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Criminalizing “revenge porn”

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Imagine a woman does a Google search on her own name and up comes a page featuring a naked photo that she sent to an ex-boyfriend. There are links to her Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account. In the comment thread, anonymous trolls critique every inch of her body. Perhaps her home phone number and address are also included. Say she contacts the local police in tears, only to be told that the post is perfectly legal -- or worse, that “boys will be boys.”

This is becoming an increasingly common scenario, activists say, given the proliferation of “revenge porn" and the legal system's failure to catch up with it.

A new bill in Florida is aiming to remedy that: It would make it a felony to publish online nude photos or videos of a person without their permission and along with identifying information. At the same time, activists around the country are petitioning for both state and federal laws to criminalize what they call “non-consensual porn.” A recent class action lawsuit filed by more than 20 women in Texas against revenge porn site Texxxan.com along with its host GoDaddy has only turned the heat up on the issue.

Hunter Moore’s new “revenge porn” site is scarier than his last one

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Yesterday news broke that porn prince Hunter Moore has unofficially launched his new "revenge porn" site, HunterMoore.tv. From a notice on the site, it seemed that Moore's Porn 2.0 venture might differ from his original, Is Anyone Up, which hosted nude shots of people submitted by anonymous users. But in a follow-up interview last night with Betabeat's Jessica Roy, the deeply reviled porn pusher said that his new site will feature the same content as the old one, minus the "legally questionable" content that put him in a lot of hot water the first time around. “I have nerds for days,” said Moore. "I have nerds on nerds. I have so many secret servers. I got shit in Switzerland, Australia, Canada. All that stuff’s accessible it’s just on a different domain."

Scarier yet, though, is what Moore plans to add to all of the nude pics: home addresses. “All these people that thought they were safe: nah, it’s all gonna be back,” he said. "We’re gonna introduce the mapping stuff so you can stalk people." Moore insists that he is within his legal rights because he's posting user submitted content.

In any case, let's all hope that the FBI is still sniffing around.

Revenge porn king Hunter Moore is back

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:04:00 +0000

It was only a matter of time before Hunter Moore, the creator of shuttered revenge porn site Is Anyone Up, found his way back to the dark subterrain of the Internet. For the blissfully uninitiated, Moore's original site was a platform to share "pornographic souvenirs from relationships gone sour" along with personal information. Moore closed the site earlier this year, citing "legal drama" and concerns of online bullying, turning it over to anti-bully group BullyVille.

But the Internet's so-called Most Hated Man hasn't backed off for long. In what reads like half school note, half press release, Moore has posted a notice on his new site, HunterMoore.tv, announcing his ominous return: