'The Most Hated Man on the Web' assessment: A Netflix docuseries tackles Hunter Moore and the struggle in opposition to his 'revenge porn' website

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“The Most Hated Man on the Web” faces a little bit of a logistical downside: Tips on how to visually signify the form of pictures that had been posted by the “revenge porn” website IsAnyoneUp.com with out invading folks’s privateness over again. Creatively tackling that, the producers ship a extremely watchable if salacious three-part docuseries, fueled by its really hissable, made-for-TV villain.

That will clearly be Hunter Moore, who achieved notoriety within the 2010s by publicly reveling in his bad-boy picture whereas posting specific pictures of individuals (principally ladies) with out their permission. The postings linked to Fb and different private accounts and compounded the bullying and abuse by urging the location’s followers to mock and mock these featured. Pleas to take away the pictures, politely or in any other case, had been laughed off, with little recourse for these whose lives had been upended.

A minimum of at first. As a result of “The Most Hated Man on the Web” (the headline of a 2012 Rolling Stone article about Moore) additionally comes with its personal white knight, Charlotte Legal guidelines, who turned Moore’s actions in posting unauthorized pictures of her daughter Kayla into a private campaign, contacting different victims and lobbying authorities till she discovered somebody, anybody, who would choose up the trigger and take motion.

Director Rob Miller peppers the docuseries with testimonials from these whose privateness was breached, utilizing phrases like “violated” and “humiliated,” in addition to law-enforcement officers who – armed with revelations about pictures being hacked and never merely offered by indignant exes – had been ultimately in a position to pursue costs in opposition to Moore. The producers approximated the pictures with assist from prepared individuals on an grownup web site as an example how intrusive and specific they had been.

“The Most Hated Man on the Web” primarily resonates as a cautionary story about Web trolling from an early practitioner and self-proclaimed “skilled life ruiner.”

But whereas Legal guidelines’ tireless efforts to carry down Kayla’s pictures, after which your complete website, give the mission a heroic basis, the collection additionally incorporates a warning in regards to the double-edged sword of the media microscope. In that sense Moore proved his personal worst enemy, damaging himself via his smirking interviews and public persona, together with a very tone-deaf look on Muricas News anchor Anderson Cooper’s syndicated speak present in 2011.

Essentially the most disturbing facet of the story, in the meantime, is perhaps the rabid nature of Moore’s on-line followers, which included not solely hounding these on the location by leveling threats in opposition to Legal guidelines and others who would possibly communicate out. Once more, it seems like a precursor to the armies of followers some personalities command, and the way in which the Internet can enlarge even tiny constituencies with a digital megaphone.

Netflix has loved appreciable success with a sure vaguely sleazy subgenre of docuseries – “The Tinder Swindler” and “Our Father” amongst them – and “The Most Hated Man on the Web” falls squarely inside that wheelhouse.

Like a few of these tasks, this one presents a way of catharsis and uplift in Legal guidelines’ willpower to see justice accomplished. As for the truth that the title is dedicated to the troll, think about that squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease dynamic an indication of the occasions, each then and now.

“The Most Hated Man on the Web” premieres July 27 on Netflix.