Flickr turns 2, and Flickr censors artful nude photography?

Sean Bonner sends Boing Boing some fun snapshots of Flickr's 2nd birthday (brthday?) bash in the Bay Area this weekend: Link, and here are more public photos with the tag "flickrturns2."

But in news that many will not find as pleasant, Boing Boing reader B.D.

says,

I was just uploading images to my Flickr account when I noticed a posting for new Community Guidelines. Amongst the Guidelines is the following "Don't":

Upload photos that include frontal nudity, genitalia or anything else that your bathing suit should cover in public areas of Flickr If you do we'll make your photostream private and remind you of this Guideline. If you don't heed our warning and continue to make similar content public, we'll terminate your account without warning. This applies to your Buddy Icon as well.

Presumably this guideline is designed to prevent pornography, which one can totally understand on a public site. However, it assumes that all nudity is pornography and in photography, as with all art, this is simply not the case. How will this affect sites that link to Flickr for nude photos? How will it affect access to such photos that a person wants to show publicly?

Link

Reader comment:

Anil Kandangath says,

I believe that Flickr's policy might be to safeguard itself against any legal action since there is no age verification to prevent minors from viewing public photos. Having said that, photographs that are made 'private' are not prevented from being displayed publicly. It only means that the Flickr page for the photograph is unavailable.
However, if you click on 'all sizes' and grab the link that Flickr provides you for displaying the photograph on external websites, you can easily display the photograph anywhere you please, irrespective of whether the photograph is public or private.