Without any warning, Flickr.com suddenly eliminates entire account, without requested specific explanation, or offer of recovery.

peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com ^ | 7-4-23 | Daniel1212

[daniel1212]

Without any warning, Flickr.com suddenly eliminates entire account, without requested specific explanation, or offer of recovery.

 Without any prior warning or specific explanation afterward - despite attempts for any - about 3 weeks ago flickr.com (owned by SmugMug and headquartered in San Francisco, California suddenly eliminated my entire account, with no option to recover images.

There was nothing even close to porn, or violence, racism, vulgarity, profanity... among my pics, or known violations of copyrighted material (that would not qualify as "fair use"), and  I mostly used Flickr for my garden photos.

But the purgation occurred after I had uploaded images (for back up) from the CDC on HIV and STD stats, as seen in this blog post. https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2019/10/negative-effects-of-homosexual.html

Images (and extras) themselves can presently be accessed here: https://www.peacebyjesus.net/nehr/

After contacting help@flickr.com and providing their requested verification, their reply simply was,

This account was terminated for Terms of Use and Community Guideline violations and will not be restored.

You are no longer permitted to possess a Flickr account, nor access or use SmugMug services, which includes SmugMug.com as well as Flickr.com.

Attempts to create new accounts on either of these services will be deleted as well.

We’re not at liberty to discuss the specifics of accounts closed for violations, but please see https://www.flickr.com/help/terms and https://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines for more information.

Which terms of use, as is much the norm in TOU conditions, uses such subjectively-defined ambiguous terms (such as, "User Content that is...hateful, ...inflammatory,...or otherwise objectionable or harmful") that they could justify nuking most anything. 

[daniel1212]

What free image hosting does not use such subjectively-defined ambiguous terms?

[Paladin2]

Freedom ain’t necessarily free.

[Larry Lucido]

Never heard of it. It is “free”? Sometimes you get what you paid for.

[Socon-Econ]

There needs to be rules requiring explanation, recovery and unambiguous guidelines. Republican legislators — are you awake?

[metmom]

They hate God and Jesus.

[daniel1212]

Likely content considered hateful, ...inflammatory,...or otherwise objectionable or harmful:



New HIV Diagnoses Among Youth by Transmission Category and Sex (2017) in the US and Dependent Areas, 2017:

In addition are CDC stats that also include many STDs, which mainly are a result of heterosexual fornication.

Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

[daniel1212]

Ping

[napscoordinator]

They sent numerous emails to me telling me to delete what I don’t want or buy storage.

[Paladin2]

I know I have paid plenty to the storage device manufacturers over the decades.

[logi_cal869]

Ok. Compulsory query:

Would anyone please post a link to a Rumble-like hosting service which isn’t ‘woke activist’ in its TOU (assuming that one exists).

Thank you in advance.

I was already debating nuking my flikr account for numerous reasons, including the ceiling they’ve placed which makes a paid account almost mandatory. This makes it time to close the door.

[dforest]

Hah hah, those guys? Nah, if it doesn’t enrich them personally, they ain’t interested.

[GingisK]

Flickr sent a barrage of emails stating that anyone wishing to maintain their content must upgrade to a paid account. Those who chose not to do so would have their content deleted without recourse.

It seems they meant what they said. How refreshing.

[VideoDoctor]

Flickr sent a barrage of emails stating that anyone wishing to maintain their content must upgrade to a paid account.

Sounds like the old "GIVE US MONEY" or SCREW YOU!

[Robert DeLong]

The lesson learned should be, invest in your own devices to back up & store your data on. Data not on a device you control is data in danger of exactly what happened, being deleted at the whim someone else. Portable devices are inexpensive, and no one has control over them but you.

[napscoordinator]

I’m starting to. Just bought two years of Flikr. And now this iCloud thing which I still have to figure out if I have to pay soon or eventually. I was always afraid storage was a scam. Lol. Clearly it is not and will be widely used by everyone in a few years if not sooner. I’m waiting for the Facebook crackdown. Lol.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah but I’m no fan of the “It’s Free.... but hey, by the way. F*** YOU!” business model.

[daniel1212]

The lesson learned should be, invest in your own devices to back up & store your data on.

Thanks, but I do back up as a rule, having a good amount of storage via SSDs, and did not say that I lost anything of value, but that they did not even offer to provide such, nor even a actual explanation for their sudden deletion (and no, there was/is no policy that required all free accts to upgrade to a paid accounts in order to maintain their content - except for Restricted or Moderate content, which none of mine were cited as).

The issue is not that of losing my own data, but of making it available for all. I should have made it clearer that the purpose of my post was that of providing another example of wanton liberal censorship, thus not to be trusted.

[Robert DeLong]

Sounds to me, from other comments, it was their desire to make money. It was free hosting until it wasn't anymore. Anymore has arrived.

Could be the result of the Biden economy. 🙂

[daniel1212]

Flickr sent a barrage of emails stating that anyone wishing to maintain their content must upgrade to a paid account. Those who chose not to do so would have their content deleted without recourse. It seems they meant what they said. How refreshing

Show me even one saying that. The only emails I see are those offering discounted upgrades, such as on 5/4/22,

Here’s a quick reminder as our new free account limits go into effect: if you want to upgrade to Flickr Pro for up to 25% off, you have until May 18, 2022, so act fast! It looks like the free account limit changes won’t affect you, but now’s a great time to upgrade anyway—especially if you’ve been thinking about posting private photos to Flickr, or dipping your toes into the kinds of photography we consider “moderate” or “restricted.”

Which was preceded by this on 4/19/2:

Beginning May 1, 2022, Flickr will start enforcing our recently-announced Free account changes regarding Restricted and Moderate content. What this means: Free accounts with Restricted or Moderate content will be considered in violation of our terms of service and subject to removal. Accounts found in violation of our terms will need to either subscribe to Flickr Pro or remove the content in violation.

However, my content was never cited, treated or or classed as Restricted or Moderate and as Fliker stated "It looks like the free account limit changes won’t affect you." Nor was there any notice to remove the content in violation, while the violative content remains a mystery.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Never EVER put anything you care about in the cloud. Friend let her iPhone do this. Then an automatic O/S update cut her off from all her pictures. Tech support just shrugged.

Likewise never put anything that the government might use against you ten years from now into the cloud.

Best plan: never use web-based storage sites at all.