But more importantly, using images from just anyone's website means they can trivially associate our IP address with our screen name. They just have to match the timing in their website logs with the timestamp on our comments. That is unlikely with imgur or 100's of other image hosting services. Either they do not keep logs or they are unlikely to be tracking people through logs.
If the images are part of a disinfo campaign and they are being tracked (two if's that may or may not be true), then the people behind the campaign can more effectively target their audience.
It is somewhat unavoidable if you want to show what was originally on now wiped sources. Back in the early days of this, you could look at original sources, like James Alefantis' instragram and you could find youtube videos regarding the parties and artwork in "Comet Pizza."
Now this information only exists in capture form on kook websites.
But more importantly, using images from just anyone's website means they can trivially associate our IP address with our screen name. They just have to match the timing in their website logs with the timestamp on our comments. That is unlikely with imgur or 100's of other image hosting services. Either they do not keep logs or they are unlikely to be tracking people through logs.
I have never really been concerned about people getting my IP address, I just assumed it was the cost of doing business on the net. Perhaps I should be more concerned, because there are out there violent Antifa types, and other liberal hate groups that will dox people if they can. We seem to be entering a different era, and one in which people need to be more proactive about letting people know who they are. The left is seemingly ramping up retaliation against dissent.
I will have to start using proxies to link stuff, I suppose.
If the images are part of a disinfo campaign and they are being tracked (two if's that may or may not be true), then the people behind the campaign can more effectively target their audience.
The images i've posted so far are things I myself saw on James Alefantis' image feed before he deleted everything. Also the Podesta emails (some of which weirdly concentrate on pizza using bizarre references to it) are out there from Wikileaks, and I think they are what started this whole Pizza focused topic.
I find myself in a funny position. I have never been a whole hog proponent of this "Pizza Gate" business, i've just been keeping up with what other people have found and shown in the past. I didn't keep copies, I didn't make any records, and I didn't intend to ever try to prove any of this to anyone.
I've just seen enough of what people have found to make me think something really stinks, and that there is quite possibly a "there" there.
But I don't know. I just keep open the possibility that there is until I see better proof that there isn't.