One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

[Brickbat]

Hard to snip. Read it. And despite the title and the excerpt, it's about more than revenge porn. Some women's heads were photoshopped onto nude models, but labeled with their names. Many photos are taken by women who don't even share them; the images are hacked out of their computers.

It's harrowing.

http://jezebel.com/one-womans-dangerous-war-against-the-most-hated-man-on-1469240835?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Many months earlier, I was drawn into the nasty world of revenge porn. Revenge porn (RP) is the online distribution of nude and topless photos without consent in an effort to humiliate and hurt their targets, mostly females. A picture is uploaded to a revenge porn website by an angry ex-boyfriend or a malicious hacker usually with identifying information about a woman, such as her full name, city, workplace, social media page, boss' email address and parent's phone number. Followers of the RP websites then may harass the victim, often forwarding the embarrassing photo to her family members, friends and business contacts. This can lead to a loss of economic and employment opportunities, and it can strain or end a woman's personal relationships. At least two women have killed themselves over revenge porn, and Cyber Civil Rights Initiative studies show that 47 percent of victims contemplate suicide.

In October 2011, my 24-year-old daughter Kayla was alone in her bedroom, emulating poses from fashion magazines. She snapped over 100 cute and sexy pictures in the mirror with her cell phone. One shot revealed her left breast. She never intended to show the pictures to anyone, but wanted to save them on her hard drive. She forwarded the entire lot from her cell phone to her email and then to her computer. Three months later on January 1, 2012, her email was hacked; and nine days after that, the photo revealing her left breast appeared on the notorious revenge porn website, Is Anyone Up? Kayla was an actress, but she was working part-time as a waitress when she got the distressing phone call.

"Kayla, I have to talk to you right now," Kayla's friend, Katie, was panic-stricken. "I'm at work in the middle of my shift. I can't talk," Kayla said

"This is really important," Katie replied. "You are…" Katie began hesitantly, knowing the news would devastate Kayla. "You are topless on a website. It is called isanyoneup.com."

[zappaman]

1. Big rec!

Great article!

[PDJane]

2. Recommended

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[Rex]

4. Wow.

I've never read of a person so full of self loathing and self hatred as Moore. I wonder what made him become the monster he is now? Throw away the key and let him rot in prison.

[progressoid]

7. And his "friends"

He's a monster, as are the people helping and supporting him.

[Rex]

15. Totally agree, they are worse imo. Parasites on a parasite.

I've seen some shit on the WWW in my days, but this asshole takes the cake for biggest troll ever. I hope they get a list of all his followers. Sick fuckers one and all.

[bettyellen]

5. it's a sick thing he is profitting big from doing. hope he is stopped.

[zazen]

6. and Anonymous has gone after him. .. excellent! n/t

[byronius]

8. Awesome read.

[roguevalley]

9. how is this germ still alive?

[ismnotwasm]

10. What a Pig

This is so fucked up.

[msanthrope]

11. What an utter piece of shit. nt

[47of74]

12. Damn right.

[Egalitarian Thug]

13. Greatest of K&Rs. Thank you for posting this. n/t

[marble falls]

14. Thats some evil stuff right there.

[Marrah_G]

16. awesome article

[seabeyond]

17. boys being boys. just a fetish. no ick, shaming or value judgment. at least they are only doing

pictures adn not beating or murdering the cheatin' spouse. really, letting off steam. healthy.

i am so fuckin tired of men being fuckin abusive over and over and over and fuckin over. and we all pretend it is normal. not significant. not relevant.

why the fuck should women expect any kind of respect at all. they arre just play toys for men to puff out chest and feel all manly..... cowards.

[last1standing]

36. You seem to be unable to differentiate choice and compulsion.

Agreeing to perform consensual sex in a movie is not the same as being posted online against your will or without your knowledge. The irony is that you want to take away that choice and force all women to live by your idea of right/wrong which would do nothing to stop the posting of non-choice pornography which should be banned. You are actually part of the problem, not the cure.

Also, it's very hard to take you seriously when every post is little more than a not-so-veiled attack on anyone sporting a penis.

[seabeyond]

37. ONE post where i said take away, ban out law. ONE post. one. surely you can find ONE.

not.

why dont you make up stories...

one post

last one i ask for ONE post, couldnt do it either. went on other made up whines. one.

[last1standing]

38. I'm guessing that you're trying to suggest that you never called for the ban of porn (hard to tell).

Yet you've created entire threads (note: plural) premised on just that desire.

If that isn't what you've tried to communicate then I'll assume you've lost control of your fingers due to spasms of raw anger and your post is merely the result of bashing random keys.

[seabeyond]

39. so. nada. a made up story you throw out there for the hell of it presenting as a truth.

you know what that defines, right?

[last1standing]

41. Hmm... Does it define dementia? Psychosis? Schizophrenia?

I really don't know. How does one define the repeated posting of naked hatred against men and an overwhelming need to tell women how to live their lives with absolutely no concern for the truth?

Bat-shit crazy?

[NaturalHigh]

46. You're flogging a dead horse.

"How does one define the repeated posting of naked hatred against men and an overwhelming need to tell women how to live their lives with absolutely no concern for the truth?"

That is probably the best description of that poster's history that I have ever seen, but it's useless to point it out. For some reason, it's almost (or even completely) celebrated in some parts.

[BuddhaGirl]

40. yes...

"and we all pretend it is normal"

Just another ridiculous comment...and seems to be a carryover from a previous thread full of the same.

[last1standing]

42. Exactly. No one is "pretending it is normal." We're all pretty disgusted by this.

But the person I responded to has loaded thread after thread with the same hate-filled comments and broad-brush attacks against men. Meanwhile, she refuses to understand the difference between being forced into something and doing if of one's free will.

[idwiyo]

18. k&r

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. Fascinating story. That guy's lucky to still have all of his teeth. (I'm assuming he does) nt

[stevenleser]

22. I'm surprised no one has killed him. Seriously. I'm not making a threat, I just am surprised that

no one whose pic was up there or the father, mother, other relative or friend or significant other has blown a gasket and offed the guy. I would expect that to be a distinct possibility if you do such horrible things to people.

[MicaelS]

30. Me too.

This shithead does not realize bad shit could happen to him.

[LuvNewcastle]

43. It'll happen and a lot of people will celebrate. The rest won't care.

The guy must know this. I guess he's a nihilist.

[stevenleser]

20. K&R nt

[arely staircase]

21. please do not take this as advocating violence

but does this guy realize how many fathers, boyfriends, mothers, sisters, victims to whom he is giving motive to murder him? and the fact is with so many people with motive, it might be very easy to get away with. he is really placing his life in danger.

[stevenleser]

23. Wow, you and I just posted something eerily similar! nt

[arely staircase]

27. wow we sure did nt

[Voice for Peace]

28. ... and the plot thickens

[jsr]

24. One woman named her child after him

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-04-04/news/revenge-porn-hunter-moore-is-anyone-up/

Although Moore isn't giving out his home address or cell-phone number, which he has changed every month this year, the self-employed entrepreneur isn't hiding. The opposite, actually: Moore travels across the country DJ'ing clubs, widely promoting his personal appearances. This is partly because he insists he's a straw man. "People want to point the finger at me, but I didn't fucking raid your house and take your phone," he says. "I don't see how I'm supposed to be sorry." But more so, it's because he's constantly playing chicken. Threaten a lawsuit, and Moore will post your threat. Cry about the emotional distress he has abetted, and he will belittle your concern. "After a couple of days, literally, nobody gives a fuck," he says. "We've all masturbated to you or laughed at you, and it's done. It can't get any worse." Confront him for posting your nudes on Anderson Cooper's show, and he will just repost your boobs the following day with the headline, "The Girl Who Confronted Me on the Anderson Cooper Show."

This behavior is classic trolling, which has drawn him an online army of adoring defenders. Moore has 35,000 Twitter followers; his site has more than 91,000. One woman named her child after him. Three things fangirls have tweeted at him in the past week: "If you had aids, id still fuck you just to say i have aids and that i got aids from you"; "One day I'm going to have Hunter Moore tattooed on my stomach with an arrow pointing down that says 'God Was Here'"; "I wonder how many girls have tried to steal @Huntermoore used condoms."

"We all want to be him," insisted Charlie Rittenhouse, a 25-year-old fanboy acquaintance from Islip, Long Island, minutes before we all climbed into the limo hailed outside Moore's Webster Hall birthday party. "We all fucking do."

Internet, this is what you've created.

[Voice for Peace]

29. "Internet" did not create this.. just saying

This guy is a product and creature of our times, The Age of Who-gives-a-shit.

The conscience receptors seem to have atrophied in this branch of our species.

Such people can't survive for long under scrutiny, in daylight -- any more than a nightcrawler can enjoy a day playing outside in the warm sun.

This is why the mighty Internet is a wonderful thing. Almost nobody can hide. Lies can only be disguised for a little while. Things are becoming transparent. The manifest world is becoming transparent. We begin to see that which is behind everything.

somewhat related:
I thought this looked a lot like the Speaker of the House:

[IronLionZion]

33. F People like this

[n2doc]

34. There are always crazy followers of high profile evil people.

Charles Manson just got married, to his third wife, who is 50 years younger than him, and who carved a swastika in her forehead to be just like him.

[ogradda]

25. O wow.

My moith's hanging open. Seriously. I dont even know where to start.

[Fla Dem]

26. Do not keep any personal information on your computer hard drive. Save only to

an external HD that you connect only when you need it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. Let this be a lesson to use a CAMERA and not a PHONE to take pictures.

[mtasselin]

32. love

This is a Mothers love for their children, don't fuck with them, thank you Anonymous

[last1standing]

35. I wonder what Andy Warhol would think about this?

Yes everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame, but not by choice.

[Jim Lane]

44. That site's been down for more than a year.

According to Moore's Wikipedia bio, the website was taken down on April 19, 2012. If you now go to IsAnyoneUp.com, you're redirected to a denunciation of Moore by a man who won a $250,000 defamation judgment against him.

The information that the site is no longer operating is in the linked Jezebel article but buried pretty far down. I mention it here because many DUers responding to this thread seem to think the site is currently operating.

There may well be other revenge porn sites operating -- I'm no expert in this area -- but this one at least is gone.

[NaturalHigh]

45. That's what I read too.

I didn't know if the guy was currently operating another site or what. If he hasn't been operating for a year and a half, there must really be some hellfire hatred for this guy to still be getting so much attention.