Update on Flickr filters
by Volker Weber
It looks like my speculation about distributing porn to minors was right on the money. Yahoo is trying to protect the people in their German office. They probably couldn't care less if they did not have those people on the line.
It is all about §184 StGB, which prohibits the distribution of porn to minors, punishable with up to one year in prison. It is also pretty clear, that Yahoo has two problems:
- Yahoo has no working age verification system.
- Yahoo has no means to identify pictures which qualify as porn.
Their only available option is to lock everybody out of everything that could potentially qualify as porn. The collateral damage is huge.
It is a solution we have seen before: treat every passenger and every visitor as a potential terrorist.
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Ouch...!
As you wrote in another post, everyone has the freedom to leave. And it seems this could happen at flickr soon...
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