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Saturday, 23. June 2007, 03:38:40
As the protest on censorship at Flickr continues (of which you may or may not be aware)...
For the time being I plan on staying. However I have for some time been hosting many of my photographs on my own site, just in case. I have found nothing more user friendly than Flickr, and nothing less customer friendly than Flickr. I resent being the last to know about censorship, about PayPal not being available any more. We should have been told by Flickr, up front before anything changed. I expect that courtesy from people I do business with. I am staying for the community, I am staying because as a European living outide Europe this is one of the few places I do not feel so much like a fish out of water. I like seeing current photos of my homeland, and all the other places I have at one time or another considered home.
I have little to no interest in porn one way or another, but I am concerned that art with the nude form is going to be unjustly targeted as a subject for censorship. I worry that the documentary photos could be sanitised to portray a favourable view of "whatever current Oligarchy standards".
I have little to no interest in porn one way or another, but I am concerned that art with the nude form is going to be unjustly targeted as a subject for censorship. I worry that the documentary photos could be sanitised to portray a favourable view of "whatever current Oligarchy standards".
As the protest on censorship at Flickr continues (of which you may or may not be aware)... For the time being I plan on staying. However I have for some time been hosting many of my photographs on my own site, just in case. I have found nothing more user friendly than Flickr, and nothing less customer friendly than Flickr. I resent being the last to know about censorship, about PayPal not being available any more. We should have been told by Flickr, up front before anything changed. I expect that courtesy from people I do business with. I am staying for the community, I am staying because as a European living outide Europe this is one of the few places I do not feel so much like a fish out of water. I like seeing current photos of my homeland, and all the other places I have at one time or another considered home.
I have little to no interest in porn one way or another, but I am concerned that art with the nude form is going to be unjustly targeted as a subject for censorship. I worry that the documentary photos could be sanitised to portray a favourable view of "whatever current Oligarchy standards".
Art and beauty raise up our view of the world, everyone needs access to it and the web and Flicr can do that. Art is available in abundance to anyone with access to the web. Art from the most unexpected places, truth and documentary from every nook and cranny of this planet. I implore the powers at Flickr to consider just for a moment the full impact this hubbub will have on the quality of the Flickr experience worldwide.
find it important that we can show photos of documentary and artistic importance unedited, and unsanitised, regardless of nipples and bloodshed, truth needs to be seen as well as heard and photos are incredibly powerful. Would Vietnam have ended when it did without the powerful images in Life Magazine? Let's not discourage solid photojournalism, even from the amateur, from being seen and safely stored.
I want my photos safe, having them at Flickr, keeps them from being destroyed in fire or sudden acts of the universe, but I want it to be safe there from being tossed out because suddenly and without warning the powers that be have decided on another shift in policy and all photos showing known politicians must be tossed (or whatever category can be substituted here). I want some assurance of prior notice of any further changes, good or bad, from Flickr and/or Yahoo, Frankly I feel much more inclined to throw my energies into remaining with and fighting with this community, I haven't the energies to make vast changes every time someone makes and uncomfortable ruling.
I have double stored my images on my own site "just in case. I think everyone should do so, preferably on an American or Dutch server, freedom mostly guaranteed. Flickr is where I meet my fellow artists, my favourite on line community, and I am hoping not too many will jump ship, because I would miss you. Meantime I will cheerfully protest because silence would simply be wrong until change has been achieved, and desertion will not achieve change in the rules, just something easy for management to shrug off.
To peek at my most recent stuff: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aletteke/sets/72157600438501826/ or the 50 or so highest ranked:http://www.flickr.com/photos/aletteke/sets/72157600412668055/
Other Yahoo Critics: http://www.yahoo-watch.org/ - http://www.wild-google-chase.org/
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