Hamed Saber Saves The Chinese & Flickr From The Great Firewall of China

Yes! Noticing some links coming in to me I found a big discussion on flickr because as of a couple of days ago the Chinese govt. blocked flickr access for its citizens, they did not announce it and when you try to access in China there is no clue as to why the site is not working. Anyway word got around and Chinese peeps began to download the flickr plug-in for Firefox that Hamed invented (Iran Blogapalooza entry here), there are now lots of happy people in China accessing their flickr accounts, posting pics and able to blog about it. All thanks to Hamed, I think flickr should give him a permanent free pro account and thank him and he should be up for an award for creating a means for people to bypass state censorship and enjoy the community of photographers and their comments, in fact consider this a nomination. And… maybe that will stiffen the resolve of Yahoo (& google) to be less accommodating to censoring regimes. Hamed’s latest and one of his most favourite pics:

I’m not sure flickr realise it yet but because of their site, firefox and Hamed’s invention they are becoming one of the most important venues for artistic expression and free speech on the web.

To get Firefox:

http://www.mozilla.com

Once firefox is downloaded add the plug in, or get it here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286

I’m asking Hamed if it’s ok to make a banner/icon to put on my blog that will send people to the plug in to help it spread as I get quite a few searches for Hamed coming here, so that could be up soon.