Comments on: Flickr curtails German photo sharing

Flickr limits German-speaking users to seeing only photos marked "safe" to comply with German law, but hopes to fix the situation soon.

[net_efekt--2008]

Flickr's bad customer dealings

If I am a German using a yahoo.com (US) id, then the new filter
doesn't apply to me. So why do they apply for those who are
registered with yahoo.de (Germany)? We're all Germans and the
same law applies to us, so, if jail were a real threat, then surley
the service would have been sued ages ago.

It seems that to avoid the new filter a lot of people have to pay
twice - ie. to create a new registration via the US site. This
certainly doesn't help.

Furthermore, why has it taken flickr such a long time to answer
the protesters? It took days for the first (very weak) reply, and
only now some clearer responses.

Hopefully they will have learnt some lessons about W2.0!

[flickrz]

Complexity

I think most of the people don't understand the complexity of doing business in international market. Eventhough the company is registered in USA it has employees in Germany. They can go to jail for doing the same thing in Germany that is perfectly legal in the USA. Now, which company would want their employees to go to jail. And, about jailing chinese journalist. I think it is overblown. Firstly, how would Yahoo or any other company for that matter would know why Police needs info about a certain guy? Chinese police doesn't go to company and say "he is a political dissident and we would like to get his identity". And, based on MOU they sign with local authorities they must submit that info to them else they'd be booted out of the country or worse the employees who refused to release the info could be jailed. These companies are not tools to promote freedom of speech and democracy in those countries. They are there to do business and increase value for their shareholders. So, it is hurtful to see people commenting on stuff they don't know about. You have to have had lived in other countries to understand how things work elsewhere and how companies have to comply to various legalities involved. Besides, Americans are the least respected in those countries because of the same arrrogance that has been posted by people here.
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo and love every moment of it.

[zachariah32]

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