I've neglected this blog for a little too long. This topic however demands that I write something. The image is from one of my good contacts - the lovely Mo. As a Flickr user in Germany she finds herself subject to unanounced "censorship" by Flickr!! Basically they have no option to access materials that someone else has deemed (often incorrectly) as inappropriate. Flickr don't like the word "censorship" to be associated with them (see here)- but what they have done amounts to the same thing. And the way they have done it is amazing. It's sad to see a once very customer focused organisation be slowly erroded and made another grey Internet offering but what I guess are Yahoo's lawyers and Accountants.
I feel sorry for the old Flickr hands who worked so hard to make Flickr a special place on the Internet - it must be sad to see the anger around this and I'm sure a few must be thinking "would this have happened if Google bought Flickr and not Yahoo?" Personally I think not!!
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