[spectre] Re: Artreview: Important message regarding (the censorship of) user content

[Garrett Lynch]

I have started a petition about this to gauge interest and if  
significant enough present to Artreview.  If you are a member of the  
Artreview community, use the site, read the magazine or feel that this  
is yet another example of creative expression suppressed online then  
please sign the petition here:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/artreview-isp-censorship/

and forward to lists, family, friends, colleagues etc.

Garrett


On 6 Sep 2011, at 23:59, Vera Frenkel wrote:

> To those in charge at ArtReview.com,
>
> This is to say I agree with Garrett Lynch's comments.  I hope that  
> your investigation of the complaints will result in a robust defense  
> of the artists' rights to choose their modes of expression and that  
> unless the works involved are clearly racist or vicious in some  
> contagious way, that you protect your constituency.
>
> Vera Frenkel
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Garrett Lynch <lists at asquare.org>  
> wrote:
> Strike one more for creative expression online.
>
> Not sure how many people here use the artreview community but this  
> may be of interest.  This is poor form that they are allowing an ISP  
> provider to dictate what is acceptable art but surprising that they  
> did not predict issues like this with community growth.  There are  
> many art friendly providers out there and rather than censor a  
> blossoming community they should migrate to another ISP.  Note that  
> art review have provided no means of replying to the message ether  
> directly in their email or on their website (no email contact is  
> provided on the website).
>
> Garrett
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> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "artreview.com" <mail at artreview.com>
>> Date: 6 September 2011 11:18:43 GMT+01:00
>> To: "garrett at asquare.org" <garrett at asquare.org>
>> Subject: Important message regarding user content
>> Reply-To: do-not-reply at artreview.com
>>
>>
>> artreview.com
>> Contemporary artists & photography | Online Art Magazine | ArtReview
>> A message to all members of artreview.com
>>
>> Dear artreview.com community,
>>
>> ArtReview has recently received several complaints about content on  
>> artreview.com from our website platform provider. The complaints  
>> concern nudity and related content on members’ pages that breach  
>> conditions set by the platform provider. They have been accompanied  
>> by demands that we remove relevant content immediately; failure to  
>> do so could result in the website being taken offline. As we  
>> investigate these complaints over the next several days, we will  
>> likely be removing some content from the website, including from  
>> members’ pages. We thank you for your understanding. We will get  
>> back to you once we have looked into the situation in more detail.
>>
>> ARTREVIEW.COM
>>
>> Visit artreview.com at: http://www.artreview.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
>>
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