Flickr censored in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong and Korea

A recent update on flickr.com causes uproar: as of yesterday users based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea can't turn off their SafeSearch filter. This is effectively censoring flickr.com for users with Yahoo IDs from those countries.

In the last 24 hours a huge wave of outrage sloshed through flickrland. Hundreds of users started to vent their indignation about being censored by posting the picture above tagging it thinkflickrthink, commenting and posting their own protest pictures.

More on the backgrounds (german)

More on flickr's SafeSearch: www.flickr.com/help/filters/

Here is the guy who designed the great badge above that now propagates through the flickr universe:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomtigerzoo/543864623/

Heise: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91085

Forum post on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/42597/

One of the mushrooming flickr anti-censorship groups: http://www.flickr.com/groups/againstcensorship/discuss/

How to get active: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-barth/544372319/

Free as in free beer

The Open Source Idea is spreading to the brewer community.

Felix just sent me this URL: http://free-beer.dk/blog/about/

A danish open source beer project. From the web site:

"The recipe and branding elements of FREE BEER is published under a Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5) license, which means that anyone can use the recipe to brew their own FREE BEER or create a derivative of the recipe. Anyone is free to earn money from FREE BEER, but they must publish the recipe under the same license and credit our work. All design and branding elements are available to beer brewers, and can be modified to suit, provided changes are published under the same license (”Attribution & Share Alike”)"