Yahoo's Flickr Censored In China

Yahoo’s gotten bashed, again and again, over the way in which it’s cooperated with the Chinese government.  Apparently it didn’t cooperate as much as the government would have liked, however - images on Yahoo’s Flickr site are now being blocked.

The block actually seems to have been in place, off and on, for the better part of a week, but censorship is one of those things that are inherently hard to hear about.  For a while, even Yahoo didn’t seem sure of what was going on.

“It is our understanding that Flickr users in China are not able to see images on Flickr, and we have confirmed that this is not a technical issue on our end,” a spokeswoman told