Brut America
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He ran a revenge-porn website that published nude pictures of nonconsensual victims. Until one woman took him down ...

This is the story of the most hated man on the internet.
Transcript
00:00This is Hunter Moore from isanyoneup.com.
00:03F**k all your girlfriends.
00:05I felt violated.
00:06That site was about destroying lives.
00:11He thought of himself as the king of revenge porn.
00:14There it was.
00:15Topless.
00:16Multiple photos.
00:18Hunter Moore is the moral equivalent of a bed bug infestation.
00:22I really felt I was going to have to take this wall of hatred apart brick by brick.
00:40Has there been any individual you just felt sorry for to the point that you take something down?
00:45No.
00:46It's just too much fun.
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01:17My friends would just post a bunch of girly pants.
01:19I was like, yo, I can make money.
01:20I'll f**k people over.
01:21There were so many pictures of so many people who were involuntary, involuntary porn stars
01:27as far as I was concerned.
01:29It really was not about nude pictures.
01:31It was about misogyny.
01:32It was about hatred of women.
01:34It was about embarrassing and shaming other people.
01:48One of the comments I remember for one victim said, someone call Greenpeace and get her
02:02out of the water.
02:04And many of the individuals on the side who followed that site seemed to be pushing to
02:10get people to kill themselves.
02:12That was a big goal.
02:30You do know what you're doing is sleazy, right?
02:34I don't feel it's sleazy at all.
02:36Really?
02:37The people that they're trusting are the ones that are submitting it, so why isn't the blame
02:40pointed at them?
02:41Dude, without bullying, I don't know what I'd do.
02:47She came home from work.
02:50She was devastated.
02:51She locked herself in her room.
02:53She shut down her social media, she was getting comments, you know, like phone calls from
03:00strangers.
03:01In fact, a well-known porn star contacted her about talking business.
03:07He came after my daughter.
03:09She needed to be brought down.
03:11Victims are just kind of, they're in a fetal position, essentially.
03:15Most of them cannot fight for themselves.
03:32I figured there was probably a hacking scheme.
03:35So I started conducting basically a survey by contacting victims on the site.
03:42I had spoken to 40 victims who were posted within the two-week period that Kayla had
03:47been posted, and I had learned that 40% of them had never sent their pictures to anybody.
03:54That meant anybody could become a target.
03:57There was nowhere to hide.
03:59He didn't want people who said, hey, post my picture.
04:02He wanted executives.
04:03He wanted teachers.
04:04He wanted people who literally had never been exposed in that way.
04:19I said sarcastically to the operator, I said, oh, I see, you help Scarlett Johansson when
04:25she gets hacked, but you don't help the average person.
04:29And the operator just sighed, okay, let me transfer you to a detective.
04:43I had gone to Facebook.
04:44Facebook had sent a cease and desist to Hunter Moore, telling him he could not come on their
04:50platform, and he responded to that legal letter with a copy of his penis.
04:56Hunter Moore would sneak on Facebook.
04:58He would spend a whole bunch of time getting all of these friends, and I'd just make a
05:04phone call after he went to all this trouble and say, ah, he's back on, and this is the
05:08name he's using, and then poof, it would disappear literally within five minutes.
05:13It was just this minor joy that the victims would have.
05:18Hunter didn't know who was doing it.
05:20He thought that they had algorithms.
05:28I was just so angered when I saw what he was doing that he became my number one target.
05:42My plan was to socially engineer him.
05:45I wanted to do whatever I could to gain his trust and to have him think that I was his
05:49friend.
05:50Lots of calls back and forth, a lot of emails back and forth, but I would say about a month
05:56into it, I felt pretty confident that I had his trust, and then we could move on to plan
06:01B.
06:02I had one goal, get this site taken down.
06:14It was definitely less than what has been reported out in the media, which was $12,000.
06:26Hunter said he was going to come after me, he was going to ruin my online reputation,
06:33he would spend all day doing that.
06:36His followers were calling me on the phone, they were calling me, they're trying to hack
06:39into my landline.
06:40I could tell because there'd be like little beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
06:43It's going to get a lot worse.
06:45He was planning something even more dangerous.
06:48He didn't expect any accountability.
06:51He started turning against me, but it wasn't just me.
06:54He was going after my wife and my children, and I think any man would say, any good husband
07:01would say, if you fuck with my wife, I'm going to fuck with your life.
07:24One thing about these revenge porn perpetrators is they're very afraid of law enforcement,
07:39including Hunter Moore.
07:42They're not afraid of civil suits.
07:43People can sue them for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they can end up with all these
07:48judgments against them, but they don't care because they don't have assets, because mostly
07:53the perps are like guys in their 20s or 30s, often living at home with their parents in
07:59the parents' basement, but they don't want to go to jail.