Section 230, it's not just for WP

[Moonage Daydream]

Village Voice: Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You

Hunter Moore is the unrepentant founder of Is Anyone Up, a virtual grudge slingshot of a website that gleefully publishes "revenge porn" photos—cell-phone nudes submitted by scorned exes, embittered friends, malicious hackers, and other ne'er-do-well degenerates—posted alongside each unsuspecting subject's full name, social-media profile, and city of residence.

As he soon discovered, Moore isn't legally held responsible for the user-submitted content to his site, thanks to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a federal law that protects Web hosts against legal claims arising from hosting third-party information, including libel or invasion of privacy. ("No provider or user of an interactive-computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider," reads the CDA's actual text.) It's this same powerful protection that prevents website owners from the venom posted to their comments sections and Facebook from being held culpable for users' words. The person lawfully responsible for possible offenses like, say, defamation of character or slander is the party who submits the photos to Moore's site—the jilted ex, the vendetta-settling former friend, Felix.

[Midsize Jake]

And it's always nice to see journalists come to the same conclusions as oneself:

Increased national attention may very soon push policymakers' to decide that online harassment isn't an issue limited to children. Hunter Moore could very easily be a catalyst for curtailing online freedoms. "Anybody who looks at (Moore's website) site goes, 'There's no way that this can exist,' and yet it does," says California-based intellectual property lawyer Denise Howell, who co-hosts the podcast This Week in Law. "Sites like this may be the trigger point for more sweeping legislation that comes in and says, 'Yes, we want immunity for site holders—but there is a point at which you cross the line.'"

In fact, I doubt that most people actually want immunity for "site holders." They might be willing to accept it as a non-issue, for now at least, but that's going to change as time wears on and more and more people are negatively affected by people like this.

So, does anyone know the name of Hunter Moore's Wikipedia-admin account, then?