Why Flickr Makes Me Nervous

Recently I have been using Flickr as a repository for new photographs posted at this site and elsewhere, and I've been trying to engage and understand the Flickr community. There is a lot of good stuff there. There are also a few things that strike me as odd or which raise some concerns. Read a post by a person describing one of these issues:

Flickr = Censorship

Rebekka is a single mom and art student living in Iceland. She's an artist and a talented one at that. She does amazing things with her camera. Recently she discovered that a gallery Only-Dreemin had been ripping her off. They'd sold thousands of dollars worth of her images and when she caught them and tried to make them give her the money that they stole from her they refused. So Rebekka did what anyone with a following on the internet might do and she posted about her frustration and plight on her flickrstream. And her story resonated loudly with the flickr community. Her story made the front page of digg and by days end she had 100,000 views on this particular photograph with hundreds of supportive comments...

Please follow the link and read the rest of the post.

Before Flickr deletes it.