I’ll agree with that, Tom. It strikes me as the social media team jumping at a chance to
go viral - which in fairness is sort of their job. It sucks that these kinds of roles can
be as unintentionally dickish as in this case.
Joe
On 11 August 2014 at 12:01:38 am, Tom Morris (tom(a)tommorris.org) wrote:
Thomas Morton wrote:
I find this a bit distasteful, rather akin to rubbing
it in the
photographers face.
Its fine to take a stand on a point of copyright.
But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we want
to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather than
trollish.
Agreed. It is rather tacky, juvenile and slightly unpleasant. Be
magnanimous in victory and all that. It'd be nice to know who thought
"take a photo with the monkey selfie" was a useful and productive piece
of free culture activism. Because it just makes us look like mean jerks.
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