Thu 14 Jun 2007
Flickr the photo sharing site has whipped up a storm of protest from its users by censoring photos posted by its users. Based on the location of their Yahoo! ID, users in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong and Korea are only able to view “safe content”, even if they have posted the material themselves. This heavy handed approach has done much to upset large numbers of Flickr members. Censorship is by its very nature a bad thing and should be opposed by all thinking people. The advent of the Internet has given ordinary people a voice which can be heard the world over, any attempt to stifle that freedom of expression should be resisted, for the good of us all.
June 16th, 2007 at 0:12
Up date, in a response to the large number of protest images being posted to Flickr, Yahoo/Flickr has taken to censoring then!