nicht allen) Nutzern ein Inhalts-Filter vorgeknallt, den man nicht abschalten kann ...

    This has got to stop!

    Mehr Infos in dieser Gruppe

    Hier mein Blog-Eintrag: www.georgholzer.at/blog/2007/06/17/beispiel-flickr-wie-we...

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  • Flickr goes censured

    saschaaa posted a photo:

    Flickr goes censured

    Against censorship!

    Flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!
    Seit vorgestern werden für deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Möglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe Unverschämtheit und Frechheit von Flickr!

    Wer noch mehr wissen wil / Want to know morel!!


    English
    If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off. In other words that means, that German users can not access photos on flickr that are not flagged "safe" ... only flowers and landscapes for the germans ... We will not let this happen! Copy and upload this picture to your account - show flickr who we are!

    Francais
    Si votre compte Yahoo! est basé à Singapour, à Hong Kong, en Corée ou en Allemagne, vous ne pourrez voir que les photos qui n'ont pas été marquées comme ayant un contenu qui peut choquer. Toutes les autres ne vous seront pas accessibles. Vous serez donc condamnés à ne voir que des paysages et des fleurs. Il ne faut pas laisser faire ça. Envoyez cette photo sur votre compte pour montrer à Flickr que nous savons nous mobiliser contre la censure !

    Español
    Si tu Yahoo! ID está basada en Singapor, Alemania, Hong Kong o Corea sólamente verás contenido llamado seguro basándose en nuestros términos de servicio locales y no podrás deshabilitar el modo de búsqueda segura... En otras palabras esto significa, que usuarios alemanes p.ej. ya no podrán acceder a fotos en flickr que hayan sido "flagged", es decir marcadas como no seguras y para todo público... solamente flores y paisajes para los alemanes... No permitiremos que ésto suceda! Copia y carga esta foto a tu cuenta de yahoo por favor para mostrar a flickr quienes somos!

    1181919757|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Dietro l'angolo~My own bamboo jungle

    FotoCollasso&Goodenough posted a photo:

    Dietro l'angolo~My own bamboo jungle

    E' incredibile che questa fogna di paesino in cui vivo da una vita trovi ancora il modo di stupirmi. Oggi ho scoperto questa cosa, proprio al centro del pesello, in un buco nel muro di una specie di parco pubblico, ovviamente abbandonato. Devo dire che questa foto priva di tutto mi piace molto. Certo: se ci fosse stata una capoccia che spuntava da qualche parte modello 'cucù' sarebbe stata tutta un'altra cosa. Ma tant'é.

    1181914169|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Against Censorship

    Dominik Truschner posted a photo:

    Against Censorship

    Against censorship!Flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!
    Seit vorgestern werden für deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Möglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe Unverschämtheit und Frechheit von Flickr!

    English
    If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off. In other words that means, that German users can not access photos on flickr that are not flagged "safe" ... only flowers and landscapes for the germans ... We will not let this happen! Copy and upload this picture to your account - show flickr who we are!

    Francais
    Si votre compte Yahoo! est basé à Singapour, à Hong Kong, en Corée ou en Allemagne, vous ne pourrez voir que les photos qui n'ont pas été marquées comme ayant un contenu qui peut choquer. Toutes les autres ne vous seront pas accessibles. Vous serez donc condamnés à ne voir que des paysages et des fleurs. Il ne faut pas laisser faire ça. Envoyez cette photo sur votre compte pour montrer à Flickr que nous savons nous mobiliser contre la censure !

    Español
    Si tu Yahoo! ID está basada en Singapor, Alemania, Hong Kong o Corea sólamente verás contenido llamado seguro basándose en nuestros términos de servicio locales y no podrás deshabilitar el modo de búsqueda segura... En otras palabras esto significa, que usuarios alemanes p.ej. ya no podrán acceder a fotos en flickr que hayan sido "flagged", es decir marcadas como no seguras y para todo público... solamente flores y paisajes para los alemanes... No permitiremos que ésto suceda! Copia y carga esta foto a tu cuenta de yahoo por favor para mostrar a flickr quienes somos!

    1181912210|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
  • Against censorship!

    Michaeeel posted a photo:

    Against censorship!

    Flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!
    Seit vorgestern werden für deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Möglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe Unverschämtheit und Frechheit von Flickr!

    English
    If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off. In other words that means, that German users can not access photos on flickr that are not flagged "safe" ... only flowers and landscapes for the germans ... We will not let this happen! Copy and upload this picture to your account - show flickr who we are!

    Francais
    Si votre compte Yahoo! est basé à Singapour, à Hong Kong, en Corée ou en Allemagne, vous ne pourrez voir que les photos qui n'ont pas été marquées comme ayant un contenu qui peut choquer. Toutes les autres ne vous seront pas accessibles. Vous serez donc condamnés à ne voir que des paysages et des fleurs. Il ne faut pas laisser faire ça. Envoyez cette photo sur votre compte pour montrer à Flickr que nous savons nous mobiliser contre la censure !

    Español
    Si tu Yahoo! ID está basada en Singapor, Alemania, Hong Kong o Corea sólamente verás contenido llamado seguro basándose en nuestros términos de servicio locales y no podrás deshabilitar el modo de búsqueda segura... En otras palabras esto significa, que usuarios alemanes p.ej. ya no podrán acceder a fotos en flickr que hayan sido "flagged", es decir marcadas como no seguras y para todo público... solamente flores y paisajes para los alemanes... No permitiremos que ésto suceda! Copia y carga esta foto a tu cuenta de yahoo por favor para mostrar a flickr quienes somos!

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