Ex-porn site owner who used nude photos of non-consenting subjects profiled in new Netflix documentary
- The exploits and downfall of Hunter Moore, who owned the revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp.com, is the subject of Netflix’s ‘The Most Hated Man on the Internet’
- Moore once said he contemplated punching Mark Zuckerberg ‘because that would get me so popular. Like, unless I raped Steve Jobs, what else is there?’
Who is The Most Hated Man on the Internet? Netflix’s new three-part documentary chronicles the downfall of one recklessly wicked webmaster, North California native Hunter Moore, who fed his adult site with nude photos of non-consenting subjects.
The docuseries (now streaming) features victims of the short-lived IsAnyoneUp.com, as well as those who were able to shut down the now 36-year-old Moore’s endeavour: law enforcement, a former US marine with a sense of vengeance for bullies, and a stop-at-nothing mother whose daughter’s stolen photos appeared on Moore’s website.
The website – active from 2010 to 2012 – displayed images submitted by the subjects, their exes or through hacking. The site also included personal information about those pictured, including social media accounts.
With no legislation in America to specifically combat “revenge porn” at the time, Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act provided Moore some protection, as the site’s content was generated by users and not the site itself. It’s the same defence that Facebook has been known to implement.
When photos of Charlotte Laws’ daughter appeared on Moore’s website, she began to suspect Moore was relying on hacking for content. She launched her own investigation, and contacted the FBI and journalists, ignoring death threats by Moore’s mob of fans, dubbed “the family.”
