"Update 9:27am January 18, 2012: We removed the 10 limit, you can darken to your dark heart’s dark desire."
Flickr goes creative for SOPA blackout
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#22All these positive comments are surprising. I find this to be a very bad idea. Flickr is a service (unlike HN) that some people depend on, and that some people pay for . So Flickr is saying that, even if I pay for their service, they might deny it to me, at the whims of other users? Flickr is showing themselves to be untrustworthy -- and possibly in breach of contract. I would suggest not relying on them.
Isn't there an opt-out mechanism so that your photos won't be darkened? I assume they put this in here because there are professional photographers on the site.
Yea, read the entire article please!
Re: Flickr goes creative for SOPA blackout
#23All these positive comments are surprising. I find this to be a very bad idea. Flickr is a service (unlike HN) that some people depend on, and that some people pay for . So Flickr is saying that, even if I pay for their service, they might deny it to me, at the whims of other users? Flickr is showing themselves to be untrustworthy -- and possibly in breach of contract. I would suggest not relying on them.
Isn't there an opt-out mechanism so that your photos won't be darkened? I assume they put this in here because there are professional photographers on the site.
Well, that's nice. But still, having told them I want a service, and having paid for it, I am now required to notify them that I still want to get the service that I already paid them for?
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#24To bad the Whitehouse photo-stream is exempted. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/
The photos are darkened for me.
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#25To bad the Whitehouse photo-stream is exempted. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't there an opt-out mechanism so that your photos won't be darkened? I assume they put this in here because there are professional photographers on the site.
Well, that's nice. But still, having told them I want a service, and having paid for it, I am now required to notify them that I still want to get the service that I already paid them for?
These sites believe that they face an existential crisis due to this proposed legislation. Slightly impacting the service today to save it for the long term is clearly worth the tradeoff, if it's necessary.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, that's nice. But still, having told them I want a service, and having paid for it, I am now required to notify them that I still want to get the service that I already paid them for?
These sites believe that they face an existential crisis due to this proposed legislation. Slightly impacting the service today to save it for the long term is clearly worth the tradeoff, if it's necessary.
Well, I guess a number of people disagree with me. And I can accept that (although I still disagree). But I think I should point out that "worth the tradeoff" is not the issue I'm talking about. For example, suppose I pay for something at a store, but the store refuses to give it to me, because they're protesting something. We can certainly ask whether the store's policy is "worth the tradeoff", but is that really the question we should be asking?
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#29Re: Flickr goes creative for SOPA blackout
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
These sites believe that they face an existential crisis due to this proposed legislation. Slightly impacting the service today to save it for the long term is clearly worth the tradeoff, if it's necessary.
Well, I guess a number of people disagree with me. And I can accept that (although I still disagree). But I think I should point out that "worth the tradeoff" is not the issue I'm talking about. For example, suppose I pay for something at a store, but the store refuses to give it to me, because they're protesting something. We can certainly ask whether the store's policy is "worth the tradeoff", but is that really th…
But that's not at all like the situation at hand. They're not refusing anything — it's only for one day, and if you don't want to participate, you don't have to. What you are complaining about is a minor inconvenience at worst.