Re:San Francisco Graffiti
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @02:19AM
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>Your city probably has a free speech zone where protesting is allowed, which is far out of the way so those protests won't have an audience, but that is not where protests occur when they occur.
What a weird thing to say. I don't know whether you live in some totalitarian regime or assume that you do, but I don't. However, I can see it as means of protesting, an we can find examples of it in history and current day, but most graffiti out there is not that at all.
To be honest, most protesting is silly as well, go hang out in front of government buildings or go to a city council meeting to see for yourself, it's just as often legitimate grievances as it is nutballs ranting about aliens.
Graffiti is like protesting. The government likes to contain it and deny it and suppress it. Your city probably has a free speech zone where protesting is allowed, which is far out of the way so those protests won't have an audience, but that is not where protests occur when they occur.