‘Personally, I Saw Nothing Wrong With It’: Ian Borg Is Pretty Chill About Moviment Graffitti Using His Face As A Mask
Malta’s Transport Minister has opened up about how he feels about his face being used as a student’s mask during Fresher’s Week – and he really isn’t mad.
“I agree with freedom of expression and personally I didn’t see anything wrong with it,” Ian Borg told Lovin Malta. “When they had come with drums outside the Ministry I went down to speak to them and invited them inside to sit down and listen to them. This is the best way of being effective in my opinion.”
His comments come after a student from protest group Moviment Graffitti’s stand at the University of Malta’s Fresher’s Week was stopped from wearing a tower mask that featured the faces of Transport Minister Ian Borg as well as Malta Developer’s Association Sandro Chetcuti.
The removal of the mask by University security guards has been condemned widely as a form of censorship – though the University itself said that it believed Fresher’s Week is not the place for a ‘political debate’.
Moviment Graffitti has since posted an image hinting at more masks to come following the University’s confiscation.
In reaction to this, Ian Borg said: “students should be allowed to make as many masks as they want, of whomever they want.”
What do you think of the mask controversy that happened on the first day of Fresher’s Week?
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