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Flickr Censors Egypt Police Photos

Posted by Soulskill on from the state-of-de-nile dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday Flickr removed a photoset of Egyptian Secret Police photos which had been posted to an Egyptian journalist's Flickrstream. The photos were obtained when the journalist acquired them from what he called 'one of Mubarak's largest torture facilities.' Flickr cited the fact that the photos 'were not the user's own work' as justification for the censorship, even though Flickr staffers themselves frequently upload work that is not 'their own' to their personal photostreams."

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  1. Re:Shame by ibsteve2u · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why, I would like to know, is it easier for pipsqueaks like us to stand up to government coercion than for large corporations with a stable of capable lawyers on hand and not a fear in the world for their own safety? Of course, we already know the answer.

    The CEOs of all of the world's great corporations are scaredy-cats?

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    Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
  2. Re:How many services are this misguided lately? by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dunno. Live in a particularly nice cave and you might be good for a reality tv show.

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)