Inappropriate acts included displaying swastikas, 9/11 images, and flashing breasts.
New York-Dublin livestream portal reopens after temporary shutdown due to inappropriate behavior.
Organizers implemented new measures such as reduced hours, guardrails, on-site security, and physical design features for crowd management.
The New York-Dublin portal, a livestream installation linking the two cities, reopened on Sunday after being temporarily shut down due to inappropriate behavior. The portal, which allows people to see and interact with each other virtually, has been a popular attraction since its launch earlier this month. However, some visitors engaged in offensive acts such as displaying swastikas and 9/11 images on the Irish side and flashing their breasts on the New York side. In response, organizers implemented new measures to prevent such behavior in the future.
The portal will now only be live from 6am to 4pm, with guardrails placed around it and screens blurred if a visitor obstructs the camera. The New York side will also have on-site security and more fencing and signage, while the Dublin side will have physical design features for crowd management.
Despite these incidents, organizers emphasized that most visitors have experienced joy and connectedness from the public art attraction. Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys created the artwork with a vision of bringing people together across borders.
The portal is located in Flatiron South Plaza in New York, between Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street. In Dublin, it can be found on O'Connell Street.
The Portal, a livestream installation linking New York and Dublin, reopened on Sunday after being shut down due to inappropriate behavior.
Portals.org founder Benediktas Gylys invited local communities to care about their portals and how other community members are approaching them.
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The portal received 500 million visitors in five days after opening.
OnlyFans creators flashed their breasts on the New York side.
Visitors had held up sickening images and swastikas on the Irish side.
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The article reports on the reopening of a livestream portal linking New York and Dublin after it was briefly shut down due to inappropriate behavior. The author does not commit any logical fallacies in their reporting. However, there are instances of inflammatory rhetoric used by individuals who engaged in the inappropriate behavior, which is reported but not endorsed by the author.
a woman baring her breasts to the portal
a man mooning the camera
someone at the Dublin portal holding up a photo of 9/11
others appeared to show themselves taking drugs or pretending to
The Portal, a large, round art installation designed to livestream video between the Flatiron district in Manhattan and a similar sculpture in Dublin was unveiled last week.
Videos on social media showed an OnlyFans model lifting her shirt in New York and people in Dublin displaying swastikas and images of the World Trade Center burning on Sept. 11, 2001 leading to the video feed between the two cities being shut down temporarily.
The reopening of the link remains uncertain with James Mettham, president of the Flatiron NoMad Partnership hoping for it to go on again ‘hopefully, for the weekend’.
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Videos on social media showed an OnlyFans model lifting her shirt in New York and people in Dublin displaying swastikas and images of the World Trade Center burning on Sept. 11, 2001
The reopening of the link remains uncertain with James Mettham, president of the Flatiron NoMad Partnership hoping for it to go on again 'hopefully, for the weekend''
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The article contains one instance of a dichotomous depiction. The author describes the Portal as an installation that would 'redefine the boundaries of artistic expression and connectivity.' Later in the article, it is described as having problems due to 'videos on social media showing an OnlyFans model lifting her shirt in New York and people in Dublin displaying swastikas and images of the World Trade Center burning on Sept. 11, 2001.' These two descriptions create a false dichotomy between the Portal as a symbol of artistic expression and connectivity versus a source of offensive content.
The Portal, a large, round art installation designed to livestream video between the Flatiron district in Manhattan and a similar sculpture in the center of Dublin, would ‘redefine the boundaries of artistic expression and connectivity,’ its promoters said when they unveiled it last week.
Later in the article, it is described as having problems due to 'videos on social media showing an OnlyFans model lifting her shirt in New York and people in Dublin displaying swastikas and images of the World Trade Center burning on Sept. 11, 2001.'
