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09/15/09
09/15/09
One hacker will be all it takes to delete forever the words of Shakespeare from our digital library of congress. People, hold onto your books, records, and vhs tapes. I'll hold onto my tin foil hat.
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09/15/09
/b/ is going to love this.
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08/25/09
The big elephant in the room here is that Yahoo as a company has issues with free speech and they should be open about it. The hypocrisy of claiming to support free discussion and closing down discussion at the same time is spectacularly silly.
Yahoo gave up a blogger to the Chinese government so all these issue ultimately tie back to issues of free speech, freedom and democracy so one can choose to be blase about it but please let not pretend its business as usual.
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft have all collaborated with the Chinese government to limit freedom, and this cannot be a good thing.
08/25/09
I think you have a great point about Yahoo's dealings in China, but to act like they're in any way connected to Flickr taking down some pictures and ending discussion threads kind of trivializes that in a way that's not too appealing.
About China: it would seem that that type of thing actually is "business as usual," if you want to tap into the Chinese market. I can assure you that Yahoo and Google, in particular, are not in that market otherwise. It's either play ball with the government and you're in, or resist the government and you're out. Breaching ethical boundaries in return for access to huge markets isn't exactly new territory for corporations.
I didn't know it was "blase" to not be absolutely shocked or make exaggerated claims about the broad significance of piddly things like Flickr removing a picture that, quite honestly, should have been removed anyway, or shutting down threads full of bitching about it. As usual, leave it to the bored-as-hell, reactionary internet masses to complain that their constitutional rights are under attack simply because Flickr won't let the put up any old picture they want.
08/25/09
If flickr wants to be a censoring overlord then why provide forum discussion or in that case photo services, let them tell their customers if we don't approve of your photos, according to not some well defined parameters but arbitrary judgement we will delete them. This sort of small mindedness and petty tyranny cannot suit any free system.
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For serious photogs like @allyzay, there might not be any comparison. Maybe Flickr could own that niche but their userbase -- even the paid userbase -- is for casual photographers, by which I mean people more interested in sharing pictures socially than any other purpose.
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Particularly when it censors information that doesn't fit within your (noticeably) infantile political philosophy. That's what's rich.
Before you read the information below (which I'm sure will just, like, totally exhaust you) I realize that yahoo! has absolute power to delete anything it desires. However, this activity (particularly regarding the information posted above, by Ryan Tate) runs quite parallel to companies and citizens censoring any disparaging speech directed towards Senor Fuck- Bag Bush shortly after that fateful day in September, 8 long years ago (and continuing through 2005).
Deleting customer accounts due to subject matter(s) not coinciding with your, or a company's, political values is obtuse, at best. You're intellectually shallow.
"You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not Yahoo!, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Yahoo! Services. Yahoo! does not control the Content posted via the Yahoo! Services and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Yahoo! Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will Yahoo! be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Yahoo! Services."
Also: "You agree to not use the Yahoo! Services to:
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upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
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harm minors in any way;
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impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Yahoo! official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
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forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Yahoo! Service;
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upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
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upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
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upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas (such as shopping) that are designated for such purpose (please read our complete Spam Policy);
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upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
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disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Yahoo! Services are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;
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interfere with or disrupt the Yahoo! Services or servers or networks connected to the Yahoo! Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Yahoo! Services, including using any device, software or routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers;
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intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
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provide material support or resources (or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources) to any organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
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"stalk" or otherwise harass another; and/or
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collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in paragraphs a through m above."
08/26/09
08/26/09
Censorship is admitting defeat. If you honestly see yahoo! in a positive light after all this, then your opinions are just as vapid as I suspected. It doesn't have to do with personal taste, it has to do with a company deleting your account because they don't agree with your politics. Again, intellectually shallow.
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