Rag Times

“ Let me repeat: these are photographs. These are the objects police use to identify criminals. These are things that explicitly and routinely constitute evidence. They are precisely the opposite of anonymous—they are vehicles of anti-anonymity. And yet many people in this community bizarrely insist that they are somehow irrelevant, and that posting them is not a violation of a person’s privacy. Whereas connecting a username to someone’s actual name—not to their body, just to another label, another way they exist in the world—is a massive privacy violation.