Unfortunately, this is what is happening to the Flickr.com community in Iran and in the United Arab Emirates, where, a few weeks ago — and for the third time — the Internet service provider, Etisalat, decided to ban access to Flickr after the UAE Flickr community fought so hard to get it back.
Let's not single out Iran for censorship. The UAE sent forces to "liberate" Kuwait during the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War so this means there are at least two enemies of the late Saddam Hussein who censor Flickr. I wonder if this will be a trend. posted by three blind mice at 7:49 AM on June 18, 2007
Yep, that was a really weird thing to find chunking; I've been saved by the Firefox addon these fine Iranian users created, so my thanks to them. And a big fuck you to the censors. posted by Abiezer at 8:58 AM on June 18, 2007
Interestingly, flickr is aperantly self censoring in certan parts of the world, including singapore, germany and some other places. "Save search" (which blocks all pornographic pictures, regardless of whether you are searching or browsing) is turned on in those places, and can't be disabled.
A bunch of flickr pr0n makers are putting up these 'protest' pictures. posted by delmoi at 9:32 AM on June 18, 2007
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Unfortunately, this is what is happening to the Flickr.com community in Iran and in the United Arab Emirates, where, a few weeks ago — and for the third time — the Internet service provider, Etisalat, decided to ban access to Flickr after the UAE Flickr community fought so hard to get it back.
Let's not single out Iran for censorship. The UAE sent forces to "liberate" Kuwait during the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War so this means there are at least two enemies of the late Saddam Hussein who censor Flickr. I wonder if this will be a trend.
posted by three blind mice at 7:49 AM on June 18, 2007