Earlier today, a hacker struck the website ‘meerdaneennaam.be’, on which the public can vote for possible new names for the Voo? Out arts center. The arts center only allows the public to choose between Pallas and Volxus, but the hacker has now added a third option: ‘De Vooruit’.
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‘The “The” that we place in front of the original name emphasizes once again how unique this culture house is,’ it read. ‘In this name we hear’ from ‘and’ for us ‘.’ The signatory calls himself ‘a well-meaning hacker’. A quick check showed that you could indeed vote for it.
“It’s not a joke, we have really been hacked,” says Franky Devos, coordinator of Voo? He repeats that a return to the old name for the arts center is impossible.
Meanwhile, Voo? Has nullified the hacking and removed the third option.
Question mark
The Ghent arts center has put a question mark in its own name after the political party SP.A renamed itself Vooruit. Devos already explained to the newspaper that he finds it unworkable to keep the same name as the partybecause there would be too much confusion. ‘It is as if you were saying: the new performance by Lisbeth Gruwez will be playing in the CD&V hall tonight.’
The fact that the SP.A has taken the name Vooruit from the arts center without prior consultation, the party came under considerable criticism. But there are also rumors that claim that there was a substantial financial compensation. Devos cannot confirm or deny this upon inquiry.
Where the wrath of the Gentenaars initially focused on the demarche of Conner Rousseau, criticism now seems to focus more and more on the arts center itself. Among others, Olivier Tjon, who organized events in the Vooruit for 25 years, such as Poplife and Goodlife, suggested yesterday in The standard already for a third option in the poll. ‘If you do let the public speak, you also have to be prepared not to change your name.’ Tjon denies having anything to do with the hacking. At the arts center, people are still in the dark about who is behind the hack.
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