First Twitter (although we do understand, that was a financial decision), now Flickr, which appears to be a political decision, although they are claiming it’s a user agreement violation:
Nora Younis says:
The impressive flickr account of blogger and friend Hossam el-Hamalawy is facing censorship by flickr themselves! First they disabled pro-palestine photos he had taken in Ireland, then they started searching their old drawers for reasons to un-list his account from public search.
Shame!
I was just awarded Human Rights First 2008 award. I am quoting HRF here: “One of the few well-known women bloggers in Egypt, Younis, 31, represents a growing movement of young activists who use new media technologies -blogs and websites like Flickr and YouTube- to expose and document human rights abuses
Hossam says:
I had noticed that some of my recent pix from Ireland, that included the Palestine and the Republican murals were not viewable to the public unless they were signed in. I emailed the Flickr Gods. They were kind enough to respond back quickly and un-flag some of the pix, putting them on “safe†mode, but without giving me an explanation why they were flagged in the first place.
The only reason I can think of is an editorial anti-Palestinian bias.
Moreover, I was told my account has been marked as
Wael Abbas has also had his Facebook account blocked as of 2 days ago, without explanation, and hasn’t received an explanation.
Social networking tools failing social justice work at 3arabawy
on Nov 5th, 2008
@ 7:00 am:
[...] Finally, I send my warmest greetings to Flickr and its social network sisters.. Police intimidation, torture and arrests have never intimidated or disrupted the work of Egyptian bloggers… but it’s the social networking tools themselves that failed social justice work… [...]