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by mmooss 181 days ago
Property rights are not absolute (except when powerful people have property and want somethign).

> I just think there are things more important than art.

Sure, nothing is absolutely important, but what's the higher priority here?

> It’s worse than advertisement: at least ads are bland and repetitive, you can easily filter them out.

... that you can 'easily filter them out'? (Ads are generally far larger, well-lit, more prominent and designed to be hard to filter.)

> That’s the positive side of living in a democracy: we shouldn’t need to trust that rogue public demostrations, due to the central limit theorem or something, converge on the public sentiment. We have elections for that.

A side of living in democracy is that free expression is restricted to voting? ???