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Yahoo finally backed down and agreed to adopt the shareholder proposals we fought for. Their attempts to silence us are over but keep your eyes open because we will not let these corporate hacks try this again.

September 13, 2007

Against Censorship in Flickr and all Yahoo Services

Against Censorship in Flickr and all Yahoo Services

🏆 Won — 170 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 19 years, 2 months ago
We, users, clients, customers of Flickr and all Yahoo services, Demand Yahoo Directive Board to adopt the measures proposed by Yahoo shareholders in the last Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on last June, 12. Whereas, Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are fundamental human rights, and free use of the Internet is protected in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom to

Updates

June 24, 2007

The Yahoo board thinks they can quietly bury our rights while they tighten their grip on censorship. This surge of support proves they are dead wrong and we are done waiting for them to act.

Reached 100 supporters

June 24, 2007

6 Comments

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Jessica Yang
19 years ago Featured

How about focus on making the site faster instead of trying to silence your own users? sad what this company has become.

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Mark Mansour
19 years ago Featured

Keep the internet open. Censorship is a slippery slope and yahoo should know better than to control what people post.

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Elena Jordan
19 years ago Featured

used flickr for years but this is pushing me to look for other sites. dont kill your own platform.

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Kevin Meyer
19 years ago Featured

total overreach by corporate. let people be.

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Dave Thompson
19 years ago Featured

FREEDOM OF SPEECH MATTERS. stop acting like the thought police

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Sarah Palmer
19 years ago Featured

Ridiculous. Flickr was supposed to be about photography not policing every little thing people upload. Stop this now.