In response to my email to yFrog asking them why they censored the Liz Taylor photograph (below), and my musing that perhaps yFrog felt it wasn’t art, but soft porn instead, I’ve had a curt but informative response:
No nudity is allowed on yfrog.
—
Mikhail Smirnov
Web Supportmsmirnov@imageshack.net
236 N. Santa Cruz Ave #100
Los Gatos, CA 95030
So there we have a definitive response which we can interpret and expand in to meaning:
‘It may be art, it may be soft porn, but either way we don’t care. If the subject is nude then we will censor the content because we are a prudish, small-minded bunch of right-wing, crypto-fascist, narrow-visioned idiots who really don’t give a flying fuck about the concept of freedom of speech’.
As a result of this corporate decision, these images would also be banned on yFrog:
To be honest, yfrog has every right to decide which pictures can be posted on their website and which cannot. There’s clearly no reason why they should indeed give a flying fuck about “freedom of speech”; they’re a company, not a public service.
Same as you have every right to decide not to use their services. Especially after having read the terms and conditions, in which they explicitly state that as far as they are concerned nudity=pr0n. (I’m wondering if it’s because they’re bigoted asshats or if it’s just because it’s easier that way?)
Ummm, although I agree with free speech, if Yfrog say in their Terms and Conditions that they don’t want nude pictures published, then that should be respected. For all you know, Yfrog could be hosted by the Amish!! I know that the Amish don’t have the electricity to host servers, but it serves as an example – the hosts may be more offended by images of nudity than you are by feeling that your freedom of speech has been curtailed!
please stop posting all these nudes my server will think I’m looking at porn (again)