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I have quite a few friends (through the music industry) that know Hunter pretty well and have told me quite a few stories about him, his actions, his personality, etc. I also know a small handful of girls that had photos of themselves posted on his site IsAnyoneUp. And at one point, I was even almost referred to him to work on IsAnyoneUp, BUT I quickly made it obvious I wanted absolutely nothing to do with that type…
Not to be a profit-motivated-douchebag here...but what's the point of this exactly? I mean, what value does adding addresses serve to the bottom line? The site will already draw traffic because: it's porn. There's already, I think in EVERYONE's opinion, sufficient schadenfreude from strangers' private photos being posted online. And so what does adding addresses do? OK, it gives the submitter more of a feeling of pow…
I mean, what value does adding addresses serve to the bottom line? Because a competitor site did it. Check out this blog[1] for some details. Granted, that site did it because they wanted to profit from people paying to get their stuff taken down while pretending to be a lawyer. Which may have crossed a line which will land those sociopaths in jail. [1] http://www.popehat.com/tag/is-anybody-down/
According to the article, Hunter Moore also ran that site as well.
Willfully and gleefully helping to destroy people's lives. My brain normally just shuts down at such a level of awfulness, which means it's probably worth trying to understand, at least at the intellectual level. I mean, is this just straight up sadism? Is the guy just happy ruining stuff, a child knocking over blocks, except that he's in a grown man's body? Doesn't seem implausible, but I don't feel like I understan…
It will be a sad day for society - the best we can do is not give his site the Oxygen of publicity.
If you look at the bottom of these sites there is a 2257 compliance statement which means that they must keep records on all of the models (copies of passport etc) to prove that they are over 18.
They also say they require agreement from anybody appearing in the photos.
There was a profile on him a while back, and he came across as the biggest douchebag that ever lived but if he thinks he can get away with basically enabling stalking he's probably going to find out rapidly that he's not as sheltered under the law as he hopes.
He doesn't do a very good at justifying his behaviour, though, which I think is weird. Most people at least try to justify the things they do, so as to not have an internal struggle. He doesn't seem to have any problems with it.
Some further back story to Hunter Moore, bodhisattva and humanitarian: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/22/how-hunte... http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/3430751/
From the linked article: Three things fangirls have tweeted at him in the past week: "If you had aids, id still f--k 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."
I'm guessing he doesn't read the news.
Willfully and gleefully helping to destroy people's lives. My brain normally just shuts down at such a level of awfulness, which means it's probably worth trying to understand, at least at the intellectual level. I mean, is this just straight up sadism? Is the guy just happy ruining stuff, a child knocking over blocks, except that he's in a grown man's body? Doesn't seem implausible, but I don't feel like I understan…
In order for his site to succeed it will depend on thousands of "sadists" submitting content, and thousands more viewing it (and paying? or adverts?). It will be a sad day for society - the best we can do is not give his site the Oxygen of publicity.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-05-16/news/hacker-is-anyone...
The report implies that some of the IAU content may have been through a Facebook social engineering hack...a hacker gains access to one person's account and then chats that person's friends, claiming to have lost her phone and needing a friend to read her back Facebook's password confirmation code, which has been sent to the friend's phone.
The confirmation code, of course, is for the friend's account...who know finds him/herself locked out of their FB and linked social accounts.
"websites are immune from legal responsibility for content submitted by others." I'm guessing he doesn't read the news.