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.