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

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

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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…

His nerds for days comment is quite frankly, bizarre, agreed. I feel a bit sorry for him actually though. My bet is that he was probably abused as a kid and has some real issues. If he wasn't in love with lulz so much, rather than creating some shock porn sites he'd probably join the TSA or something to get his rocks off in controlling and damaging other people.

As somebody interested in peoples' motivations though, this seems puzzling. Outside of the modest burst of media attention he gets for doing it, I don't see a reason why he would add addresses to his site's pictures. The idea of mapping personally identifying information about people to certain unique numbers or addresses isn't a new concept as http://www.dirtyphonebook.com and other sites use numbers and things of that nature to link peoples' identities. But I think that inviting people to list an address is probably crossing one bridge too far.

Unfortunate.

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Eventually, one of these kind of sites will put up a photo of the child of someone who is in the field of waste management.

Then the site owner might find that legal safe harbors are not the only kind of harbor he should have been concerned with.

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

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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…

My own emotions are probably a really crappy guide for figuring out how that guy ticks.

I would assume that you are correct, given what seems to be a bent for manipulating people and a desire for notoriety because of it as well as what appears to be an attraction to chaos (e.g violent confrontations). I would assume that this guy has a touch of some form of Antisocial Personality Disorder such as Sociopathy. It's is difficult for someone to understand how a Sociopath thinks because it is extremely foreign to how a normal person thinks. The best way to describe it is to not think of people as humans but rather look at them as a hunter looks at prey. They are a trophy or rather controlling and manipulating them is a trophy. They do not view others as equal to them and view themselves as a being unto themselves as elite if you will. It's hard to say whether or not this guys suffers from Sociopathy but he sure does have a few of the markers for it.

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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.

I agree but admit that the site wouldn't have the same traction if it contained photos of other private activities like for example people brushing their teeth.

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The creator of a now defunct "revenge porn" site, on which users could post picture of exes, is in the process of creating a new, similar site: HunterMoore.TV. He says that all legal content from the old site will be back, with the addition of the ability to add a publicly viewable address for each picture, enabling users to stalk the subjects. Moore believes his new site to be legal since it relies on user submitted content, but some experts believe his actions may fall under the definition of cyber-stalking. Moore is unfazed by this possibility, saying “We’re gonna introduce the mapping stuff so you can stalk people...I know–it’s scary as shit.”

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>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.

Amusingly enough, it looks like the company he's working for to destroy that site makes its money - at least indirectly - from putting up embarrassing information about people and making them pay to get it removed.

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Reading about a person like Hunter Moore is one of the rare times I'm very glad that Anonymous and their extra-judicial brand of justice exists. Cue The Dark Knight "hero we deserve" quote.

You do realize that anonymous and their 4chan originators have been doing this kind of thing for years, right? Off the top of my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jessi-slaughter I wouldn't expect much backlash from anonymous on this one.

It appears I was right:

http://betabeat.com/2012/12/anonymous-launches-ophunthunter-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862779

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

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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 :)

couldnt of said this better myself

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