Wednesday, April 9, 2014

A 'Human Face' For Drone Operators To See

A drone's view of the huge poster placed in northwest Pakistan by Not a Bug Splat (Not a Bug Splat)

For Shame: The Giant Poster That Shows Drone Pilots the People They're Bombing -- Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic

Not just a pixel on a screen

A new project, initiated by a collective of artists from around the world including the French JR, has tried to reach the people pulling the trigger in America's drone wars—the drone operators themselves.

It’s called “Not A Bug Splat,” and its gets its name from the term drone operators use for a successful “kill,” because—in the pixelated grayscale of the drone camera—ending a human life looks like squashing a bug.

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My Comment: Sorry .... but this will not stop the U.S. from conducting drone strikes.

1 comment:

  1. I see the human rights brigade is at it again, as always. Whenever terrorist rights need to be protected, got these bunch of wacko's doing their thing.

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