"The abuse of children is absolutely abhorrent – and that child is further violated every single time an image is circulated and viewed.
The government has also urged people to ignore a faked image being circulated online purporting to show the late leader's body.
Another image being circulated, one taken from a satellite and branded with the seal of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, turns out to be a photo of an actual concentration camp -- in North Korea.
Those images were circulated via Facebook.
Professional photographers were sent in to record the patients in the improvised wards and the images were circulated across the empire in books and on postcards.
"Sket" sites, where pictures of girls are posted by vengeful ex-boyfriends, often in compromising situations, are set up on Facebook and other networking sites, or the images are circulated on smart phone messaging systems, along with a request to give marks out of 10 for the "sket" or "bitch".
Considering the Internet speed and storage space, most of the images are circulated in the JPEG format.
Up to this point, users had to share their images on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc. in the hopes they would attract enough traction to appear on Imgur's central image gallery — a realtime collection of the most popular images being circulated on the Interwebs.
(The hackers were eventually arrested and sent to prison, but not before the images were circulated hundreds of thousands of times).
