MCLC: Ai Weiwei Gangnam style (2,3)

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Stanley Seiden <stanley.seiden at gmail.com>
Subject: Ai Weiwei Gangnam style (2)
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Some online media sources that have picked this video up ascribe it to Ai
Weiwei "just having fun," which I think he's definitely entitled to after
all of the grief he suffers in the course of his regular work.  The only
question that remains is why it was posted online at all?  Then again,
self-indulgent video posting is a (if not the) hallmark of youtube.com
<http://youtube.com/>, so perhaps we shouldn't be holding Ai to a
different standard.

-Stan

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From: Keijser, A.S. <A.S.Keijser at hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Ai Weiwei Gangnam style (3)

There is the little matter of the handcuffs... The video was placed
online yesterday on both Youtube, Tudou, Youku, etc. On Youku and Tudou
the video stayed online for a couple of hours before it was taken down.

cf.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/25/entertainment-us-china-aiweiwe
i-gangnam-idUSBRE89O0H120121025

Anne Keijser