Comments on: Protest around Flickr “censorship” increases http://crueltobekind.org/protest-around-flickr-censorship-increases-406 Tue, 15 May 2012 09:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: net_efekt http://crueltobekind.org/protest-around-flickr-censorship-increases-406#comment-561 net_efekt Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:41:00 +0000 http://crueltobekind.org/protest-around-flickr-censorship-increases-406#comment-561 If I am a German using a yahoo.com (US) id, then the new filter doesn't apply to me. So why do they apply for those who are registered with yahoo.de (Germany)? We're all Germans and the same law applies to us, so, if jail were a real threat, then surely the service would have been sued ages ago. It seems that to avoid the new filter a lot of people have to pay twice - ie. to create a new registration via the US site. This certainly doesn't help. Furthermore, why has it taken flickr such a long time to answer the protesters? It took days for the first (very weak) reply, and only now some clearer responses. Why not be a champion of the people (and out freedom), rather than a slave to Governments? It hardly gives me hope that services such as flickr won’t one day be used by Governments to keep a tab on us… Big Brother 2.0? If I am a German using a yahoo.com (US) id, then the new filter doesn’t apply to me. So why do they apply for those who are registered with yahoo.de (Germany)? We’re all Germans and the same law applies to us, so, if jail were a real threat, then surely the service would have been sued ages ago.

It seems that to avoid the new filter a lot of people have to pay twice – ie. to create a new registration via the US site. This certainly doesn’t help.

Furthermore, why has it taken flickr such a long time to answer the protesters? It took days for the first (very weak) reply, and only now some clearer responses.

Why not be a champion of the people (and out freedom), rather than a slave to Governments? It hardly gives me hope that services such as flickr won’t one day be used by Governments to keep a tab on us… Big Brother 2.0?

]]> By: greynine http://crueltobekind.org/protest-around-flickr-censorship-increases-406#comment-560 greynine Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:15:00 +0000 http://crueltobekind.org/protest-around-flickr-censorship-increases-406#comment-560 hm. this kind invitation there "You! Join My Community" made me interested in who's standing behind your community. and guess what I'v found on the privacy page (http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/privacy/) - Yahoo! seems to recently have bought that community as well. I'm surely not going to make the same mistake twice. hm. this kind invitation there “You! Join My Community” made me interested in who’s standing behind your community. and guess what I’v found on the privacy page (http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/privacy/) – Yahoo! seems to recently have bought that community as well.
I’m surely not going to make the same mistake twice.

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