Let's Use Free Speech to Exalt Crystal Meth
Artist: Andrew Bushard
Year: 2024
Date of Action: 05/01/24
Region: North America
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Electronic Media, Internet, Literature
Confronting Bodies: Draft2Digital
Description of Artwork: Crystal meth will nourish your body. Crystal meth will free your mind. Crystal meth will save your soul. This poetry chapbook will show you how. 26 pages; 25 poems.
The Incident: Draft2Digital emailed Free Press Media Press Inc. informing Free Press Media Press Inc. that it did not like the company's AI translations, thus it was permanently suspending the account.
Free Press Media Press Inc. submitted a Better Business Bureau complaint. Draft2Digital responded with among others things, a claim that it objected the "harmful content" of Let's Use Free Speech to Exalt Crystal Meth. Never before this date did Draft2Digital object to Let's Use Free Speech to Exalt Crystal Meth, so Free Press Media Press Inc. is interpreting this as an ad hoc attempt to justify the account suspension. Hence it appears to be ad hoc censorship.
Results of Incident: Free Press Media Press Inc. and Draft2Digital are negotiating this through the Better Business Bureau.
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