Sounds like it. I’ve been following a thread from Thomas Hawk on his Flickr profile for the past month or so on actions by Flickr to censor comments on discussion threads and certain photos because of blog.

Yahoo! seem to have mis-stepped on this issue fairly significantly. But it also highlights one of the risks of using third-party social media sites to host your content - you are agreeing to the terms of service, and those terms may not be as open as you’d like.

That isn’t to say you shouldn’t take advantage of such sites to further your cause or simply to share your personal photos. But, as with all such things, “free” doesn’t necessarily mean free.

Update: Priscilla chimes in, and mentions the Against Censorship Flickr group which I neglected to post.