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California Outlaws “Revenge Porn”

By on October 3, 2013 in News 4

revenge pornAs reported by CNET News:

Tempted to post a compromising photo of an ex-lover who spurned you?

A bill signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday promises up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for people “convicted of illegally distributing private images with the intent to harass or annoy.” Sponsored by Sen. Anthony Cannella (R-Ceres), Senate Bill 255 goes into effect immediately and makes posting “revenge porn” a misdemeanor.

Such private photos are posted online, sometimes at multiple sites, without the subject’s knowledge or consent. Some sites that specialize in revenge porn photos charge the victim hefty fees to remove them.

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What’s Up With Hunter Moore?

By on December 6, 2012 in News 6

A certain segment of the tech crowd is aghast at the prospect of the return of Hunter Moore to the so-called “revenge porn” segment of the web. A breathless story by Jessica Roy in the New York Observer makes him out to be a modern day Antichrist of the Internet, but I can’t help feeling as though Moore is punking the Observer and its outraged readers – any insight from the disinfoverse?

…Mr. Moore is the proprietor of Is Anyone Up, which until last Spring was the web’s most prominent revenge porn hub, a site where spurned exes post embarrassing images of former lovers. Deemed The Most Hated Man on the Internet by Rolling Stone, Mr. Moore revels in his position as a professional antagonist, gleefully flinging around his favored retort—“I really don’t give a fuck.” He doesn’t sleep well at night, but not because his day job haunts him: he’s an insomniac.

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