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Censorship! The Community fights back!

Against censorship!

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”.

The Mountain Star* is 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…

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  1. From Dr. med. Christian Renner - My tiny Place on the Net on 01 Jul 2007 at 8:33 pm

    Kramer auto Pingback[…] Photography - Used to do a lot of photographing in my adolescent years (with my Canon A1 camera), but in the last years I have only taken the occasional birthday photo. In July 2004 I got a Sony Cyberview DSC P 120 digital camera, though, which I carry around with me all the time. And by now (summer 2007) there is also a Fuji F11 point-and-shoot camera, a used Canon Powershot G6 and another Powershot G6 which has been converted for infrared photography. My photos are not yet really worth publishing, though, but taking them is fun and if you are really and truely interested you can find them some of them on  my Flickr-page. As of summer 2007 - I told you I am getting a bit overworried by all those attacks on personal freedom all over the physical and virtual world - I am deeply disappointed with the Flickr photocommunity, though: Flickr/Yahoo - among other things - installed a filter which prevents users from Germany and other countries from access to what they regard as x-rated photos on their website. While have never been interested in x-rated content / pornography I strongly feel that noone should tell me what contents I may watch and what contents I may not look at - not a government, nor Flickr/Yahoo - which is why I am no longer maintaining my flickr account and do not upload any new photos (a pity, for I had loved the flickr community quite a lot). As often I am the one being overpersistent and uncompromising  in my attitude to this matter: loads of people from the flickr community protested and threatened to withdraw and very very few in the end really left or are leaving - I was a little bit outmaneuvered by my own propaganda, it seems… not too uncharacteristical for me. […]

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