• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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?

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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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      3 months 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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      3 months ago

      Seems like an opportunity for a bunch of street artists to show up at court and pull an “I’m Spartacus”.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.

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      3 months ago

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