Via MotherJones: Pensacola residents Clinton Raymond McCowen and Kevin Patrick Stevens, producers of a very NSFW website last week faced a judge in an obscenity and racketeering trial for their work. The interesting thing? The defense planned to use Google search trends to demonstrate community standards.
“Time and time again you’ll have jurors sitting on a [...]

Posted July 7, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: community standards, Google Trends, obscenity, porn, search history, search logs, trial. Be the first one.

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is one of my favorite photographers on Flickr. Her photos are amazing, and it’s clear a lot of people agree. That’s the easy part. Then two problems arose: First Rebekka discovered that somebody was selling her photos for profit, and she posted about it. The community was shocked, and angry. And then, and [...]

Posted May 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: censorship, community, community standards, customer relations, flickr, Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir. Be the first one.

Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. FlyButtafly quickly joined the discussion, noting that she’d encountered some material she found offensive in pictures from other Flickr members: “as I’m going through the pictures, one shows up of a protestor holding a sign [...]

Posted August 1, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: Anthony Comstock, argument, Charles Keating, civil liberties, community standards, cultural imperialism, first amendment, flickr, free speech, freedom, J. Edgar Hoover, may offend, moral superiority, obscenity, porn, pornography. 6 Comments.