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Flickr censors Germany

“Flickr launched sites in seven languages Wednesday, expanding beyond just English. But because of a German law, the company decided it had to restrict the photos German members could see to those that had been marked ’safe’ by members…”

This is a few days old, but I only just found the story. It seems Flickr is now embroiled in yet another row over censorship, this time over restricting the entire German-language site to “safe” photos only. Webware article here.


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