Flickr Relaxes Filters In Germany

In recent weeks and months, I’ve noticed that the Internet seems to have its own c-word: censorship.  I’ve also noticed that, like most companies, Yahoo wants nothing to do with this word.  So it wasn’t a huge surprise when Yahoo’s photo-sharing service, Flickr, relaxed its filters in Germany.

Flickr has one of the most vocal user bases I’ve ever seen - a single thread discussing the site’s filters/censorship received almost 5,000 replies before it was locked.  (The c-word was not at work here; the conversation was just redirected to a fresh thread.)   Flickr’s staff is also good at communicating its thoughts, and, after a tip from the