Our stories on adult content being easy to find on Flickr had readers telling us of similar experiences, and catapulted the topic into our most viewed pages. Now, further to its comment on Monday, Yahoo! has responded with the following statement…
“Flickr is a community of members who share millions of new photos every day. As the site has grown, we’ve continued to introduce new tools and features to ensure that all of our members have a safe and fun experience – from privacy controls over who can view a member’s photos to SafeSearch, a flagging system that requires our members to label their content as ‘Safe’, ‘Moderate’ or ‘Restricted’ so members only see the images they want to see.
“In joining Flickr, our members agree to abide by the Yahoo! Terms of Service and our Community Guidelines. Those guidelines require that our members label the content that they are uploading. Unfortunately, like the real world, there are individuals who feel that the rules don’t apply to them and fail to label their content appropriately.
“Members who stumble across what they feel may be inappropriate content on Flickr can either flag a photo so it can be reviewed by the Flickr Team or file a query via the “Report Abuse” link that’s available in the footer of every page on Flickr. Report Abuse is a high priority area that’s managed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
“Flickr and Yahoo! take child protection extremely seriously and are active members of the Internet Watch foundation.”
So there you have it. If you spot anything rude on Flickr, give the report abuse button a prod. Flickr says it’ll investigate everything that’s reported, no matter how late at night you’re surfing.
