It's interesting to read this conversation about graffiti happening on a hacker forum, yet it seems stuck in a polarised stand-off around aesthetics and ownersh

It's interesting to read this conversation about graffiti happening on a hacker forum, yet it seems stuck in a polarised stand-off around aesthetics and ownership rights. That's a shame, because the root issues are in information warfare, the battle to control information spaces. To the extent The Internet is still considered a "public space"; Is spamming and trolling not a form of digital graffiti? Is the creation of products and apps that have a negative impact on society not a "narcissistic imposition"? Is the appropriation of the commons or other private property to spread messages (advertising or graffiti) not the same in the digital realm? And those who "clean up" graffiti... do we not call then "censors" or "like down/up-voting" when we wish to amplify or make other people's communications in the world disappear because we disagree with them? At the end of the day we are all still animals shouting to be heard the loudest in our jungle. Online or offline we're party to the same personality traits of quiet orderliness or disorganised expression. What happens in cyberspace hardly seems different from what happens IRL with spray-paint.