http://www.pluggd.in/flickr-blocks-restricted-content-indian-ips-297/ We Heart Startups! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.pluggd.in/flickr-blocks-restricted-content-indian-ips-297/comment-page-1/#comment-118620 Flickr Flips SafeSearch On For India; IT Act - MediaNama Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:15:19 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/?p=6215#comment-118620 [...] the Safe Search option permanently on for Indian users for its photo sharing site Flickr, wrote Pluggd.in. Yahoo is thus significantly restricting the way its users access the its service, hypocritically, [...] [...] the Safe Search option permanently on for Indian users for its photo sharing site Flickr, wrote Pluggd.in. Yahoo is thus significantly restricting the way its users access the its service, hypocritically, [...]

]]> http://www.pluggd.in/flickr-blocks-restricted-content-indian-ips-297/comment-page-1/#comment-116593 Arty Fucking Smokes Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:54:58 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/?p=6215#comment-116593 Flickr/Yahoo is using it's usual excuse of "We follow the national laws for all our localized networks". If the Indian government has banned "restricted content" (mostly porn, but some artistic nudes) then Yahoo must follow suit in order to not get cut off entirely from that huge market. Evidently there is a workaround for people in India, since it's not the IP address that is checked by Flickr/Yahoo, but the primary email address. If the Yahoo/Flickr user changes their Yahoo ID from name@yahoo.co.in to name@yahoo.com then they will still be able to see restricted content. Yahoo's decision is not one I approve of (I'd rather they stood up to the lawmakers and made a stand for freedom of expression) but it's understandable given its history of pandering to hard-line/anti-freedom regimes. Maybe some of the Indian surfers will go elsewhere for their porn in future. The India-based providers of non-pornographic erotica will most likely have to take take their business elsewhere. Flickr/Yahoo is using it’s usual excuse of “We follow the national laws for all our localized networks”. If the Indian government has banned “restricted content” (mostly porn, but some artistic nudes) then Yahoo must follow suit in order to not get cut off entirely from that huge market.
Evidently there is a workaround for people in India, since it’s not the IP address that is checked by Flickr/Yahoo, but the primary email address. If the Yahoo/Flickr user changes their Yahoo ID from name@yahoo.co.in to name@yahoo.com then they will still be able to see restricted content.
Yahoo’s decision is not one I approve of (I’d rather they stood up to the lawmakers and made a stand for freedom of expression) but it’s understandable given its history of pandering to hard-line/anti-freedom regimes.
Maybe some of the Indian surfers will go elsewhere for their porn in future. The India-based providers of non-pornographic erotica will most likely have to take take their business elsewhere.

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