[knaekhoved]

My moral belief is that being blasted with blinding amounts of light amounts to trespass and/or assault, and fully justifies a forceful response against the source of aggression (namely, the billboard). Obviously this is not going to be accepted as a legal argument, but if I'm not worried about the legal repercussions, I feel more than justified in taking matters into my own hands - for example, by cutting power to fixed billboards or by damaging vehicle-mounted billboards when sufficiently low-legal-risk.

There may or may not be groups of people doing this already and posting about it in certain venues...

[cwkoss]

Would be pretty dank and cyberpunk if someone built an onion-service ADsassination market, where you could put bounties on ugly public-space ads and a decentralized network of spraypaint-drone operators could deface those ads to earn crypto.

[neilv]

* That does sound cyberpunk techno-corporatist-lawless dystopian, but what I think would be infinitely more awesome is getting government regulations and human sentiment all aligned with not having ads in public spaces.

* Recent HN discussion about the infamous AP writings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32790951

[danuker]

> getting government regulations and human sentiment all aligned with not having ads in public spaces.

Money is speech in the US. And corporations have more of it than their advertisement recipients, which is why we see ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo

[hypertele-Xii]

And corporations get their money from customers, so the solution is simple: Buy brands you don't recognize.

[eastbound]

Bounties for citizenly public actions. But how do you prove it’s you?

Maybe book a time slot. If the light disappears in this time slot, you get the bounty.

[LordDragonfang]

That's basically the premise, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market

[dymk]

Spraypaint a private key (or any unique symbol, really) to prove you did it.

[codalan]

Would need to be an agreed-upon message encrypted with the vandal's private key.

1. Person wanting defacement would indicate the amount for the bounty, along with the message to be posted on the defaced property

2. Vandal contacts payer and agrees to conditions. He/she also gives the client their public key

3. Vandal performs defacement, then add the specified message to it, encrypted in his or her private key

4. Vandal notifies the person paying the bounty that the job is complete, sending him/her a picture of the defacement with encrypted message

4. Payer decrypts message, verifies it matches, then pays out the agreed upon bounty to the vandal

[hypertele-Xii]

Cryptotags.

To be honest, that's what spray tags look like to me already, random, meaningless, unique. I've photographed hundreds of tags and have never seen two alike.

Now, hacking the ad screen with a virus that displays a unique artwork... that'd be cool.

[cwkoss]

I'm hoping the defacement would be more contextual and sardonic, like devil horns on people or changing Coca Cola to Cloaca

Privkey QRs would be a bit ugly

[knaekhoved]

I recently saw a giant plush coca-cola can with the text changed to "cloaca" in some guy's car. Is that a known joke? I thought it was pretty funny