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Re: Hunter Moore’s Revenge Porn Site Will Map Submitted Photos to People’s Addresses

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Post by danielweber »

Judson wrote: post #32
danielweber wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

>Because a competitor site did it. According to the article, Hunter Moore also ran that site as well.

"Is Anybody Down" is the "new" site that Marc Randazza has set sights on destroying.

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Post by anonymous »

rauljara wrote: post #17

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…

Some men just want to watch the world burn. And it's not about "sending a message", it's just gleeful vandalism. Lulz. It's also about exploiting society's disproportionate obsession regarding nudity and sex. But not with the goal of changing anything - no. It's just fun to see lives of stupid people destroyed.

It's somewhat like being a pyromaniac - you like to see things burn. Though just having that mindset doesn't make you an arsonist - that's a pyromaniac that's also a sociopath.

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Post by throwit1979 »

pyre wrote: post #36
theorique wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

These comments are so over-the-top that I can only imagine that he is controlling the accounts that tweeted them.

You're attributing to staging what can be adequately explained by reality.

See: the myriad women tweeting about how they would love to get beaten up by Chris Brown.

For better or for worse, being the bad boy "works". And it works extraordinarily well for a larger proportion than we'd like to believe.

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Post by vampirechicken »

Jabbles wrote: post #33
rauljara wrote: post #17

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.

You must be new to the internets.

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Post by anonymous »

anonymous wrote: post #42
rauljara wrote: post #17

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…

Some men just want to watch the world burn. And it's not about "sending a message", it's just gleeful vandalism. Lulz. It's also about exploiting society's disproportionate obsession regarding nudity and sex. But not with the goal of changing anything - no. It's just fun to see lives of stupid people destroyed. It's somewhat like being a pyromaniac - you like to see things burn. Though just having that mindset doesn'…

And.. in a way it's about holding a mirror up to society. All the guy does is let you post a picture. Then the rest of society destroys lives. Over something they themselves do each night.

Honestly, I understand him. This is exactly the kind of site I'd build if I were socipathic.

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Post by zimbatm »

Jabbles wrote: post #33
rauljara wrote: post #17

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.

It's just sex. If the society didn't regard this activity as shameful then this website wouldn't have the same kind of attraction.

I imagine a website where people would post photos of people enjoying a glass of wine :)

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Post by Jabbles »

zimbatm wrote: post #46
Jabbles wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's just sex. If the society didn't regard this activity as shameful then this website wouldn't have the same kind of attraction. I imagine a website where people would post photos of people enjoying a glass of wine :)

I wouldn't want photos of me doing anything uploaded without my permission, visible to anyone and tagged with my name and address.

Just because something is private doesn't mean it's shameful.

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Post by elliottcarlson »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #34

I always assumed that those "girlfriend revenge" and "facebook hacked" type porn sites were just bullshit and it was content that had been sold legitimately or maybe ripped from /r/gonewild (NSFW). 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…

If there is a fetish or interest in a specific topic, there will be sites faking the shots for more sales - all about supply and demand. There are then obviously also the people with real content that are looking to share that as well. It's like the movie 8mm - they are searching for proof of a snuff film, and while everyone says they don't exist, and all the ones they find are fakes, they finally uncover the one they are holding on to is indeed real. The majority of those sites will be fake - but there will be some that are real as well.

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Post by maratd »

rauljara wrote: post #17

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…

> Is it the money?

It's always the money. If there's no revenue stream, small sites stay small and you never hear about them.

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Post by pjungwir »

danso wrote: post #12

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…

The site exists to extort those in the pictures. Adding the address isn't for the gawkers; it's to scare the photographed.
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