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The Internet Still Works: SmugMug Powers Online Photography

Electronic Frontier Foundation·Deeplinks Blog by Rory Mir | April 28, 2026·about 1 month ago
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SmugMug is a family-owned photo hosting and e-commerce platform that helps professional photographers run their businesses online. Founded in 2002, the company provides tools for photographers to show their work, deliver client galleries, sell prints, and manage payments.  In 2018, SmugMug purchased Flickr, the long-running photo-sharing community, which added tens of millions of active hobbyist photographers to the company’s user base.  Ben MacAskill is President and COO of SmugMug’s parent company, Awesome, which he co-founded with his family. Awesome also includes the media network This Week in Photo and the nonprofit Flickr Foundation, which focuses on preserving publicly available photography. MacAskill has been an active voice in policy discussions around Section 230 and online platform regulation.  He was interviewed by   Joe Mullin , a policy analyst on EFF's Activism Team.…

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