Free Iraq

Now, now Imad, you aren't showing those little 13 year-olds the grubby realities of war in Iraq, are you?

You MONSTER. You're going to turn them off playing "America's Army" on their Xboxes -- and you might even turn them off signing up for the cannon fodder assembly line when they reach the mature age of 18! (Do you WANT them to know that they can't just hit the Escape key and respawn, after they drive over the Improvised Explosive Device?)

Remember, the costs of war should be kept private and out of the spotlight, lest they sap morale and support for our President, who after all has been given his position by God.

Be a good boy and do what Fox does. Just show a flag and a SUV, instead.
 

This is crap. I think they SHOULD be able to see it.

Yesterday I saw a tribute to a fallen US soldier on CNN - there was a picture of him smiling with a bomb in his hand - the bomb is labeled "this one is for you mum" - how flattering for her to know that bomb may have killed someone in her name!
THAT should have been banned but every kid in the US probably saw it!

Plus, anyone of any age can get access to other websites (who shall remain nameless) which show worse - execution and torture videos (beheadings and floggings) and images of death are easily accessible there.....one site I looked at recently shows Udday Hussein torturing some Iraqi men.....
Maybe they should also consider consider banning all those war games you can play on the PS2 and XBox.

They are full of crap
 

How does Copyright relate to Flickr's "13-years-old" age-related directive re posted photos of corpses?

As written, the paragraph says the Flickr account holder (Dr. Khadduri, in this instance) must be older than 13. I presume he is. Further, I assume the possibility of an unstated intent which got scrambled into an unintelligible string of words.
 

For the record (see Heidi's last sentence)
FLICKR AGE POLICY: Q&A email exchanges

Q: Who specifically must be 13 or over?
A: Anyone using the site: viewing/uploading/downloading photos, registering an account

Q: What is the mechanism for ensuring compliance?
A: All persons registering for an account are required to abide by Terms of Use

Q: How does an account holder know whether those viewing photos are 13 or over?
A: An Account holder doesn't know. We protect each user's privacy.

Q: Then WHO monitors the 13-year age restriction?
A: There is no way to assess a viewer's actual age on the Internet. To create a Flickr
account you must be over 13 years of age.

Q: Policy & enforcement: It is done on an ad hoc basis?
A: (n/a)

Inferences allowed.
 

Hello Imad
You are causing little ripples.
I found this.
Watch your back
 

You know, any 12 or 13 year old can get on websites such as The Nausea, Rotten or Mindprod.
TheNausea was set up to alert people to just how violent and horrible human beings can be in any country (though some people argue otherwise). They say that if their site nauseates you, then it has done its job. I never see anything like that site, videos and images show the worst that human nature has to offer. You can click on any country around the globe to see their particular sins.
I know Flikr doesnt own it, but I still think they are making excuses so that people dont have to look at the realities of war on their American owned site.
 

Flickr, part of An International Vow of Silence?
 

I'm a U.S. physician and I am aware of trauma issues. As long as our tax dollars are confronting small, vulnerable children in Iraq and Afghanistan with the actual carnage of our brutal assault and occupation, the killing before their eyes of the people they love, our little ones should see every photo and U.S. parents should finally become as outraged as I already am!
 

Dockizin in case you forgot, american parents wont see iraqi children or women in the same light as their own. U R asking a nation to sympathize with another nation that is on the other side of the world, whose culture it does not grasp, whose language it does not understand and who are of a different skin tone. You are wasting your time
 

War photos, and why we need more, not fewer:
Stop killing us and then waving the flag!
This article succeeded, like none other, in enabling me to comprehend the barbarity inflicted on our own sons and daughters.

Dockizin -
Thank you for your outrage.
 

Doc Kizin we know its all about denying the truth to people, controlling their minds, whatever the cost. The US government does it well, and so does the lying Blair regime.
The only way they can stop truth getting out completely is by killing people. I often wonder if Dr David Kelly's death was really suicide...

This is just how bad censorship has got in the USA...........!!!!!!!!

I quote Herbert Foerstel (former Head of Branch Libraries at University of Maryland and board member of the National Security Archive).......

"The most common examples of book censorship are in schools and public libraries, and all those examples are most often involving children's literature. Political groups attempt to remove books from library shelves because those books use 'naughty' words, do not have happy endings... or because they have too many rainbows. Rainbows are considered a sign of 'New Age' religiosity. Little Red Riding Hood was the 24th most banned book in the early 90's mostly because she had a bottle of wine in her basket. Many organizations demanded a non-alcohol Little Red. They were successful sometimes in their efforts, by the way."

Then look at how such severe control of people's minds extended to foreign countries.....

Simon Harak, a professor of religion, described UNSCOM efforts after a delegation of Catholic priests visited Iraq a year or two ago,

"UNSCOM went to the University of Mosul, about 250 miles north of Baghdad, went into the university library and broke the window. Then they threw the chemistry books (and maybe the physics books too) out the window and into a ditch and burned them....The point here is...that the sanctions remain in force until Iraq no longer has the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction. And that would mean that UNSCOM would be within its rights to destroy books, too, which preserve all the chemical/biological knowledge. Of course, when you think about it, this means the destruction of any person as well who might have such knowledge....In a recent New York Times article, Gary Milhollin said that even though the Iraqis no longer produce weapons of mass destruction, they still have the capacity to do so, because their scientists are still alive and doing research. He followed up by saying, `You can't destroy weapons research development unless you kill people.'"
 

Well, Imad don't feel too bad.

Even B Gate's MS is BS.

After all... business is business, right? I mean, we'll have to block all references to Israel for MSN Saudi Arabia, all references to Greece for MSN Turkey, all references to Turkey and Macedonia for MSN Greece...

Hey, what a value-added service!

Here at Micro$oft, we censor to order!

Note that Americans constantly carp on and on about how "capitalism and market economies are inextricably linked with democracy". Well, it seems
that this little capitalist enterprise (e.g. MSN) isn't really interested in spreading democracy... they just do their masters' bidding.
Money makes it A-OK.

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Microsoft blocking words on China's Web?
Published: June 13, 2005, 9:55 AM PDT
By Dan Ilett
Special to CNET News.com

Microsoft may have banned the words "democracy" and "freedom" from the Chinese version of its MSN Web site.

The MSN Web site is blocking anti-communist phrases by sending an error message to anyone using the words, in a bid to avoid upsetting the Chinese government, according to the Financial Times.

The message reportedly says: "This item contains forbidden speech. Please delete the forbidden speech from this item." The words "demonstration,"
"democratic movement" and "Taiwan independence" are also said to be banned.

Microsoft issued a statement via e-mail saying: "The content posted on
member spaces is the responsibility of individuals who are required to abide by MSN's Code of Conduct, which can be viewed (here). MSN abides by the laws and regulations of each country in which it operates."

The drama is the latest in a spate of moves by the Chinese government to censor certain areas of the Internet. Chinese officials are currently trying to make people register Web sites with the state by July or risk being shut down.

Microsoft partnered with a state-owned company, the Shanghai Alliance Investment, last month to create the Chinese arm of MSN.

Dan Ilett of Silicon.com reported from London.
 

Mr Imad I suppose he is right, there are worse scenarios. I read a news clip a few months ago of an Iranian blogsite owner being put in prison because he challenge Iranian government on his blog....