Heroism and RebellionMain MenuBritta Harbury3631b1c9a48317b3d2cc93cba052520d6ee29313Iris Wilcoxfaf35ff3faa4d299d5419b8f9715465af6de6795Harrison Bloom6a48b3c447d788abdc08e283b93b9758579b23d9
The Great Firewall
12017-11-14T21:24:11-08:00Britta Harbury3631b1c9a48317b3d2cc93cba052520d6ee29313254562Vance's father criticizes Vance for using his computer skills to look at porn and not engage in more meaningful activities. Art by Wenqing Yan, https://yuumei.deviantart.com/plain2017-11-14T21:26:08-08:00Britta Harbury3631b1c9a48317b3d2cc93cba052520d6ee29313
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12017-11-14T17:58:23-08:00The World Wide Web7Britta Harburyplain2017-11-19T19:17:54-08:00Fisheye Placebo takes place in a parallel world where everything is done online. Society is separated into a rigid class system. The comic even references a literal wall that was once put up in between the slums and the city. Although the wall is officially "taken down", large chunks of the wall still remain, literally and figuratively segregating the rich and the poor.
Within the world of the wealthy, most things of interest happen on the internet. The government has The Great Firewall, a massive blocker on all things "very violent and/or very erotic". In reality, it means that all dissenting political opinions are blocked from the public. Many citizens possess the ability to get around the system, but most of them spend their time on menial things instead of the blatant censorship endemic to their society. Vance is the perfect example of the complacent citizen - he can scale The Great Firewall, but he spends all his time looking at porn. He lives his life on the dark corners of the internet, but spends all his time on petty things.
