I recently realized several images on my Flickr stream have been moderated by the Administration staff of the site.

No one notified me. I just bumped into the fact that some pictures were missing when I wanted to show my stream to a friend in his computer. What a bummer. An invisible individual with apparently higher morals than me can decide whether my images are offensive or not. On Redbubble, an Admin contacted me  to notify that one of my paintings (!), which was considered offensive, had been deleted. They offered me the chance to complain and have my case reconsidered (thing you can try on Flickr as well but you’ll never get an answer). I did complain but nothing ever happened…

These censorship policies really bother me, but hey…what can I do…that´s the way things work. In an environment that seeks to offend the least number of their members, I’m lucky just some of my images have been ‘moderated’ and thankfully I’m not completely ‘unsafe’ for the Flickr community (…) :/

Just wanted to let you know, that if you aren’t signed in and have your safe search filter off, you won’t be able to see my entire stream.

Moderated and not moderated Flickr stream