New York To Dublin Video Portal (Unsurprisingly) Brings Out The Worst In People
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Nudity, drug use and hate symbols all made an appearance on the cross-continental screens, which were erected last week.
An attempt to connect people on both sides of the Atlantic has gone terribly awry after a pair of video portals linking New York and Dublin became the sites of pure debauchery.
Last week, a circular, eight-foot-wide screen weighing 3.5 tonnes was erected in each city, broadcasting live 24/7 video from New York’s Flatiron District to Dublin’s busy O’Connell Street, and vice versa.
The Big Apple’s chief public realm officer, Ya-Ting Liu, marveled at how “two amazing global cities” were “connected in real time and space” while Dublin’s lord mayor, Daithí de Róiste, said he hoped his citizens would “extend an Irish welcome and kindness to cities all over the world.”
But what the piece’s patron, Portals.org, said it hoped would be a “bridge to a united planet” quickly became scenes of chaos.
Those who visited the screens reported seeing several people flashing their private parts, while others openly did drugs, displayed swastikas and streamed pornography from their phones.
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