more inappropriate censorship on the part of flickr
under the guise of removing offensive content, flickr continues to offend its users by removing them with no warning or explanation. this time the crime was... expressing left wing political opinions. read about it on Thomas Hawk's blog.
Labels: abuse of power, exposure, flickr
posted by VictoryGrey at
10:29 PM
14 Comments:
Where should one post photos instead?
I'd build a web page manually with the photos posted on that.
little tigger is right. posting on your own website is the best way to ensure you aren't supporting a company that's going to shit on its users.
that said, i still have photos on flickr. and i'll keep them there. but i don't have a paid account. i let that lapse after the last time flickr pissed me off by ignoring its users.
eventually i plan to post my photos on all the photo-sharing sites i can find so i can get more exposure and hopefully start to sell some of my work.
have to get my own site going first though.
I haven't gotten around to learning how to build a webpage and am not serious about photography anyway. I do have a few photos on flickr.
I do post music at soundclick. I kind of wonder about it. It seems the main thing stopping the internet from really taking over music, is that it takes too long to actually find good music online.
So you have myspace's useless search tool. (Not to mention crappy music player.)
At soundclick a big problem is that the rankings systems isn't very good. They need to tweak how they rank songs and they're completely closed to any criticisms about such things. I almost wonder if sites like soundclick are really mainly designed to co-op any attempt to truly replace the music industry with music online? It's just good enough that people don't bother attempting to make something better. But bad enough that it's never going to substitute the increasingly monopolistic music industry which is giving out such a crap product now that Michael Jackson's music was truly a golden age by comparison.
No, that doesn't look very good at all what flickr is doing. I wonder how much money one would have to invest to try to replace Flickr with something more ethical?
Have you ever thought about taking your case to Twitter? You could get your word out easier and reach more people
flickr is now censoring Ana...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anacrisan/
... her stuff is not visible unless you have an account to turn off "SafeSearch."
fuckwads.
flickr is now censoring Ana...
she hasn't posted anything in over a year, either. have you talked to her since then? do you think that's why she stopped posting? does she post anywhere else?
Have you ever thought about taking your case to Twitter?
it isn't really my case. i wanted to share this news here, with friends, but the original blogger, Thomas Hawk, is wildly popular in the photography realm and I'm sure he's doing a much better job getting the word out about flickr than i EVER could. :)
thanks for the suggestion, though. i don't have a twitter account but i need to get one soon.
@ VictoryGrey:
i'd love to know about Ana. i've not heard from her in a long time. i'll send her an email and see if she replies. i hope her stuff is backed up / archived by SOMEONE. it's crucial stuff and there's a lot of it.
@ Eyeran:
my own flickr story is old, and i posted several stories to NowPublic. THIS posting isn't my story, but it's here because flickr is one of my past traumatic events (just click on the label for flickr at the bottom of the blog entry to see all the flickr blog entries here). i'm not on twitter, either. not sure i need to be. i have so many accounts already ;-)
actually, i cannot find her contact info. it's not yet in my iphone/mac, it's still only in the Thunderbird address book... on the VAIO drive backup!!!!! damn it!!
It seems the main thing stopping the internet from really taking over music, is that it takes too long to actually find good music online.
here here. i used to find a lot of good music online when i kept up with music religiously, but nowadays, forget about it.
these days i pretty much rely on jace to turn me on to good music. =)
so why is it so difficult? there's a lot more crap i guess, since anyone can post their music online. and then search tools aren't effective enough.
but some websites are getting decent at algorithms that calculate what you'll like based on other things you tell it you like. last.fm is decent. i hear pandora is good but i haven't tried it since it first started, so i can't say. do you have experience with either of those services?
it's not yet in my iphone/mac, it's still only in the Thunderbird address book... on the VAIO drive backup!!!!! damn it!!
you use imap, right? can you log into cpanel and check for mail the two of you exchanged? or would that even be on there since the web hosting change?
I haven't really used those. Think I might have used Pandora for a very short time many years ago...
But anyway that's music which has been signed isn't it? Which, to even get signed in the first place, has not much to do with being any good these days. One of my recent favorite albums is by basically one guy who works as a waiter (Bajskorv) who's unsigned.
(Although then there's people who get 'signed' by tiny record labels that aren't able to promote their music at all, etc.) (I think actually Bajskorv pretended to have been signed, in an attempt to promote themselves...)
Is there unsigned music on those sites?
not sure about pandora (my guess is no) but i'm pretty sure last.fm is full of unsigned music (because i get spam messages now and then from kids who want me to check out their band, hehe).
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