After
Don't f**k with cats
and
The Tinder hustler
, Netflix sheds light on another modern-day criminal through
The Internet's Most Hated Man
.
If he is not a criminal like Luka Magnotta or a storyteller ruining his victims like Simon Leviev, Hunter Moore has, by his actions, destroyed the existence of many people.
In 2010, when he was only 24 years old, this Californian launched the IsAnyoneUp.com website devoted to the world of the night.
Quickly, having fun publishing photos of naked people, he noticed that his site was gaining in popularity and opportunistically exploiting the vein of “revenge porn”.
Thus, for sixteen months, he puts intimate photos of men and women online, without their consent, mentioning their identity and their social networks.
To discover
TV program: Find tonight's TV program
Intoxicated by this sudden notoriety, the self-proclaimed professional saboteur of the lives of others attracts the attention of the media.
On November 13, 2012, journalist Alex Morris dubbed him "the most hated man on the internet" in her report published in
Rolling Stone magazine.
.
Making no compromise with its victims and systematically refusing the deletion of intimate photos published on its site (because protected by American laws), Hunter Moore will find in Charlotte Laws an extremely tough adversary.
As her daughter Kayla is displayed topless on IsAnyoneUp.com, she engages in a fight against the rambunctious Californian and "revenge porn" in general.
By collecting dozens of victim testimonies and evidence of computer hacking, she led to the opening of an investigation by the FBI in 2012.
Hunter Moore in Netflix's Most Hated Man on the Internet
Read also
The Tinder scammer
: the incredible scam of Simon Leviev told on Netflix
A destabilized time, Hunter Moore agrees to sell for 12,000 dollars the URL of his site and the total deletion of the data which was there to a platform fighting against harassment.
Before regretting it and becoming again this insolent and egocentric individual with thousands of followers.
But the investigation carried out by Charlotte Laws then by the FBI made it possible to prove that the photos published on IsAnyoneUp.com had been obtained by hacking into the personal computer of the victims.
In January 2014, he and his accomplice were charged in federal court in California.
On February 18, 2015, he pleaded guilty to unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information for private financial gain and to aggravated identity theft.
In December 2015,
“Not everything was negative, I had a good time but, if I had to do it again, I would do it in a different way”
Hunter Moore in July 2022
Now 36, Hunter Moore has led a much more discreet existence since his release in May 2017. Banned from major social networks like Facebook and Instagram, he first devoted himself to music (releasing the single
Make The Internet Great Again
) and writing his memoir (
Is Everyone Up?: The Story of Revenge Porn
) after his release from prison.
Following the broadcast of the Netflix documentary mini-series, he gave an interview to American YouTuber Daniel Wise.
“It probably sounds awful but I'm proud of what I've created and I'm proud of the community I've created.
But I wish I had gone about it a different way.
I am obviously more than sorry and I would really like to apologize to the people who have been negatively affected by my site
, he notably confided.
I've done my time and I feel like I've paid my debt.
Not everything was negative, I had a good time but, if I had to do it again, I would do it in a different way.
I would definitely take down any trauma anyone has had because of the website or anything negative that happened on the site because at the time I didn't understand it.
»
Hunter Moore admits to having behaved like
“a selfish little child, drunk with glory”
who would have needed to be guided and framed to proceed in the right way.
“If I had done that, my life would probably have been ten times cooler and I probably wouldn't have gone to jail.
First engaged in the process of creating Rob and Vikki Miller's documentary for Netflix, the Californian finally withdrew from the project
.
If he recognizes that he deserves reproaches and criticism for what he has done wrong, he regrets that the exposure of his story on a global scale after the fact plunges his family and loved ones back into a negative whirlwind.
On the very content of the documentary, he claims that several inaccuracies are there,
