{"id":3553,"date":"2009-08-21T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T08:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2009-08-21T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T08:23:23","slug":"flickr_vs_free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"Flickr vs. Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/08\/21\/flickr-v-free-speech-where-is-the-courage\/\">Mike Arrington<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>One thing I\u2019ve learned over the years is this &#8211; screwing over your users while yelling \u201cthe lawyers made me do it!\u201d rarely ends well. Particularly when the lawyers are just being lazy, and free speech rights are at stake.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nFlickr really stepped in it this time. And they\u2019ve sparked a free speech and copyright fascism debate that is unlikely to cool down any time soon.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSometime last week they took down a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. The image was created and uploaded to Flickr by 20 year old college student Firas Alkhateeb while \u201cbored over winter school break.\u201d It was also later altered yet again by someone else and used to create anti-obama posters that went up in Los Angeles.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThomas Hawk has a good overview of some of the other details, but the short version is the image was removed by Flickr sometime last week due to \u201cdue to copyright-infringement concerns.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nPeople are angry over the takedown. There are lots of pictures mocking President Bush on a Time Magazine cover on Flickr that haven\u2019t been removed. And of the Heath Ledger Joker character.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/08\/21\/flickr-v-free-speech-where-is-the-courage\/\">Mike Arrington<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>One thing I\u2019ve learned over the years is this &#8211; screwing over your users while yelling \u201cthe lawyers made me do it!\u201d rarely ends well. Particularly when the lawyers are just being lazy, and free speech rights are at stake.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nFlickr really stepped in it this time. And they\u2019ve sparked a free speech and copyright fascism debate that is unlikely to cool down any time soon.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSometime last week they took down a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. The image was created and uploaded to Flickr by 20 year old college student Firas Alkhateeb while \u201cbored over winter school break.\u201d It was also later altered yet again by someone else and used to create anti-obama posters that went up in Los Angeles.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThomas Hawk has a good overview of some of the other details, but the short version is the image was removed by Flickr sometime last week due to \u201cdue to copyright-infringement concerns.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nPeople are angry over the takedown. There are lots of pictures mocking President Bush on a Time Magazine cover on Flickr that haven\u2019t been removed. And of the Heath Ledger Joker character.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,14,44,36,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}