Community | May 05, 2009 | 6 comments

Torture scenes in LEGO mock media self-censorship

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/legofesto/

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Abu-Ghraib, waterboarding torture, deadly G20 police aggression... these are all scenes we've come to know through the media, though not in a timely and urgent manner. They were all events that fell victim to media self-censorship. Eventually coverage of the abuses of power made their way into newspaper pages and tv screens, and the public was able to learn about these atrocities and demand for further investigation and prosecution.
In protest of what she calls an irresponsible refusal to publish graphic images of torture, Flickr user Legofesto recreates horrifying events in Lego. The use of toys to depict these scenes is simultaneously sanitizing and horrifying. What do you think of them?
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