Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained for 81 days without trial, had his passport confiscated for four years, so he knows a thing or two about censorship. But the latest onslaught on his artistic creativity has not come from the Chinese state, but the Danish toymaker Lego. The company has refused to sell its produce in bulkt ot he polemical artist, for him to use in his art, saying it cannot endorse 'the use of Lego bricks in projects or contexts of a political agenda'. Ai has accused Lego of 'censorship and discrimination'. Comrades around the world are uniting in offering Ai their own collections of plastic bricks. Some Western critics meanwhile, are accusing Ai of hyperbole and conformism to anti-capitalist stereotypes.
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