@Steven Roper Re: Sanctimonious much?
"Ok, he did a wrong thing. "
1) Well, I am impressed by how you don't even want to call what he did "criminal activity". Maybe you could stretch the concept of "a wrong thing" to cover the act of putting fraudulently-obtained intimate photos on the web - if he did it once and only once. But setting up a website as a business and putting up many such photos is not and then extorting money from the victim to remove them is not a "mistake". It's an "ongoing criminal enterprise".*
*"It was claimed Brittain broke the law by tricking women into sending him their nude photos – by posing as a curious woman on the internet and offering to swap private snaps. He then posted their compromising pics on his website, the FTC said" - from the Register story at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/ftc_craig_brittain/ "To profit from his activity, Brittain promoted a separate takedown service: he would offer to get the pics removed if he was paid between $200 and $500, we're told.")
2) "Well, if social-media vigilantes like you are going to hunt him down, expose him and harass the hell out of him wherever he turns, even though he's trying to turn over a new leaf and start an honest business, what is he supposed to fucking do?"
What "he's supposed to do" is no one's problem but his own. And it is easy to see that your next gambit will be to tell us that not pretending that his past doesn't exist will be a reason for him to go back to his old line of work.
3) Pay particular attention to the fact that he's calling the facts about his past a "baseless rumor". But even if you don't care about what happened to any of his victims - and it's pretty clear you don't - pay some additional attention to the fact that he obtained his photos by fraudulently misrepresenting himself and his intentions to his victims. And that is an important bit of information for potential investors and users to know. So even if you really have a vindictive and resentful attitude for women, you ought to be able to understand that.