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Flickr Deletes Obama Caricature
Flickr Founder Calls Nuked User 'A Dick'
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Flickr Deletes Obama Caricature |
Flickr Founder Calls Nuked User 'A Dick' |
08/20/09
Was that convincing? Would it help if I stood in front of a billowing American flag?
08/19/09
It's a hideous image, graphical violence done to Obama's face, simultaneously scarring and disfiguring him in Photoshop and making a mocking commentary on his race by putting him in Joker whiteface.
What does this have to do with his politics? Tell me. This image has been brandished at Town Halls with the word "Socialist" underneath it. Please explain that to me. Because it makes no fucking sense. The Joker is a socialist?
Boo hoo for you. Flickr deleted links to a godawful, degrading, yes racist picture some 20 year old Palestinian with no social skills spent 5 hours, defacing Obama's image. What's your problem with this? You can't get enough of this brilliant satire? It's artistic expression to you? It's a really cool picture to you?
Satire ought to have a point. Obama is the Joker? I seriously don't get it- no one does. It makes no sense, is not funny, and ultimately is some kid degrading Obama's face in a dehumanizing way. That right wing sites adopted as some sort of wit. That you're now defending.
Oh, is that censorship?
Tell us what's so fucking great about this nasty piece of work. One damned redeeming point about it.
08/19/09
If it were a piece of graf on the street, it would have been tagged over in hours.
08/20/09
06/14/09
This is some politically motivated BS. It's painfully obvious.
06/12/09
Another rule of the cloud according to Yahoo: 'There is no backup.'
Think about that the next time you put something there.
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But as a pure observer in this case the reflexive hostility is fascinating to me. It's like, "oh, another idiot customer worked up about his stupid photos he stupidly uploaded to us and now he's all upset we deleted them. What a waste of time for everyone who has to deal with this." Not sure if everyone at the company is that burned out or just Butterfield.
Now if he'd said, "that was a dick move commenting on Heather's photo," whole other story.
06/12/09
Flickr has a bulk photo upload tool. If they delete your account, you make a new one and re-upload those 1200 photos. It would take at most an hour, 59.5 minutes of which is just you writing snarky Gawker comments while your computer uploads in the background.
I just don't get people who whine about their stuff being deleted from web sites owned by other people. If you want your stuff backed up, either do it yourself or get your own damn web site where you're paying for someone else to do it for you. Flickr's a free web site (he didn't have a pro account), and you have basically no protection on it. Anyone who thinks differently is a fool, if not a dick.
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Of course, if you're on a Mac using iPhoto or another asset manager that's moot. But who does that?
06/12/09
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His reply is pretty restrained, given he's being addressed as "Stew" and "old sport" by a total stranger who apparently has some rather severe boundary issues.
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And in re to Shepherd Johnson: Well it looks like we just may have a total dick-situation going on here.
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