LAist: Flickr's censorship system has gone over the top

guest

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:35:30 -0800

they censored me, too. i was informed of having been reviewed as "safe," but apparently i embarrassed staff member Michelle of flickr when i posted all the details to her thoughtless, unwarned and unwarranted deletion of one of my photos and then she deleted my whole damned account. Please read the details at my blog: http://dysamoria.com/blog/index.html

peter

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:31:39 -0800

Hey come on ... it is not Germany. There are plenty of German porn sites that people can legally enter using a fairly simply age verification process. It is not about Germany. It's about Yahoo! censoring German photos for no obvious reason.

lido_6006

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:10:48 -0800

The Germans are ok. It's just Yahoo and flickr acting blatantly unprofessional. All they've done won't help them to be "safe" from the German laws, they are still violating the most elementary rules ("Impressumspflicht") that have been an obligation for years in Germany, not to speak of banning Nazi propaganda (the Germans have good reasons for that). But imposing US bible belt content filtering on Germany does really miss the real point. 90% of the illegal content is not affected by the filters, 90% of the filtered content is not illegal in Germany. Can't you expect a CEO to get some professional advice before deciding on stupid measures? That's the question.

Kinky Puddin'

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:00:40 -0800

I just want flickr to take the responsibility and be a little more forthright. It is not like they were put into a position where they had no choice. Their legal department must have viewed the launch of global flickr as a nifty way to deal with "the German problem." There were ways to deal with this -- or they could have given a heads up to their German users before the roll out. I just hate their "lil' ol' us just had no choice. Sowry." stance. Puke in their shoes.

cmgrowl

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:40:44 -0800

I'm offended by that fuzzy ball.

callie

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:30:36 -0800

Mal - That picture of Zumi's response is outstanding!

Anon! a Moose

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:49:20 -0800

for a country that favors speedos on beaches this is a surprise.

bbd

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:29:04 -0800

it seems Flickr has made some spectacular blunders of late. They may be working feverishly behind the scenes to fix their stupid faux pas, and it's reasonable to conclude that they can't talk about what they're trying to do until they can give some concrete good news, but hell, why even get into this situation in the first place. If the issue was capitulating to the German government demands that it restrict content, they should have just said "No!" to begin with. Why not get the German members on board to begin with and enlist their support? Ever since Yahoo has taken over Flickr, the decisions made and the service has really sucked, big time.