Without any prior warning or specific explanation afterward - despite attempts for any - about 3 weeks ago flickr.com (owned by SmugMug and headquartered in San Francisco, California suddenly eliminated my entire account, with no option to recover images.
There was nothing even close to porn, or violence, racism, vulgarity, profanity... among my pics, or known violations of copyrighted material (that would not qualify as "fair use"), and I mostly used Flickr for my garden photos.
But the purgation occurred after I had uploaded images (for back up) from the CDC on HIV and STD stats, as seen in this blog post. https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2019/10/negative-effects-of-homosexual.html
Images (and extras) themselves can presently be accessed here: https://www.peacebyjesus.net/nehr/
After contacting help@flickr.com and providing their requested verification, their reply simply was,
This account was terminated for Terms of Use and Community Guideline violations and will not be restored.You are no longer permitted to possess a Flickr account, nor access or use SmugMug services, which includes SmugMug.com as well as Flickr.com.
Attempts to create new accounts on either of these services will be deleted as well.
We’re not at liberty to discuss the specifics of accounts closed for violations, but please see https://www.flickr.com/help/terms and https://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines for more information.
Which terms of use, as is much the norm in TOU conditions, uses such subjectively-defined ambiguous terms (such as, "User Content that is...hateful, ...inflammatory,...or otherwise objectionable or harmful") that they could justify nuking most anything.
The reason for this post is not due to losing any of my own content, which is minimal, but that of providing another example of wanton liberal censorship via its use of subjectively-defined ambiguous terms, thus further exampling how such is not to be trusted.
