As usual one of my morning tasks is to find 10 images, photo, gifs videos each day and select them and explain to Madam why I have chosen them.
These images may be chosen as they are a turn on, erotic, fit with the FLR lifestyle, something that we have discussed or even just because I like the look of it – in the pasted I selected everything from BDSM images through to a landscape photo of part of the Lake district that I though would be nice for us to visit.
So long as I can explain or give a reason why I’ve selected the image and how it would be of interest to Madam, our lifestyle and me is fine. (a poor reason may result in an addition comment to my performance review).
One of the often used sources is Pintrest, it is a good source of all sorts of images but it can be a real twat when it comes to it’s moral code on porn, erotica etc. I regularly have had pins deleted, I’ve had boards deleted but when the account has been threatened I’ve been given warning and then self purged the images (down load to my hard drive).
The majority of these images are D/s, FLR and sissy related, but the bizarre ones have been that the couple of history folders that I’ve had have also been deleted. My Grandad served in the Army during WW2 and I would have a folder of WW2 images relating to the British Army that I used for research into his career and another that looked at the History of the Midlands during the Victorian period (Hey everyone needs a hobby and this FLR is a lifestyle not just for fun!!!) and both those folders get regular deletions.
Well having gone to pick some images this morning I found that our account had been suspended, no warnings, no indication, the last time we had an image removed was in July and since then loads of recommendations from Pintrest (some I thought might be a bit too risky) and then bang! account suspended.
while I have put in an appeal we’ll see where this goes, the suspicious bastard part of me does note that this is almost 2 years to the day that we had the WordPress Blog deleted – is September the month of the Censor?
I’m quite glad that we have reopened our Flickr account recently as I’m getting a bit tired of this battle with sites such as Pintrest, Tumblr and others. we opened a twitter account as that seemed to be where a lot of Tumblr refugees went to, but it does seem that there is less and less places to go and far more restrictions, I do wonder about this censorship, where will it end? and what will be end result?
I keep politics out of our blog, we have blog friends who have very different views from us and that is a great and healthy thing to have in society, and different views should be allowed in areas of sex, religion, race and culture. If you try and remove some of these views to start to develop 1984 types of “group think” and that creates people that become herd animals and some that get pushed to the extreme edges and for the majority that are pushed to the edges they are actually mainstream people who just won’t conform to the herd. It doesn’t make them extreme just bloodly different but the risk is that they will be classed as extreme by the “Herd”.
There are new puritans out there and I worry that their view of the worlds will impact on more of us, God forbid that “dare to be different” becomes a battle cry for some and a crime for others.
well I’ll finish now as Madam will be home shortly and I need to make sure that I have her bath run and a glass of wine ready.
G’Night all, and mind how you go……
billie xxx
Hi Billie,
i hear your cry of annoyance. i have had a pinterest account suspended in the past (they did not like the chastity folder and its images one bit). i gave up for a bit but then recreated another which, touch wood, they seem not bothered about. The new one is more family-friendly though but that is also because there are family members who i know look at it so i have to self-censor a bit too :). Though what they make of my interest in lingerie, dresses, short female hairstyles etc i will leave to them 🙂
i think these things go in waves and if you look at other aspects of society people have become much more accepting of other lifestyles which were once shunned or scorned, which is welcome.
i still think society has yet to work out what to do with the internet and big data and how to manage and 'police' it – i do feel it needs a level of policing, just look at the abuse associated with data science and Brexit and Trump and how that played out on social media. It took a while for society to reach a sort-of healthy balance of freedom of press/censorship following the invention of the printing press all those centuries ago and i think we are having to re-learn a lot with the new communication tools of today.
What really fucks me off though when it comes to the censoring of images is that people are all to happy getting on their moral high horses about images that show things as harmless and natural as nudity or aspects of people sexuality but seem on the other hand to have no problem at all with content that shows extreme violence. i have always felt that is where the real double standard lies and that goes back a long old time.
Anyway, good to hear you ranting. Rants are needed occasionally. Trust that all good with you though aside from that?
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