My protest-art has the words “Summertownsun sucks”. I put this artwork up in protest of Summertownsun complaining that i was infringing on their copyrighted work. They said I was posting images that they own. So flickr removed the images. But the images are actually in the public domain. So I protested Summertownsun’s actions by creating a piece of artwork and posting it on Flickr.

Then Flickr, in all its controlling, tightwad glory, removed that image too, and sent me an email which said, ”

Hi dazzlecat, ??In joining Flickr, you agreed to abide by the Terms of? Service and Community Guidelines. Specifically, you must ?not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate ?other Flickr members ?. We’ve removed the content, “SummertownSun Publishing?Sucks!”, from your photostream. Please note that similar? activity may result in the termination of your account? without warning.?? Regards,?? Omar??”

So what really happened here? The simple fact is that Flickr censored my artwork!!!

I sent out an email to all my contacts on Flickr letting them know I was deleting my account and why. Now I’m going to have to make another piece of protest-art called Flickr Sucks!