I wonder if it would be possible to legislate against sites like this. Barring that, Anonymous-type actions to crash them.

And hey Anonymous, take a look at this!  Please let us know who is behind this.

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry!

1) Mugshots from actual police records with real names. Even if you pay to remove yourself, those police records still exists on plenty of sites (the one where this site just took the pics/names from in the first place).

2) Random pics from escort ads with no real full name or even the first name. Chances are they don’t even include the real name. No point in removing yourself, because who’s going to find it in a web search in the first place? Sure, maybe it crops up in an TinEye image search, but just like 1), that pic was already on the Internet elsewhere where it was associated with the sex worker biz.

3) ‘Revenge’ profiles, where someone posted a racy pic and real name of an ex out of spite, or worse, who is to stop the site owners from seeding their profiles with random pics they found on the Internet? In this case, the profile is so out of context and lacks credibility (especially if there’s no mug shot of police report to back it up), who would believe it when they found it?

So really, there’s no rational reason anyone would want to pay these guys.

In reality, there’s probably a number of people under 3) that will freak out at the idea of their name being associated with the nature of the site. They can’t calmly understand that it’s not as bad as it looks and you shouldn’t give into the crooks running it. Other folks may see someone else’s name on the site and not get that it’s likely an extortion scam.

Still, I’d just like to think people are smarter than this. The lack of Twitter feed updates makes me hope that this thing isn’t getting enough tracking to merit continuously maintaining it.

https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/30126-crappydads-com?comment=178256#comment-178256 

Of course, a woman appearing on the site could issue a DMCA takedown for the picture, assuming she took the picture or has the rights from the photographer.

That’d be faster and cheaper than the lawsuit against the domain.

Basically, what I’m saying is, unless you can pony up evidence, your claims are nothing more than a hollow conjecture.

Asshat.

Hrm. Well, in that case it’s still not a troll, but trying to astroturf them up some business from the “controversy”.

These are twin sites, rather. One targeting women. One targeting men — each with an accusation tailored to that gender.

While being accused of being a sex offender (in my opinion) carries a worse stigma than being accused of being a prostitute, men and women (again, IMO) were each targeted with an accusation where the mud is thought to stick easiest, where the accusation alone is likely to plant that “no smoke without fire” seed of doubt in people’s minds.

Whether these sites are real or hoax, both men and women have been targeted. It’s just that the writer chose for some reason to focus only on the site targeting women.

This is simple, straight-up EXTORTION… “Give us money or we will ruin your reputation amongst friends, family and employers.”

Weird they seem to only want to blackmail their own hand-picked set of exactly 100, evidently gleaned exclusively from freely available web site escort sites and freely available online mugshots. Without accepting other submissions.  While putting by all indications fake FB posts about how outraged people are about “their 11 year old getting calls”.

But…again…if you say so.

Why are you assuming that this site is based on any principles besides “give me your fucking money”?

And we’re not suggesting the extorters call the ACLU either. They won’t take either case.