Do you know this apparently violates Photobucket's terms of service

[dangermousie]

WTF!

Is it run by the more hardline elements of Saudi Arabian conservatives?

Since when is a bit of a glimpse of a fully-clothed woman's shoulder, with a cut on it, is equivalent to hardcore porn or similar. WTF!

Comments

[iheartpotatoes.livejournal.com]

It DOES kind of look like a vagina! I wonder if they somehow mechanically weed out porn by blocking out anything that looks like it shares certain characteristics.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL! It would have to be mechanical because if you look at the pic it's pretty clear what it is :)

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Photobucket pulled my Matsujun An-An pics. XD I think any bare skin sends up red flags.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That's insane though! I saw those An-An pics, there wasn't any iffy bits in there: even a very puritan person would rate them PG-13 at most. And nobody in their right mind would rate a pic of a shoulder anything but G.

What on earth are their TOS?

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm just guessing, but I would suspect a ban on nudity of any kind (that they can catch). It's such a huge site, their workload would probably triple if they tried to review all questionable content on a case-by-case basis.

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

I made some icons of from famous paintings with nudity in them. Old paintings. The kind anyone can go to a museum to see. Photobucket removed them. *shakes head*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That is completely insane!

[morwen_peredhil]

What?

That is crazy.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Indeed :)

[angelicus.livejournal.com]

You know, at first glance and at the thumbnail...and if I don't stare too long...it could look dirty. *shrug* Maybe Photobucket has various pictures of vaginas stored in a program and if a picture pops up that matches any of them even vaguely, it gets pulled. They have to have some kind of automated program, right? There can't actually be that many people looking at every single picture that gets uploaded and deciding if it's decent or not?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Really? I must be sheltered it never occurred to me. Photobucket is so odd :)

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Okay, I TOTALLY thought I was looking at something else for a second there.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL, really?

[seven-trees.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I even had to click on the image because I was like, why would dangermousie post a picture of a vagina? That seems extremely random.

[kathputli-girl.livejournal.com]

Haha, at first glance I thought it was some cleavage with something funky going on!
But that's kind of extream - they must not have actually looked at it closely.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Especially since the original pic isn't the little thumbnail :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

This is the most bizarre thing that I have seen violating PBucket's terms of service!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

They must uphold morality somehow :)

[hiiyaa.livejournal.com]

Hahah, I guess we can conclude that they definitely don't check them manually, if we ever doubted it in the first place that is :D.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Their automatic program is clearly a Victorian.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what that picture could have been!

Maybe photobucket confused it for another body part somehow? Very weird.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

So very bizarre.

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

OH! How dare you post these highly erotic pics of a... a... --I can barely bring myself to utter the word-- shoulder! This goes against every belief I've ever held dear: women of good standing and virtue DO NOT have shoulders (*shudder*). I'm now off to drape cloth around the backs of chairs for they remind me of this offending body part.

Seriously, I have since long given up on understanding the logic Photosucket relies on.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know, I should be ashamed of myself. What next, ankles! *gasp* Or even toes!

[animeshon.livejournal.com]

photobucket should really look at some of the actual porn like photos on their site rather than pictures of shoulders. I was surprised at work once after searching photobucket, our internet security guy not impressed! Good thing he loves me and accepted that it was an accident.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Seriously...so bizarre!