This is one of the many (now) restricted photos:
Okay, this service is now totally unreliable. Suggestions, anyone?
Update: Here’s a Flickr photo extractor someone wrote (for pulling all your photos out of Flickr and moving them to another service) called Migratr. Scroll to the bottom for the new version.
Update: I received this email: Hello,
We apologize for the mis-classification of that image.
I have remarked it as “public”/”safe”.
Regards,
-Terrence
* for that one photo, now. I asked what about this photo (now censored) and many others?
Or, for the sake of conversation, Flickr has censored this one:
But not this one:
I *particularly* resent last week’s Wired article How Porn and Family-Friendly Photos Coexist on Flickr. I have NEVER uploaded porn to Flickr, I have NEVER been in porn, and I am NOT a porn performer. But in the article, Wired has me as synonymous with porn. Talk about porn when it’s valid. Explain Flickr’s mismanaged censorship. But do not confuse me with the two — simply because I write about sex. Thanks a fucking lot, Wired. Is this article what got my cheesecake photos censored, again? And, do I have to go through each and every photo to get them fixed? When will media shed the dated idea that any woman involved with sex is automatically a (guilty) sex performer?
If you’re not following why this is a continuation of as (non) problem and don’t see what my previous problems are, see this post.
Seems to me, Flickr is broken.
Update: So, I just went through one album and now Flickr has marked all the safe ones as officially Flickr approved safe (hopefully to keep them that way), and kept the ones I wanted restricted, as restricted (the same ones Flickr founder Stewart marked as restricted as well). There are still a couple more in other photosets that had been changed (even after getting the official okay). I’m going through them to see which ones Flickr changed *after* Flickr’s founder Stewart had personally approved the exact same photos — and requesting reviews, practically by hand, one by one. What a pain. It’s clearly another mistake, and not hypocrisy, but it’s so frustrating. I pay for this service, eh? If it wasn’t that all my friends and community were there… well, this blog will become more interactive and community responsive in the very near future. Still, someone should write an article called, “The MySpacing of Flickr”.
