Thanks to Dean Sterling Jones at Shooting The Messenger, I see that the demented and easily enraged Craig Brittain has returned to his habit of ineffectual gestures at censorship.

You remember Craigbo. He ran a revenge porn site called "Is Anyone Down," posing as a lawyer named David Blade in order to extort victims into paying money to have their pictures taken down. Craig — together with muttonchopped and muttonheaded friend Chance Trahan, who is to indie music what Jame Gumb is to plus-sized women — committed wire fraud and extortion and attempted, to the best of his demi-literate ability, to threaten people who wrote about it. Craig attempted to abuse the DMCA to have negative coverage removed from the internet, without result. Eventually he was forced to reach a humiliating settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that, resume-wise, is the equivalent of a facial Nickelback tattoo.

More recently, Craig has embarked on two simultaneous paths: the path of a social critic and aspiring pseudo-journalist seeking investors to back his anarcho-capitalist critique of society, and aspiring CEO of Uber competitor "Dryvyng," a business devoted to the proposition that if you'd like a ride you ought to order one from a pathological revenge porn extortionist with a searing hatred of women and humanity in general. Craigbo has sought to raise capital for Dryvyng through disturbed and bigoted tirades at venture capitalists. Perhaps prolonged exposure to MRA rhetoric led him to believe that negging was a viable strategy for developing startup capital. Conclusion: nah, bro. Nah. These disappointments have led Craig to split his time between railing at the parasites in our decadent liberal society and railing against venture capitalists who fail to shower money upon an unpredictably enraged, pimply, slur-spouting felon who is under an FTC consent decree and a patently inadequate medication regimen.

So Craigbo's probably looking for diversions is what I'm saying, which led him to try the DMCA routine again and demand on behalf of Dryvyng a takedown of a Wikipedia page on his revenge porn site "Is Anybody Down?" The DMCA process, as you know, addresses intellectual property rights, but with characteristic legal acumen Craigbo has demanded that Wikipedia remove the page based on "Slanderous [sic], libelous and deliberately misleading Wikipedia entry designed to defame and libel me and my company . . . Please permanently remove this page (and all of Wikipedia itself, which is a left-wing hive for slander and libel) from Google." Craigbo has also attempted to target Business Insider, Fusion, Reddit, and others.

Craig will be Craig. But will he be Craig, free and in the wild forever? The wheels of justice grind slowly — but remember that they do grind,

my friends. To the extent that Craig's continued existence as Craig is not the most brutal consequence a cold universe can inflict upon him, Craig will encounter justice sooner or later.

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