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.
How about the entire society designed to be unlivable without a car ?
Look, there’s a solution we’re not seeing here. Every fuel pump is also secretly a flame thrower. It can be used to put the nasty attention stealing machine in its rightful place, the middle of a fire.
There are only 2 gas stations in my town that don’t have these obnoxious ass pumps and both of them are on the other side of town where I’m most likely to get stabbed by a used heroin needle for my shoes.
One of my most upvoted comments in lemmy is me saying I should be allowed to smash those screens if they play ads.
Your function is to pump my fucking gas if you do anything more than that fuck off
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.
– Banksy
Nobody is forcing you to use their pumps.
How about the entire society designed to be unlivable without a car ? Look, there’s a solution we’re not seeing here. Every fuel pump is also secretly a flame thrower. It can be used to put the nasty attention stealing machine in its rightful place, the middle of a fire.
If everybody starts doing it (and trust me they will, it’s free money after all) we’ll be kinda forced to.
only if people don’t care enough to do anything about it.
There are only 2 gas stations in my town that don’t have these obnoxious ass pumps and both of them are on the other side of town where I’m most likely to get stabbed by a used heroin needle for my shoes.
So yeah I’d say I’m being damn near forced.