Life is grand

Another sad day has come to pass in the Flickr community. Now users in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong and Korea are having their Flickr experience censored. Any image marked as unsafe is no longer displayed to users from these countries.

Not to be a fan boy but I can’t fully blame Flickr. This is the cost of being popular and of being part of a larger corporate. They chose this route and while many of us have paid to use Flickr there were never terms that said “We shall never censor.” In fact from the very beginning Flickr has had censorship, the main difference now being that where before the individual could choose to view “unsafe” photos now the company is deciding for the user. So we will rant and rave a bit but only because we are sad of our changing, for the worse, community.

The difference between this change and the Yahoo! Login change is that now I see people being forced to use an alternative service. Many of my contacts on Flickr are considered “unsafe.” Flickr is their outlet, where they express themselves and they can no longer do it as they see fit.

A shame. So things change though and so shall we, moving onto new pastures.

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