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"With their bold ongoing project, Grey Area, Irish collective SUBSET are protesting the criminalisation and censorship of street art."

That's all fine and good if you can paint fancy murals like that. My city is covered it street art, and it's all just kids boringly writing their tags.

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St. Petersburg (FL) used to be like that, but business owners started working with artists, and then more and more businesses did the same.

https://stpetemuraltour.com/photo-wall/

You mean voluntary collaboration between property owners and artists, creating mutually beneficial arrangements (artists get paid to do what they love, the quality of the work improves) instead of regulation and criminalisation was the better answer? Who would have thought.

If anything the state could incentivize certain property owners to allow their alleyways or other areas to allow graffiti. Since the artists aren't going to stop... so you might as well create positive environments for them.

...Just like drugs.

I'm sorry graffiti hasn't been gentrified in your neighborhood yet. Maybe a stern TED talk might change minds.

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