{"id":5760,"date":"2009-06-10T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2009-06-10T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T20:34:53","slug":"flickr-deletes-account-of-man-posting-torture-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/flickr-deletes-account-of-man-posting-torture-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickr Deletes Account of Man Posting Torture Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/scavenger\/detail?entry_id=41498&amp;tsp=1\">Man critical of Obama wiped off the face of Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gawker&#8217;s Ryan Tate chronicles how <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5285064\/yahoo-nukes-mans-photos-over-obama-comments?skyline=true&amp;s=i\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo obliterated the Flickr account of user Shepherd Johnson<\/a> after he blasted Obama over a policy on torture photos.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, of Virginia man, is none too pleased with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2009\/06\/house-liberals-trying-block-obama-backed-foia-exemption-torture-photos\" target=\"_blank\">Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009<\/a>, otherwise known as the bill that would allow the Obama administration to withhold torture photos. Johnson apparently expressed his disdain for Obama&#8217;s support of the law on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House&#8217;s official Flickr photostream<\/a>. The comments were deleted. Johnson posted more comments, including another Flickr user&#8217;s photo of a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsworldwide.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/06\/obama-supports-bill-that-removes-photos-of-torture-for-cover-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">naked bleeding detainee<\/a> lying on the floor (warning: graphic). Without warning or explanation, the site erased Johnson&#8217;s handiwork along with his account and his 1,200 photos, many of which he did not back up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/scavenger\/detail?entry_id=41498&amp;tsp=1\">Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Jeez, I hope <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/scottsstickers\">mine<\/a> don&#8217;t bother them.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/scottsstickers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3631\/3497257605_29c636466f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle: Man critical of Obama wiped off the face of Flickr Gawker&#8217;s Ryan Tate chronicles how Yahoo obliterated the Flickr account of user Shepherd Johnson after he blasted Obama over a policy on torture photos. Johnson, of Virginia man, is none too pleased with the Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009, otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[163],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-torture-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}