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Lego Torture Scenes Protest Media Censorship


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Rycona
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PostPosted: May 04 2009 10:19 am Reply with quote Back to top

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2009/05/gallery_lego_torture

Wired wrote:
A few weeks ago, the Obama administration released controversial memos from the Justice Department describing torturous techniques used by CIA agents while interrogating terror suspects. Since then, media and news outlets have been saturated in moral discussions: Should the CIA have tortured the detainees? Should Obama have released the memos?

But few have questioned the media's self-censorship in reporting on these techniques while they were in use.

Flickr user Legofesto (who prefers to remain anonymous) was fed up with news outlets refusing to publish images depicting torture due to their graphic nature. So he recreated the images and first-hand accounts using Legos to protest what he saw as irresponsible censorship.

The use of children's toys is at once sanitizing and horrifying and many of the images have received thousands of views. We post selections from Legofesto's series here as a gallery, accompanied by remarks from the artist.


Weird and interesting. I hate how sometimes media censorship is more about someone's agenda than just shocking the viewer.


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Blackout
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PostPosted: May 04 2009 04:10 pm Reply with quote Back to top

This the same person that made the Lego Auschwitz? Confused



 
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SoldierHawk
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PostPosted: May 04 2009 04:55 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Rycona wrote:


Weird and interesting. I hate how sometimes media censorship is more about someone's agenda than just shocking the viewer.


Seconded. They don't censor pictures of the Holocaust (speaking of Auschwitz), and I see no reason why they should censor this. I mean yeah, don't put them in Saturday morning cartoons obviously, but they should be available (and not hard to find) for people who want to see firsthand and make their own judgments about what happened.

On the specific topic, I think the guy is cool for drawing attention this way. Plus, I gotta say, its kind of creative. If weird.


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: May 04 2009 09:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
This the same person that made the Lego Auschwitz? Confused

Zbigniew Libera is from Poland so I doubt he'd be quite as interested.


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