[trynewideas]

Withdrawn; apologies.

[PKop]

I don't think there's anything wrong with identifying the suspect and learning information about them. Why not?

[dgacmu]

I believe the idea is to prevent the perpetrators of such crimes from benefitting from the publicity caused by their crime. There's been a big movement to try to get news organizations to focus more on the victims of crimes.

(I have no personal expertise to judge whether this is an effective approach or not. Just expressing what I suspect may be the reasoning.)

[BryantD]

I think that it’s bad to amplify extremist views (see the number of shooters who glorify the Christchurch killer). In this case I don’t think that’s a huge risk, though.

[skrebbel]

Because it encourages mob justice.