http://www.west-of-house.net/mountain/2007/06/13/censorship-on-flickr-the-community-fights-back/ A Reaganaut`s View of the World and Present Events Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:10:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 http://www.west-of-house.net/mountain/2007/06/13/censorship-on-flickr-the-community-fights-back/#comment-65 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:33:10 +0000 http://www.west-of-house.net/mountain/2007/06/13/censorship-on-flickr-the-community-fights-back/#comment-65 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] 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. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> […] 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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