Derrida's on the storm

[hirez]

Dear (self-)righteous campaigning types,
I believe what you're arguing about is the alleged right of someone to de/re/contexualise images¹ without the express consent of the participants.

Inasmuch as I am basically ok with the picture(s) from one of the early net.goth picnics being used in the context of 'Hey, look. There's [thingy]! Don't we all look young!', but I'm really not terribly happy for it to turn up on SomethingAwful about a decade later with some shoddy filtering applied as an entry in a rubbish potatoshop competition.

See also random Whitby snappers churning out grubby wank pics.

We need a crack team of postmodernist commandos to investigate and stamp out context violations.





1. And other (binary) media-object types.

Comments

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Up to a point, there's HTTP_REFERRER and REMOTE_ADDR. Surely we all remember the Great LiveJournal IQ Test Hoax of 2006 (http://www.krissyinboston.com/?p=277)? But the point that it is up to, relies on the shonky phpBB poster not being able to right-click, Save Image As, and upload to his own hosting provider.