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Posted by: Fabienne 2 years agoFrom Flickr: "SafeSearch is a feature that allows you to control what turns up in your searches on Flickr, and it's on for everyone by default. Note: If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won't be able to turn SafeSearch off." A full revolt is going on at Flickr over this censorship.
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Multichannel audio specialist and futurist Fabienne Serriere is a Franco-American hardware, software and embedded interaction designer. She believes in a gorgeous technologically morphable future. Her ...
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mossback
June 14, 2007, 8:45 a.m.All entities, whether governments, companies, organizations, poltical parties, or whatever instinctively move towards censorship. This is just one more example of a company trying to "read the tea leaves" that local laws might require and then somehow "beat them to the punch" to avoid legal problems. Germany has some weird laws regarding what you can and can't read about, think about, or whatever based on their experiences in the 1930s and 40s. I suspect that the outcry will lead to some sort of court ruling to help clarify it. It is interesting that you can look at all the porn you want, but you can't go to a site that is openly Anti-homosexual. I travel to Germany a great deal and all ISP providers in Germany have certain sites or types of sites blocked by law. I am proud of the US for its laws that allow us to even discuss this openly. You can't discuss censorship in some European countries, or should I say it would be unwise to do so if your name is attached.
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mossback
June 14, 2007, 9:49 a.m.Thanks for the insight Fabienne! I would hate to see Yahoo cave in to censorship the way Google did in China. The pressure on the freedom of the Internet is growing every day. I remember one my Tech team back in 1995 when we were doing our first corporate website tell me that "today the Net is as free as it is ever going to get, it will only go down from here." He was so correct!
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Macondo
June 14, 2007, 10:35 a.m.Censorship scares.
It was not clear to me how to avoid such censorship.
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Tolchock
June 14, 2007, 7:26 p.m.Fabienne, do you know if there are similar protests from Singapore, HK and Korea users?
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HMMace
June 15, 2007, 4:04 a.m.Do you think the Japs tell thier kids about the Japanese rape of Nanking?? Or how they slaughtered the Koreans??..Isn't that "censership?? How they kept our soldiers in 2 foot square boxes, not long enough to straighten thier legs?? whats changd in thepast 100 years?? Its hell to be so old with such a good memory..
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