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It should not come as a surprise that some people are uploading porn to Flickr--a photo-sharing site--and other people are looking at that porn. According to Business Insider, there's some straight-up smut. "There's old men with little girls, hardcore stuff, bondage, and feet everywhere," writes BI's Nicholas Carlson. "Some of it is merely gross. Some of it is plain wrong. We're not linking to it, but trust us, it is there."
Carlson goes on to explain that the dirty pics on Flickr are creating some problems for the photo site's parent company, Yahoo: advertisers are getting upset about their ads showing up next to pictures of naked girls or feet or whatever. Cathryn Weems, the policy and abuse manager for Flickr, explained to Carlson that they "only serve ads on safe content" but it's the users who mark it as unsafe. If it's not marked, an ad could appear. As Weems says, "Every [user-generated content] site … runs up against this problem."
So is Flickr any worse than YouTube or Facebook? Carlson would have you think so. He ends up sort of scolding the company for not better moderating its content, saying the illicit photos "seem like a sign of rot at Yahoo, and Flickr," where they've let "a once-modest porn problem to grow wildly beyond its control."