Rob Miller, director of The Most Hated Man on the Internet, talks about giving a voice to the victims of an exploitative website, and the incredible mother who led its founder to be jailed
on suspicion of posting revenge porn. It’s one of the least edifying aspects of the internet, and it seems to be unstoppable.one of the most upsettingly timely documentaries in recent memory. Essentially a history lesson, it tells the story of IsAnyoneUp.com, a site that for two years revelled in posting intimate pictures of women, almost always submitted without their consent by spurned ex-lovers.
And he was gratuitously cruel, too. The site didn’t just post naked pictures of its victims. It posted them alongside their real names, professions and social media handles, so its community could actively seek them out. One particularly harrowing segment revolves around a woman whose nude photos were accompanied by a Facebook profile photo of her children.
“She’s an amazing woman,” says Miller. “If you tell Charlotte she can’t do something, she’ll just want to do it even more. She obviously cares about justice and accountability, and believes people who do bad things should be punished for those bad things. Sometimes you can have an important story, but if you don’t have the contributors, then you don’t really have a series. We were very fortunate with all our contributors.
The change of heart could have been down to a number of factors. IsAnyoneUp crashed and burned a decade ago, and Moore has subsequently served a prison sentence for aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorised access of a computer. But in their discussions, did Miller sense Moore was sorry for what he put his victims through?
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