Political cartoonist accuses NFT platforms OpenSea, rarible to be tools for political censorship-

during non-fungibe token (NFT) collector's pieces were very popular, NFTs brought a number of unique debates on the table, and one of them was censorship. The artist behind Stonetoss Comics, a number of political cartoons, was censored by two very well-known NFT marketplaces-Openea and Rarible. Stonetoss has informed the public on social media that the artist fears that these NFT platforms will be used as "tools for political censorship".

2 large NFT marketplaces are accused of political censorship

censorship of all kinds was detested by crypto in the early days, but nowadays censorship acts have slipped through the cracks. The The nature of Bitcoin and blockchain technology is advertised as a "censorship resistant" tools, and not fungible token (NFT)-assistance for things like Works of art, online creations, collectibles, virtual objects and more. However, while NFT marketplaces enable users to connect their wallets and to buy and sell NFT assets such as decentralized Exchange platforms (Dex platforms), the web portals that host NFTs are considered centralized in contrast to Dex applications. Although some dex applications of centralization and censorship too.

On November 22nd, the pseudonymous conservative caricaturist, known as " Steinwind " told the artist about censors Employees. "Hello OpenSea, I am changing because I fear that your platform will be co-opted as an instrument of political censorship. I also sent this message to your support page. My collector's community would like to have an answer", Stonetoss tweeted . Stone throw also also sent public relations to rarible also, since the NFT marketplace also the NFTS of the pseudonymen cartoonist prohibited.

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Flurks NFTS DE platform from OpenSea, Rarible

flurks nfts Support From conservative caricaturists Ben Garrison, internet-loving ricky berwick and the comedian sam hyde . This weekend the artist Stonetoss spoke to Bitcoin.com News and told our news desk about some of the grades that happened with the latest Stonetoss NFT collection.

"On November 20th, I and a team of me started selling 5,000 NFT works of art in connection with my work," explained Stonetoss to our news desk. "The project was entitled 'Flurks'. The project was a number of generative works of art in a similar style as the famous NFT projects" Bored Ape "and" Cryptopunks ". The official website of the project is flurksnft.com . Then the team was sold out to NFTs within 22 minutes. ”

"The project has collected a total of about 420 Ethereum, [and] This corresponds to about 1.8 million USD," Stonetoss continued. "As popular with NFTS, people immediately speculated about the [resale] price of the artwork on secondary sleeves such as OpenSea.io and Rarible.com (the two largest markets in the NFT area). Of course, the shocking sale time was a strong signal for high demand," said Stonetoss. The pseudonymous cartoonist added:

Within about six hours after the sale, the trading volume of the Flurks NFTS 100 Ethereum on OpenSea exceeded. At this point, Openea had apparently painted out of their platform for reasons unknown to us - which prevented further sales. Some time later we were also removed by rarible for unnamed reasons.

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Stonetoss said that Rarible listed the Flurks NFT collection the next day, but the collection was decoted again hours later. The artist does not know why Rarible took the NFTs twice from the list, but the cartoonist suspects political censorship.

"We believe that this de platforming is both on OpenSea and rarible attempts at political censorship. Since my work as a cartoonist is often political, I am regularly the goal of de-platform campaigns of those who disagree. In response, I have addressed Many of the claims against my work from those who want to deplate, ”said the caricaturist.

"In particular, I refuse to represent any kind of violent personal beliefs or to be associated with political extremism, such as being a 'Nazi'. I say that my work is not more dangerous than that of Dave Chappelle; jokes that some people do not want to hear," the artist remarked. The caricaturist added that the artist's team treated the complaints with his official contact with the platforms on Twitter and also respectfully marked the founders of Openea and Rarible.

"Despite the contact via their official support channels and on Twitter, we have not received an answer from OpenSea or Rarible why the DE platform occurred. We speculate that the reason for the fact that some of the NFT artworks in the set contain a flag of the Confederate as a random feature," Stonetoss told Bitcoin.com News. "As explained in the Twitter post, we also added pride flags, gadsden flags and a hammer-and-sichel shirt as characteristics. We believe that it is obvious in this context that adding a flag of the Confederate is no longer a fear of the Confederation, since a hammer-and-Sichel shirt is a fear of communism." The cartoonist added:

In fact, the flag of the Confederates is still used by some governments of the states in the United States. It seems that OpenSea and Rarible would prefer everything except to tackle the cause of the de-platform. Both platforms have branded themselves as places of artistic expression. In the official rarible discord channel, a Rarible employee insisted on pressing: "We are not just removing something because of his political views."

Stonetoss is "not ready to leave the censorship unchallenged"

The artist says that no official word of OpenSea and rarible was sent to the cartoonist team and the artist expects the problem that the problem is "quite embarrassing for a platform that is attached to itself as an art market".

"I personally have no doubt that Flurks will have a healthy secondary market, even if we have to build up our own platform," concluded Stonetoss. "This has already been known and successfully done by a project called 'Cryptophunks', a copy of 'cryptopunks'. As a conservative political caricatureist, I am not ready to let this censorship unchallenged. In fact, my reputation as an artist is that I can act in this censored environment."

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