Photo of from the public Craig R. Brittain for US Senator, Arizona Facebook page.

A friend recently posted that a woman he knows had a pretty shitty experience with Craig R. Brittain*, revenge porn site owner via Facebook Messenger, after matching on Tinder. (Actually, the woman even questions if they matched via the dating app.) Brittain, also just happens to be running for Jeff Flake’s U.S. Senate seat in the 2018 Arizona GOP Primary.

*(The original FB post featuring some of the screenshots of messages that are featured down below, was reported and deleted by Facebook. Please feel free to screenshot or otherwise archive this just in case Scumbag Craig tries to get it taken down here.)

Brittain’s charming come-ons (all quoted as written, numerous grammar errors and all) include:

After getting the mildest of rebuffs: “Well heres proving that youre an ignorant cunt. Ill block you now you vain bitch.”

“Your worthless womanlife has no fucking value”

“Men work so fucking hard Just to have you shoot us down with your bullshit. Meanwhile you just act like a cunt and because you have a cunt people still like you.”

Brittain’s revenge porn site history includes acquiring intimate photos of women, posting identifying information about them (aka doxxing), and then attempting to blackmail them for hundreds of dollars.

From a February 2015 Forbes article, “Craig Brittain: Confessions Of An ‘Accidental’ Revenge Porn Pusher”:

At the end of January, the Federal Trade Commission said it had reached a settlement with Craig Brittain, who owns the IsAnybodyDown.com website, which stopped spreading revenge porn images in April 2013. The FTC alleged that “he used deception to acquire and post intimate images of women”, which would then be posted on the site, often alongside their address, phone number and Facebook profile. Again, he’d ask for hundreds of dollars from victims demanding photos of them were removed, according to the regulator. Brittain would also offer a reward of at least $100 in exchange for pictures and supplementary information, the complaint claimed. His punishment was light: a ban from posting images of people nude without their consent and an agreement to delete all the awful material he was alleged to have published.

You can read Brittain’s piss-poor attempt at an apology over the whole thing, which of course only came after the FTC’s January 2015 ruling to disallow him from reopening his site and forbidding him from publicly posting anyone’s nude photos or videos. His fauxpology has 49 (!) rambling points including:

“18. ‘Revenge Porn’ is a largely fictionalized narrative. Why is it okay for the mainstream press to display someone’s information in a way that portrays them in a negative light — especially in the case of public figures like Brett Favre and Anthony Weiner, who were, in fact, victims of ‘Revenge Porn’? The mainstream media needs to be held to the same standards. We do not live in a sexist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic ‘rape culture’. We live in one of the most diverse countries in the entire world (in the United States), where everyone is afforded equal opportunity to succeed based upon their merits.

“25. In fact, no less than 200 of the women pictured, and at least 50 of the men pictured were offered modeling contracts valued as high as $100,000 per year as a result of exposure generated by publicity from IAD.”

“28. We actually received and posted self-submitted nudes from Hong Kong nationals whose government did not allow them to post their own nudes (illegal in People’s Republic of China) and posted them to slight the Chinese government. This resulted in a measured, confirmed attack on our cloud by PLA Unit 61398, which an independent security team confirmed upon my behalf was the result of Chinese military IPs rather than open proxies.”

“49. Again, I express my regret to, and support for, anyone who was/is affected by ‘Revenge Porn’ and I would like to help in preventing the further spread of ‘Revenge Porn’, ‘Shame Porn,’ ‘Revenge Media’, and ‘Shame Media’. If you have been affected by these things, you are not alone. I love you all and wish only the best for everyone. I do not want to be the person I was in 2013. I am a different person now. Please, help me to choose the right path.”

About the last point in Brittain’s fake apology — “I do not want to be the person I was in 2013. I am a different person now. Please, help me to choose the right path.”— considering that those words are from January 2015 and the screenshots of dating app harassment above are from 2015, it doesn’t seem like Brittain was that different of a person.

Please help Craig R. Brittain choose the right path; pass on this link and spread this information and hopefully drive him out of politics. Thanks!