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Censorship from Flickr

Posted: August 19th, 2009 | Author: Daniel | Filed under: politics | Tags: | 1 Comment »

 As reported by the LA Times, the picture of the left was created by a 20-year-old college student from Chicago named Firas Alkhateeb. Flickr decided to pull the picture from Alkhateeb’s photostream because of “copyright-infringement concerns.” Flickr didn’t have the same reservations when it came to President Bush (here, here, and here).

So why the double standard?

Photog Thomas Hawk has more.

One Comment on “Censorship from Flickr”

  1. 1 10 Months after Obama’s election… | Life, Liberty, and Property said at 6:02 pm on August 19th, 2009:

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