Love is a verb. (saygoodbye) wrote, @ 2008-04-08 15:59:00

Current mood:

infuriated

A victim of child pornography. What would you do?
Outraged, upset, and distant are what can be used to describe my demeanor at the moment. Innocently signing into my flickr account where I get this email, one no mother ever truly wants to get... but not just this no email any photographer wants to get either.

My attention is called upon this photograph of my son Joey



It was brought to my attention that this pedophile profile has added this as a favorite. Along with numerous other boys his age some in suggestive poses if you are thinking "that" way. But here my son... my son is just on a bike with no shirt on because it was almost 100 that day. Doing something innocent and just what kids do everyday. I’m having a moral dilema... am I subjecting them to this? I mean I am taking the photos, uploading them to my computer, editing them and then going out of my way to place them on my photography website(well flickr for now).. and allowing anyone in the free nation with internet connection to see them.

I’m a photographer.

Each piece I shoot is to be subjective and taken differently but do I really want "pedophilia" to be in the repatuear?

Now I’m not over reacting a fellow flickr’r I do not even know contacted me about this. But if you go to his profile (the pedo) this is what you see.

He has no contact info, no photos, just favorites, and look at the communities he belongs too! Tiny dicks????!! Are you kidding me!?!


I’m even more upset some of these things exisit!!!

Here you can clearly see he added the image I have up top to his favorites.


(bottom right hand corner)

Not just this, he added it as a favorite a LONG time ago, This upsets me. I have hundreds if not thousands of views everyday on my flickr. More so of course when I update a lot. I’m favorited by many people so mostly you don’t go in and click every profile that adds your stuff as favorites.

What would you do? I do not want to rip all my photos down of my kids that is a. in the 1000s b. some of them are top quality and c. why give someone that much power over your lens.

I just feel dirty and violated . Why do people have to be so fucking sick. It’s a disease blah blah blah well stay the hell away from my son, my lens, and my heart!

	(Anonymous) 2008-04-08 16:00 (link)
	oh god. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	saygoodbye 2008-04-08 18:18 (link)
	yeah... grr! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	glaciercrow 2008-04-08 16:11 (link)
	Can't you make them private? Instead of pulling them down? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	saygoodbye 2008-04-08 18:19 (link)
	Some sure, but not all. It's part of my portfolio some of them. Just disgusts me that it's my SON you know? Just plain annoying and sick. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	madscientist 2008-04-09 08:27 (link)
	Wait.... so Flickr KNOWS about this perv (and those groups) and still does nothing about it aside from sending you a warning????? That's a little lax. (Reply to this) (Thread)