The four-way split:
Privacy is good, everyone has some expectation of it. Most people prefer toilet stalls with a door.

Privacy is bad, it is the breeding ground of hypocrisy. A recent study showed that highly conservative and religious states partake of as much porn on average as the more liberal and irreligious states. As the joke goes: Baptists who easily recognize each other on Sunday morning develop memory loss when they see each other in the liquor store and the porn isle in the video store.

Small towns are an interesting study of both the good and bad of everyone knowing everyone's business. There is often little to fear if everyone's secrets are out in the open.

Open records allow oversight. Closed records invite corruption and abuse. Sunshine is a good disinfectant. Experience in England is that police are often less prone to abuse when they understand that their actions are probably on tape.

When talking to police, calling 911, posting things online and using e-mail don't assume your anonymous. Generally avoid saying anything you would be embarrassed about if it was put on a billboard with you name on it.

Victims often fear giving a detailed account of their abuse because they fear they are to blame and nobody will understand. Abusers use this to keep victims quiet and make them feel alone and isolated. Generally when detailed and intimate accounts of attacks are revealed people immediately understand that it can happen to anyone. That similar events have been done to many. That the victim is not to blame. That the abuser is the problem.

Generally abusers and bullies have far more to fear when events are laid bare and exposed in the light.