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Gallery Owner Arrested After Placing Spoon Sculpture at Purdue Pharma (2018)

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I wonder why he's being charged with "interfering with police"? From the article:

"The interactions between Alvarez and police were cordial. While waiting to issue the summons, the gallerist and the cops chatted amiably about civic matters and the opioid epidemic."

It's not a surprise to me. The police primarily exist to protect the property and lives of the powerful.

You might find this interesting, where a lawyer explains why should never say a single word to the police, under any circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

That's his problem: you DON'T talk to cops.

Alas, if you have enough money the government won’t look twice. However, mess with the money buying government officials and you WILL go to jail.

Assange on one side and Sackler family on the other.

Eventually, the people rise up and separate the heads from the bodies of the Marie Antoinettes.

Using art in this way is especially effective since the owners of Purdue pharma are large patrons of the arts. It should become more difficult for the art-world to hold their noses while taking the money.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/26/18282383/sackle...

This is some good quality civil disobedience.

There's some concern about the charges but "criminal misdemeanor" seems pretty on the ball here. It's not good civil obedience without some risk of a misdemeanor.

I’m normally pretty in support of free speech. But this here is pretty straightforward, the person put a large object in a commonly used path. If I did a similar thing at a local school, library or gun manufacturer, I probably would face similar repercussions.

Add 2018 to the title please.

I hope to see a follow up article in a few days about a flash mod dumping piles of spoons next.

Actual followup article is here:

A giant sculpture of a bent, burnt heroin spoon, which was illegally unloaded in front of the Stamford headquarters of Purdue Pharma in June [2018], was placed temporarily in front of the Massachusetts State House on Friday and given as a gift to the state’s Attorney General Maura T. Healey to thank her for her leadership in the state’s fight against opioid addiction.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-giant-heroi...

2018

I wonder how to show went

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It’s not the GDPR’s fault if their (apparently) award-winning journalism comes with stalking.

It doesn’t specify the award so it could have been anything, like the Big Brother privacy invasion award.

All websites collect data on visitors. They don't want to expose themselves to the risk of being fined by the EU for not following their detailed regulations, when they have very few customers from there. It doesn't necessarily mean they're doing anything beyond what most websites in the EU are doing.

sites don’t need to collect data. it’s a choice which comes with a cost

sites also don't need to be prohibited from collecting data, that too is a choice with a cost as shown here.

Disagreed.

You are allowed to invite your friends home and interact with them without having to keep a mandatory spying device in your house to record the interaction.

Why should spying be allowed when you make a web search or click on a link?

Whats spying? In this situation they are merely recording signals that your device is sending to them. If you don't like the operator having the information contained within or inferred by those signals simply don't send them. Many plugins and browsers exist for that sole purpose.

> merely recording signals that your device is sending to them

They are not just recording the signals your device sends them to retrieve the page. They are serving pieces of malware (ads) that cause your device to fingerprint itself and then send back more signals containing personal data.

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