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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Banksy had it right:

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sounds like a statement I can get behind. I don't know who Banksy is, can you point me in the right direction?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You are about to have a great time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

He’s a street artist from the UK, his identity hasn’t been officially confirmed because he works with graffiti a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A long winded way of saying: Advertising shits in your head

Companies fill the space now with their hideous brands, waging the same frenzied battle as the jungle species in order to appropriate the public space and attention with images and words, like animals with their screams and piss’

~ Michel Serres