UPDATE: A commenter has alerted us to a Daily Capper video that mentions Amanda Todd and her habits on the internet video chat site BlogTV. You can watch the video here. The mention of Amanda begins at 1:19. The announcer says: "Amanda has been blocked a few times for showing… she said she has been IP banned from BlogTV."In the days that have passed since my initial report about Amanda Todd’s suicide, the story has become even more convoluted and concerning. That piece focused on the misrepresentation of Amanda’s story by the mainstream media, who wrongfully painted it as a case of traditional schoolyard bullying that just happened to transpire over the internet. It also detailed the vigilante efforts of a small New Jersey-based sect of the hacktivist group Anonymous whose deep-diving web research linked her allegations of being stalked and tormented to a man named Kody Maxson. At this point no one can definitively link him to Amanda’s suicide; however, it has become very apparent that Kody’s internet habits and moral character are unilaterally disgusting and mostly revolve around online sexual extortion. Advertisem*nt Advertisem*nt
The above “like” and comment is from Kody Maxson on a video of the 2011 riots in Vancouver that erupted after the Canucks lost in the Stanley Cup playoffs, which he described as a “fun night.” It also led me straight to Kody Maxson’s Facebook profile. I discovered that the Facebook profile my search results provided a link to had been renamed from “Kody Maxson” to “John Doee;” however, as you can see above, the very same profile was still showing up in Google’s cache as “Kody Maxson.” Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of websites and social networking knows that renaming a Facebook profile does very little to mask one’s true identity, and, more importantly, that the internet never forgets anything. Even more tellingly, the profile was registered under the URL facebook.com/kody604 (which, of course, has since been deactivated—but not before I took some screenshots!), with the “604” presumably selected because it is Vancouver’s area code. (To be clear, all of the Facebook information I have discovered was posted as public information available through a simple Google search.)
At the time of my discovery, the Facebook profile for John Doee/Kody Maxson stated that he lived in Havana, Cuba. By digging a bit into his timeline, I found a personal “25 Questions” quiz in which he listed Semiahmoo Secondary and Earl Mariott Secondary as the “best” schools besides Hogwarts. While the fictional magic academy is not located in Surrey, British Columbia, both of the other schools listed are. Advertisem*nt
So it’s clear that there is—or at least was—a Kody Maxson living in Surrey, British Columbia, and based on my research I believe that he either purposefully created an account including as little personal information as possible or at one point he scrubbed his profile of this information. Either way, he did a pretty sloppy job.Additional searches for information on Kody led to a website called Websites R’ Us, that Kody seemed to have establish in an attempt to drum up potential business as a website designer. The grammar and design of the site was atrocious, so I imagine that career resulted in a dead-end for him. The site was active when I discovered it early Tuesday morning, but it has since been taken offline. On the site, Kody wrote that the Websites R’ Us office was based out of Delta, British Columbia. Delta borders Surrey. The website also listed kody.maxson@hotmail.com as his contact address—the same address that the IT security expert who replied to my aforementioned email had re-registered last Friday.
The URL of the now-defunct site was kody1206.wix.com. “Kody1206” is the screen name that Anonymous has tied to jailbait message boards, as well as a much more deranged and advanced community called The Daily Capper, which derives its name from screen-capturing. Essentially, The Daily Capper is a community of individuals who lurk in video-chat rooms with the sole purpose of surreptitiously taking screenshots and recording video of the person whom they’re chatting with. This is exactly the type of torment that Amanda Todd describes in her devastating video; however, this does not prove that the site and screen name were controlled by the same person who drove her to commit suicide. Advertisem*nt
The Daily Capper also hands out awards—visualized as a golden webcam—to members of the community who cause the most harm to their victims, elicit the greatest amount of lulz, and are the most successful at blackmailing. In a video announcing the nominees for this perverse award ceremony, “Kody1206” is mentioned. A bizarre CGI newscaster (pictured in the image above) describes “Kody1206”’s online interactions with a girl referred to as “Peyton,” with a robotic voice that sounds similar to those produced by text-to-speech software: “Peyton: no one else has gotten this much attention by doing so little, her drama with Kody1206 has become the talk of BlogTV, the cam site of the year.” It goes on to say that Kody1206 is “famous for his blackmail of Peyton, streaming her videos on BlogTV and TinyChat, and threatening her in public.”The award for Blackmailer of the Year is described by this animated newscaster as the most sought-after grand prize for the “rapists of the internet.” A nominee named “Perso” is commended for “enjoying time with their sex slaves while they drink out of the toilet.” Another nominee who goes by “Aussie” is described as someone who “like others, has blackmailed so many times, he does not know if he’s doing it or not.” The animated newscaster then commends “Aussie” for this particularly vile individual’s “dedication.” But while the nod to Kody in the video raises serious questions about his moral fiber, there is no mention of Amanda Todd. You can watch that video here. Advertisem*nt
Included in the video of the ceremony is a clip of “Peyton” talking to her webcam, a video which Kody presumably recorded and shared with the human garbage that populates The Daily Capper. “Peyton” described Kody as “fat,” and said that if he “threatens her” she’ll “threaten him” right back. This particular video, like the others, does not mention Amanda Todd.While the above evidence clearly links Kody Maxson to Kody1206 and connects Kody1206 to a ring of self-congratulating sexual extortionists, it did not lead to Amanda Todd until yesterday afternoon when CTV News “tracked down” the “alleged Amanda Todd tormenter” who Anonymous “identified.”This man, who can only be Kody Maxson, told CTV News that he was Amanda Todd’s “friend” and that “he helped identify a man in New York who was harassing her.” CTV News found Kody entering a courthouse in Surrey, British Columbia, where he faces charges of “sexual assault and sexual interference with a minor in a case unrelated to Todd.” My phone call to the CTV News reporter who appears to have encountered Kody, Lisa Rossington, was not returned. Advertisem*nt Advertisem*nt
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