{"id":118019,"date":"2015-02-03T07:33:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=118019"},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T05:35:45","slug":"revenge-porn-website-admin-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/118019-revenge-porn-website-admin-charged.html","title":{"rendered":"Revenge porn website admin charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Diego man charged with running a revenge-porn site where people posted nude pictures of their exes has been convicted of more than two dozen felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Bollaert was found guilty Monday of identity theft and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the first convictions under a new California law that outlawed revenge porn.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Bollaert ran a website where people posted explicit images of their ex-lovers and their names and hometowns without consent, and a second website the victims could contact to have the images removed &#8211; for a fee of up to $350.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Bollaert made tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In court, Bollaert&#8217;s lawyer, Emily Rose-Weber, argued that the business may have been immoral, but it wasn&#8217;t illegal.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on websites<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/117910-education-department-website-hack-attack.html\">Education department website \u201chack attack\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/116964-hackers-target-french-websites.html\">Hackers target French websites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/116428-top-20-south-african-websites.html\">Top 20 South African websites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the first convictions under a new California law that outlawed revenge porn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,28679,28677],"class_list":["post-118019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-kevin-bollaert","tag-revenge-porn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}