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[–] 191 points 1 year ago (36 children)

It means Banksy, who has remained anonymous for more than 25 years, could finally be unmasked as he would be required to publicly disclose his name if brought to court.

Gonna be hard to bring them to court if you don’t even know their name, isn’t it?

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  • [–] 142 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    With the London surveillance apparatus, I bet they could figure out who Banksy is. It’d be an insane waste of time and resources, but I bet they could.

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  • [–] 223 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The fact that they're going to all this trouble over this image proves the point the image was making better than anything else possibly could have.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Exactly and the image is already out on the internet now.

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    Before and after they tried to remove it only to further bolster the message

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could always make them waste even more resources by adding noise to what little data they might have.
    I'm Spartacus Banksy!

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of people out there who know exactly who Banksy is. It’ll be like with The Stig, all the journalists knew who he was but the mystery was more interesting and sold more papers.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He has sold some of his work at auction, I'm guessing they didn't write a check to "Banksy".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Rumors (which are even on Wikipedia) say it's Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, who started as a graffiti artist. Bansky told interviewers that he was inspired by Del Naja.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I was trying to keep my identity a secret, I wouldn't say I was inspired by myself.

    And not even in reverse-psychology way, because then the interviewer would probably look up Del Naja and an immediately make the connection.

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