> This is the same for a lot of supposed “theft” by museums.
Not to mention that in many countries art pieces predating a certain era are simply destroyed (on the ground that they're older than a particular religion).
And most of the pharaohs' tombs were pillaged and unique pieces were melt by actual thiefs for their gold.
These evil, evil, museums displaying these around the world for any visitor to see when you think these could have been melt for gold by thieves or simply destroyed because they were impure!
Evil western civilization. That western civilization is so evil it must be replaced!
Western societies took advantage of multiple other societies to plunder their treasures. Those same societies didn't have the infrastructure and/or care to preserve these things themselves.
Not necessarily true- the majority of people don't know about 3-2-1 backup strategy and I've seen hundreds of "help! my { phone | SD card | computer } died and I lost all my family photos" posts
Conservation or not, that TV has been given out by its owner so there is no theft involved. Neither has it been moved out of the country by colons or illegaly.
And it is a damn TV. A big one for sure but it isn't Moctezuma II headdress nor are those Devatas carved from Banteay Srei cambodian temple.
This example is what makes much of the "stealing" claim bogus, both for this and many artifacts. The Japanese owner wanted it gone and considered it trash. It wasn't some beloved item. Even Sony didn't care.
And so much of what is considered "stolen" was given away by someone in that culture as trash.
Turns out to be the modern equivalent of colonisers stealing local artefacts.
Why export this at all!?