My offbeat journalistic exercise of reporting on public figures parodied by the adult video industry has run afoul of Flickr’s policies. They’ve suspended my account and blocked everyone except for me from seeing it.
My site documented all the times that porn studios have mocked politicians and celebrities in X-rated movies. It included promotional art and photos from those videos, which I censored when necessary.
But that wasn’t enough for Flickr. In fact, it was all just a money grab. I could keep doing what I was doing as long as I upgraded from a free to a paid account. But I already have a paid Flickr account for family and personal photos and I didn’t want a second one for this side endeavor.
Now, anyone looking to see how many times Donald Trump or Barack Obama has been parodied by the porn industry will get a 404 error page. More dead weblinks in an internet awash in them.
I have downloaded the photos from the “offending” Flickr page and have started uploading them to a new blog on Google’s Blogger service. (See Porn Parodies Of Public Figures.)
I’ve already had to do this several times before. (See links below.)
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