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We are the generation that will have to face one of the biggest problems for a democracy: Where´s the limit between the acceptable security and the hardly earned freedorms?
Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: “A people that values its priviledges above its principles soon loses both”
So: What is best? Allow everything including nudty, to protect our freedorm of expression, which costed lots of lives in the past, or protect our minds and our kids from disgusting content?
Maybe, the most of us will agree that showing a 6 years old girl been raped it´s definitively not art, but, even in the case that someone said it is, thats ilegal, so that can be removed from any site on the web.
But, would that be an abuse?
We, as every animal, born nude. Our parents made us having sex. Those are parts of our body as any others (well, I have some extra affection to that part of me, but that´s my case...). Arms are pornography? Feet? There´s people that get hot with feet... So lets ban photos containg feet because they can be used for Is a penis of an adult man into the vagina of an adult woman art? I don´t think so, but I wouldn´t aprove if somebody banned it.
Flickr should be a free site. There are millions of free porno webs in the internet where people can seek for those things. There´s no need of wasting a place like flickr with censorship just because some people abuse the limits of the freedorm of expression.
sexual purposes.
Let´s get serious.

There are thounds of masterpieces of art that show nudity. And I´m just talking about nudity because that´s the theme of the photo. Things such as deleting people´s accounts, preventing them from commenting, selling our democratic convictions just to get into the Chinese maket (and I don´t care if Google did it first) or stuff like that are just dreadful.
We like our freedorms. We like our rights that protect us from real abuse. We want magazines to write and read the opinions of other people, we want voting, to choose our representants, etc.
These are our principles. Sometimes it might looks easier to look in other direction while some of these principles are harassed, like what happened in many parts of the world after 9-11. Yes, we feel a little safer, but things like the US Patriot Act (I mention this one because it´ll be known be most of the people) or others, like the CCTV Cameras that “protect” us, make our world a little closer to Orwell´s nightmare (1984). That´s when we change our principles for priviledges. Freedorm for security, for tranquility. Until we wake up a day and we see that everything´s gone to the toilet and somebody you can´t complain to it´s flushing it.

So, don´t let the consorship get into a place like this. That´s supposed to be a place for photgraphers, to show their work for free, talk/write to other photographers and above all, learn and shared. We don´t get paid for this, except the satisfaction of seeing our work seen by others, commented, faved. Shown.

That´s the kind of place that censorship changes forever.
If it´s not ilegal, let it be.
Don´t allow censorship, flickr-guys.
Please.

Remember Eisenhower: “A people that values its priviledges above its principles soon loses both”

... soon loses both...

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