By: FedUpTwo

FedUpTwo — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:29:07 +0000

“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.”
The irony of this statement astounds me, in that Yahoo still refuses to “label” Flickr as a pornographic website. It also speak volumes about how these people at Yahoo don't really exist in the “real” world. How much effort is there in putting a small “Warning: Adult Content” label on the front page of Yahoo's Flickr, versus how much collateral marketing damage would be incurred? As great as it was to find this article, after having spent over five years struggling to get somebody to tell the truth about Flickr, things still continue to be the same on that Yahoo site. It continues to be masqueraded as the best family friendly secret porn site in the world, which always lets Yahoo have their cake and eat it too. This ongoing and disturbing behaviour by Yahoo and others involved (USDoJ,StateDept,etc) is beyond pathetic, in that it's not just a negligent but purposeful bypassing of filters, which allows the countless sex predators and perverts that freely call Flickr home, to share millions of hardcore porn images with school kids. How much longer will this pornographic shell game by Yahoo go on while they successfully hide the truth about the business they're really in? Hiding behind laws and being in the liberal democratic party's good graces (Obama has a Flickr page) will only get Yahoo so far when it comes to tricking parents, teachers and advertising clients in thinking Flickr isn't a porno site. There is a strong conservative wind blowing from the right in the US now and the time may come soon that a government representing the people, versus bribed by corporate interests, will finally call Yahoo out on this little identity crisis they seem to have that compels them to endanger kids for profit by surreptitiously publishing unlabeled porn into the open public in mass. These “clear” rules that Yahoo's reps claim give users fair warning are anything but. The only thing clear about content on Flickr is the need for Yahoo to quit ostensibly providing excuses and phony safety systems that hide the true adult nature of the website, and just own up to the truth, calling a spade a spade. It's the only right thing to do. But they won't, even if it means losing every legitimate and worthwhile ad client they have. Is there a story in that which will engage and interest readers? Funny this article never really made it across the pond where nobody believes this to be true and will berate you, calling you a liar for sullying Flickr's name. A late thanks for putting some effort into this story and shining a light on the dark side of Yahoo's premier pornographic photo site everyone (20% 3-17yrs) loves, Flickr.

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By: FedUpTwo