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by Frances Bell -
To give a bit more background to my (and others') objection to the Abu Ghraib images, you could read this story from a different context (that of child abuse) where the victim tells poignantly of the ongoing indignity of the circulation of her images on the Internet see http://www.abcnews.go.com/Primetime/International/story?id=1919036&page=1
She sacrificed her 'anonymity' to tell her story , probably since anonymity had been no protection against the ongoing abuse she had suffered from the circulation of anonymous images of her 'real' abuse.
Early fears on paedophile and pornographic materials on the Internet focused on the danger to children who viewed. This shifted to concern for the 'real' victims those whose abuse was filmed or photographed, and then compounded by being endlessly replicated and viewed across the Internet.
Even with questions of 'innocence', I think there are clear parallels with the Abu Ghraib images.