Justice of a sort was served this past Wednesday when Revenge Porn King Hunter Moore, the man who ruined women’s lives while living in his childhood home, was sentenced to two years and one month in prison by a federal district judge in Los Angeles. He will also be subjected to three years of supervision once released and a fine of...wait for it...$2,000 AND have to pay $141.70 in restitution. Because, you know, that seventy cents makes ALL the difference.
This man, who facebook has banned for life (and once they caught on his cat was acting as a front they banned HIM too, to which Moore responded with a picture of his penis. Sigh.), has been called the Net’s Most Hated Man for his IsAnyoneUp website. Paypal blocked him, Anonymous played around with him, and one woman’s father stabbed him in the shoulder with a ball point pen. His site displayed not only photos hacked from private emails but names, addresses, phone numbers, professions and social media accounts, just so a bunch of basement living trolls could wreck havoc. In case you missed the excellent story of one woman taking him on, and beating him at his own game, check THIS out.
And now this douchebag gets a slap on the wrist, a fine he can pay with the change he digs out of his childhood couch and an absolutely mysterious $141.70 bill for restitution.
It’s tough enough being human, but being a female human in this age of social media is immeasurably harder when those who do nothing decent with their lives skate relatively free. What kind of message does this send? That you, too, can get away with just about anything these days. Sigh.