Pro-Life Billboard Updated to Better Reflect SF Values
While our eyes were all distracted by rainbows and orange clouds yesterday, some nefarious vandals in Bernal Heights hacked apart a creepy Christian billboard depicting John Legend about to eat a baby. The pro-vagina update? Much nicer, if I do say so myself.
[via Bernalwood]
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Awesome piece of culture hacking! I love my city.
There's a similar billboard at 16th and South Van Ness. Someone needs to take care of that one.
Personally I think more could be done by flipping the message in the other direction -- the "pro-life" people only seem to be concerned about abortion while intentionally ignoring the bigger picture.
I.e. keep the pro-life part, but make the photo have something to do with ending war, ending the death penalty, reducing violent crime, or improving access to health care, etc. etc.
+1
San Francisco: my free speech is sacred. People I don't agree with, not so much.
Um, isn't defacing a billboard a perfectly valid form of free speech as well? It's not like it's only "legitimate" free speech if someone is paying.
Seems more like a freedom of the press issue. Would you be justified hacking a news site if you didn't like their editorial policy?
That's pretty different territory, since unlike billboards, there's essentially no barrier to entry for running your own website. Hell, even I can do it.
People burning piles of books OK with you too? Since it's all free speech, in one way or another.
You're really stretching here, aren't you? Careful, you might get a hernia.
If they're your books, sure.
I'd say the billboard was 100% improved! Thank you, SF!
This is why I love it here
I'm pretty sure if this were done the other way around and pro-lifers "altered" a pro-choice billboard in SF there'd be an uproar. I frikkin love this city, and I'm not coming down on a political issue, but I do think this is one-sided tolerance. Buy your own sign, have a protest, wave a hanger... don't deface someone else's property.
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