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God, but people get upset about shite on the internet, don’t they?

A massive gripe amongst the Flickr Flappers at the moment is the idea that blogging a picture off the site is theft and that these people should be punished. That it is outrageous that someone could consider blogging without asking permission to do so! Some cunts are really missing the point of the internet, methinks. Namely that the internet exists as a method of sharing information, that blogging is a big part of this and that generally if a Flickr picture gets blogged it is a good thing.

One above that in the hysterical hand-flapping charts are the Petitions to Flickr lot. As far as I can make out, this came about because some dodgy porn site was scraping pictures of children off Flickr and posting them in a dodgy location.

Of course, this is unacceptable, but the furore that followed was a fantastic display of ignorance. They have been making all manner of suggestions as to how Flickr can stop paedophilia - ranging from demanding creditcard verification before allowing an account to be opened, to tracking all IP addresses and sending them to the FBI, blocking anyone that ever faved a picture of a child… the list was too ludicrous to bother investigating, check the group out if you’re interested. Don’t these people realise that all paedos get castrated before they reach puberty these days?

Another case of idiots escaping the asylum. They post pictures of their precious kids on the internet and then call anyone who looks at them a paedophile. Because a paedo is never going to be a parent, relative, neighbour or friend, is it? Not in 95% of cases? Implausible.

I just wanted to point out that they should be grateful the pervs were just wanking over their kids and not raping them… But I figured that some parents might view this as though their kids were under-achievers, so I buttoned my lip.

Last, but not least, is the story of the twat in the US who left $10,000 of camera equipment under a jacket and is getting idiots on Flickr to fund buying him new gear because apparently his insurance won’t cover it. Unbelievable.

I got twatted with lomokev on Friday and offered a copy of the picture below, signed by the both of us. But they deleted my thread and banned me from the group.

Ungrateful cunts.
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