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Re: Artist self censorship (Was Chinese net-censorship) Noise
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[email protected] (Anonymous) said:
>before taking
>a picture he usually asks himself about how this picture is percived,
something
>the he never thought twice before the FBI raid.
>
>Mr. Avon should think twice before commenting on self censorship does not
>exist, for that could be the difference from having the door kicked in by the
>black ninja turtles with the FBI or toning down your work.
OK. *THAT* might be interpreted, wrongly, as self-censorship. But words
have a *precise* meaning, which unfortunately, I sometimes miss in
the english language.
The opinion I wrote was in the *context* of the interaction of an artist with
a purchaser. In that context, what govern the events is consensuality:
everybody acts *uncoerced* to his best advantage.
In the case you cite, the *context* is very different.
But still, I would not call it "self-censorship". I do not have, on the top
of my head, any precise term for it, but maybe FUD, fear of physical violence,
survival tactics while harrassed by a thuggish assaulter, etc., would
apply...
I did not think twice, I thought about it several hundred times...
Your comment is *very* interesting. It point out how peoples can so
easily blank out contextual information.
Forgive my bias but I personnally makes a big distinction between the
volitional initiation of physical violence (or menace of) and other situations
where it is absent.
Regards!
JFA
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