What Is DeviantArt Afraid Of?
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Ben Heine has been banned from deviantART permanently: KEEP ON DRAWING BEN!
Reactions to DeviantArt censorship to the Ben Heine's 'God is Love - Use Condom' shot.
Ben’s censored image is not questionable in any way by a rational mind. His statement is obvious concerning the Catholic Pope’s recent ridiculous statements about condom use in Africa. Unfortunately, the Pope has ever right to make dangerous and misleading statements but it is also an artist’s right to respond.
Banning users like Ben based on your subjectivity is nothing else than a violent act. I know Ben, and he is constantly defending human rights, defending life, and that´s why I invited him to support the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, and he immediately accepted, he is there in the list beside many other personalities.
Willem Rasing after Ben's God is Love
The editorial board of ZIKISON - Satire & Humor expresses bitterness and frustration concerning the suspension of Ben Heine DeviantArt's account, which he has been using for the past two years. Ben is a Zikison correspondent and associate author from Belgium. This suspension of his DA account has happened following a post with an illustration showing a crucified Jesus wearing a condom. We are speechless and appalled by this censorship. BIG BROTHER seems to exist in democratic countries such as The United States of America, and particularly in one of these liberal states, CALIFORNIA, where DeviantArt is based! Be careful, dear readers. Maybe right now, while you are reading this, BIG BROTHER is watching you.
Ben is a great artist, cartoonist and illustrator. He can be (this is part of his work) highly provoking, but he never lacks of touch, elegance and style. To ban his artistic works as they were pornographic is highly offensive for the artist and for all of those who like and can fully appreciate his work.
And, with this, as a surplus, all us deviants and DA lose one of the most reknown modern illustrators and won't be able to see his works here anymore? I wonder where the meanings of "deviant" and "art" are, right now.
Ok, Whatever we accept the concept of his art or not, DA has to respect everyone's right to express his thoughts using their Art. And they have to stop the double standards they're doing here.
on 07-04-2009 By Nat Röfu - Political comics
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Hello Marco,
yes it's horrible, I feel very frustrated, but I'll find a way...
Thank you!
The work of the last years were on the DeviantArt Ben.
It is everything still there, on server in Californa. Locked, imprisoned, cause the authartic terms of service of the DA.
So wrote me Ben:
'Thanks for the info, Marco,
do you think all my creations will be deleted one after the other or will rather remain forever as you suggest?'
Ben
I think the discussion worth to be public so I post below my answer:
'I don't know,
the point is that the user don't even have the right to know.
the web is not so democratic as we can imagine. We are all slave of
term of services - that we don't care to read nor written in a
partecipative way.
All your work, but I stress, all of the people linked to it, can disappear.
Even my artilces can be deleted one day or imprisoned in a server somewhere.'
Marco
THANKS TO ENJOY MY SITE.