> "Everybody who is participating in this violence, what really amounts to an insurrection, should be held accountable," says the site's creator, who asked for anonymity to avoid retaliation.
6,000 people didn’t storm the capital. Intentionally taking these images out of context, and posting them like mugshots and calling them all insurrectionists?
I hope any one of the many peaceful protesters captured in those images files a lawsuit for libel.
Both private and government posting of pictures (or drawings from descriptions) of people suspected to be involved in or of interest related to a crime, without any kind of prior judicial process or clearance, is routine, not punishment, and doesn’t alter the role of process required for punishment. It does not “negate fair justice”. Nor are they “presented as guilty” on this site, even in the sense that people might be said to be “presented as guilty” when featured in a wanted poster.
> Then who defines how they should be held accountable?
A court, as usual. The page ask for rioters identified by the combination of still face photo and linked video to be reported to the FBI, and provide the FBI’s tip link.
Nothing good will come of all of this and it's disheartening that a large portion of the population is behind it simply because they feel they're in the right.
But were I undecided, your "Antifa Inc. Pvt. Ltd." would be unlikely to sway me, as it mocks the very idea that Antifa organizes in any cohesive fashion (when we can see on Twitter, Facebook, and other such avenues that they clearly do)
The site doesn’t do that, and explicitly links the source video for each face.
> I hope any one of the many peaceful protesters captured in those images files a lawsuit for libel.
If they are the party that actually filmed it, they’d be better off suing for copyright violations (though a fair use defense may well exist), as this clearly isn’t even approximately libel.