Should cities be in the business of drawing lines in the sand between what is free speech and what is not?
Or should the public — the community of citizenry — be the overlord of deciding what is and what is not acceptable conduct in the public square?
Continue reading → The Community of Citizenry and City Censorship
Yesterday, in my WordPunk article — Built for Beautiful Failing — I wondered if Art hates or heals. Yesterday, in the New York Times, I received a reply to my query in a story concerning an Art display in a vacant Midtown store: “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama.”
There is no greater threat to freedom than censorship that pretends to be randomized or accidental. The internet is a wonky, unstable, place filled with wires and tubes and fragile connections.
When you create art, or when you write something, you always risk offending someone somewhere.
We love the Google and we are especially fond of the Google Cache feature that can salvage your work on the web that goes missing, is deleted, or is censored.
We recently found one of our Urban Semiotic articles was missing from publication.
As we live and die and publish and perish on the web together, it is never a delight to be told your work is suddenly missing from publication.
I was informed yesterday that my article, “Urban Semiotic Articles Deleted from Google?” had gone missing from my Urban Semiotic blog hosted on WordPress.com.
Continue reading → WordPress Censorship or Technical Glitch?
It’s always disappointing when a writer has their work censored by an editor. One should always be wary of publishers that value editors more than authors.
How do you handle the wants and desires of an editor with an obvious internal agenda who wishes to wound and harm the project with false self-elevation, political correctitude and sanctimonious righteousness?
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