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Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won’t eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative. Say it on the Internet, and you’ll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed. Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content that’s controversial but otherwise legal. Service providers write their own rules for users worldwide and set foreign policy when they cooperate with regimes like China. They serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in handling disputes behind closed doors.

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Free Speech on the Web: Murky Rules, Personal Agendas

Yahoo-owned Flickr and Getty Images have inked a deal that could help photographers with pictures posted on the photo sharing site hook their work up with the largest media licensing company in the world. The effort, dubbed “The Flickr Collection on Getty Images” is the culmination of a longterm desire to create a way for consumers in the digital publishing industry to access photos on the site in way that respects the talent and rights of Flickr members. The partnership allows Getty editors to cull high-quality photos from Flickr and add them to its online catalog.

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Getty Images to Pay Amateur Photogs for Flickr’s Slickest Pix

Yahoo’s management ranks are rapidly thinning as the Internet pioneer fends off a shareholder mutiny threatening to culminate in the firing of chief executive Jerry Yang. Three more executives have decided to jump ship, according to reports published Thursday by two blogs — AllThingsD and TechCrunch — and The New York Times. The reports were based on unnamed people with knowledge of the departures. The latest defectors reportedly are Qi Lu, Brad Garlinghouse and Vish Makhijani.

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Yahoo Struggles to Turn Leaky Ship Around

Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have joined an exodus of senior Yahoo managers. Fake, who led the effort to create Brickhouse, Yahoo’s San Francisco-based startup incubator, will not be returning from maternity leave. Butterfield, her husband, who served as general manager of Flickr, will depart July 12. The couple, who founded the popular photo-sharing site together and sold it to Yahoo in March 2005, are the latest in a string of high-profile resignations that have coincided with the collapse of Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo.

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Flickr Founders Flee Yahoo

This week’s The Web Week in Review is a hodgepodge of news.

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The Web Week in Review