{"id":4765,"date":"2011-04-05T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T11:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T11:22:48","slug":"is-it-art-or-is-it-soft-porn-it-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4765","title":{"rendered":"Is it art, or is it soft porn? It doesn&#8217;t matter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t art, but soft porn instead, I&#8217;ve had a curt but informative response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No nudity is allowed on yfrog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nMikhail Smirnov<br \/>\nWeb Support<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:msmirnov@imageshack.net\">msmirnov@imageshack.net<\/a><br \/>\n236 N. Santa Cruz Ave #100<br \/>\nLos Gatos, CA 95030<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there we have a definitive response which we can interpret and expand in to meaning:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It may be art, it may be soft porn, but either way we don&#8217;t care. If\u00a0the 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&#8217;t give a flying fuck about the concept of freedom of speech&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this corporate decision, these images would also be banned on yFrog:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4766\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4766\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4766\" title=\"nude_michelangelo_david\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/nude_michelangelo_david-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nude_michelangelo_david-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nude_michelangelo_david.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">banned - as far as yFrog are concerned<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4767\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4767\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4767\" title=\"nude_venus\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/nude_venus-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nude_venus-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nude_venus.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">also banned on yFrog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}