{"id":397,"date":"2007-06-19T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=397"},"modified":"2007-06-19T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T19:20:00","slug":"flickr-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/flickr-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickr censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/telzey\/544978959\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1347\/544978959_beec8954a3_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/telzey\/544978959\/\">No Laughing Matter<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/telzey\/\">Telzey<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I picked up on this a bit late (probably because of our trip to Rome), but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a> have decided to filter photos obligatorily for users in German-speaking countries, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea.<\/p>\n<p>They claim the German filtering is because of German legislation, but that is actually much stricter concerning Nazi symbols (which aren&#8217;t filtered) than about nudity (which is), so it doesn&#8217;t make much sense.<\/p>\n<p>The very best coverage about this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/netzwelt\/web\/0,1518,489273,00.html\">this article in Spiegel Online<\/a>, but there&#8217;s plenty of coverage in English, too, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/business\/story\/0,,2104594,00.html\">this article in the Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/help\/forum\/42597\/\">this discussion on Flickr<\/a>.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Laughing Matter Originally uploaded by Telzey I picked up on this a bit late (probably because of our trip to Rome), but Flickr have decided to filter photos obligatorily for users in German-speaking countries, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea. They claim the German filtering is because of German legislation, but that is actually much stricter concerning Nazi symbols (which aren&#8217;t filtered) than about nudity (which is), so it doesn&#8217;t make much sense. The very best coverage about this is this article in Spiegel Online, but there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}