So leaving alone if it's ok to deface a work of art because you 'own' a copy and disagree with the artist's creative vision how do you stop it? 80 / 20 rule says you can't. What can you do for 20% of the effort? All of the above? Coordinate the Internet community until ... I saw a bunny! This is a great start, more tea Vicar?
]]>Having said that I kinda empathise with the concern about drawing attention to a product that is of primary interest to bible-belt theocrats.
I agree this is bowdlerist bullshit, I have never got my head around American prudishness, how can you understand a country that popularised motherfucker but finds cunt distasteful? (thank you Billy)
Is there truly a risk of this establishing a significant precedent? I agree that the US legal system runs on money and that the hallelujah set have plenty of it but at some point reality bites.
Never stand between a publisher and a dollar and dammit Charlie you sell.
If push advertising starts to become a significantly annoying paradigm then some clever fucker out there (you know who you are) will develop a way around it and tap that market.
Don't get me wrong, I'm dead against it but surely all that a challenge through the courts does is enrich the scum lawyers and give the purveyors oxygen. One could simply wait, if this goes on the middle west will be an ignorant backwater ruled by a theocracy(Bob gets it right again) that will be irrelevant to the great publishing houses of Asia.
Also sad to hear Cory's view. Censorship not the same as free speech. Censorship imposes your views on others, free speech allows others to hear them and make up their own minds. Sorry but category error there I think. If you don't like the artwork, don't buy the artwork, don't look at the artwork. Insisting that others should only see the artwork after it has been mutilated to suit a narrow view of the world is so seriously wrong it gives me the willies the same way as the destruction of important historical artefacts by extremists. And as for "editing" important historical texts so as not to give offence - bullshit! It may be painful but if you can't stand the blowtorch of reality then I have a nice pair of rose coloured glasses I'd like too sell you, mind careful you don't trip over that little red wagon & break your neck. History ... lessons .. repeat! Of course its painful, of course it raises moral outrage, it should, you just can't bubble wrap some of this stuff, that's it's lesson.
Damm, too much for a first time?
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