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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago

Banksy could be unmasked as police probe 'criminal damage' over Royal Courts of Justice artwork

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Banksy could be unmasked as police probe 'criminal damage' over Royal Courts of Justice artwork

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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago
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Police have launched an investigation into a new Banksy artwork depicting a judge attacking a protestor with a gavel.
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    With the London surveillance apparatus, I bet they could figure out who Banksy is. It’d be an insane waste of time and resources, but I bet they could.

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      i don’t think it’d be that many resources. that’s why they put up the surveillance in the first place. so its easy to find anyone and no one can easily hide.

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      The fact that they’re going to all this trouble over this image proves the point the image was making better than anything else possibly could have.

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        Streisand Effect to the max.

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        Exactly and the image is already out on the internet now.

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          Link?

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            Before and after they tried to remove it only to further bolster the message

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              That is amazing. I love it when cesorship fucks its own ass lol.

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              The shadow of the Hiroshima resident seated on the Sumitomo bank steps.

              Hiroshima shadows

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              Honestly, they inadvertently made it better, and certainly made it more poignant

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              It’s almost like it was Banksy’s plan all along because the removed artwork looks just as powerful as the full artwork.

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              Do you think it was intentional with the choice of paint, or did the person removing it intentionally scrub just the silhouette?

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                Looks like possible malicious compliance by the cleaning crew.

                I know it’s what I’d do at least.

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            This was the best I could find without people in it when it first went up:

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        If artwork is a threat to your system…

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        but, BUT, MUH LAW AND ORDER

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      Could always make them waste even more resources by adding noise to what little data they might have.
      I’m Spartacus Banksy!

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        I’M BANKSY!

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          I’m Banksy and so is my wife!

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            I saw my dog with a stencil yesterday. Maybe he’s Banksy.

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              Mine peed on a wall today. Maybe Banksy is a team?

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      Does he still install them himself? Isn’t it likely he sent someone to do it for him?

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        Couldn’t tell ya, but that’s certainly plausible.

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        They have done both.

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      Finally all that money they’re giving to antichrist speaker Peter Thiel going to good use

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