Germany and China Censor Flickr
Posted by Tarky7 on Friday, June 15th, 2007
Well the censorship issue has again hit Flickr, being driven by it’s corporate parent Yahoo. There is huge outrage among German Flickr users more than the Chinese simply because the Chinese Flickr members can’t see any images within Mainland China. Apparently the issue with the Chinese government is about the anniversary Tiananmen massacre in early June 1989.
The German ones appears to come from the recent move by Flickr to create interfaces in the native languages of various countries. The skinny is that since Germany has a ban on the display of Nazi Era artifacts, especially the German Swastika and other related materials.
As to whether or not this is coming out of Yahoo corporate giving in to these two countries demands, legal liability in Germany as is relates to the TOS, or just Yahoo being a bunch of Wankers, the jury is still out.
How does this relate ? It’s all about Web 2.0 and what is current with the Online Community.
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