Hillside Meditations

For some hours now this photo and some others with similar messages have been spreading across the Flickr photocommunity. People are fighting back!
Without a reason I know about the photocommunity www.flickr.com (owned by Yahoo!) started a censorship measure against users in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore:
“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, singaporian, korean and Honkong users can not access photos on flickr that are not flagged “safe”.

Of course I am vehemently against any kind of censorship by anyone anywhere. Let us support the fight of the Flickr-community! Please blog about this incident and the flickr-users fight against this blatant case of censorship and spread the word!

When any government . . . undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked.

Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On…

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” –Abraham Lincoln, from the April 6, 1859 Letter to Henry Pierce

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Star Trek TNG S04E21

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