Democrat influencers Brian and Ed Krassenstein accused of owning p#rn-linked website domains but say they never directly hosted adult or illegal content

By arseniotoledo // 2024-09-03

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A report from the Daily Mail has accused Democratic Party influencers, twin brothers Brian and Ed Krassenstein, of owning multiple pornographic website domains. The Krassenstein brothers of Fort Myers, Florida, used to be small-time entrepreneurs who ran investment web forums that were indiscriminate about the kind of investment opportunities they hosted, including apparent Ponzi schemes, according to media reports. In the past few years, the twins shot to prominence on social media over their tendency to reply to the tweets of former President Donald Trump during his first term. Their tweets praising Democrats and criticizing Republicans were regularly viewed by millions. (Related: Media personalities ATTACK RFK Jr. for endorsing Donald Trump.) Now, the 42-year-old twins are being accused of having a long history of owning domains that appear to indicate use for porn websites. The accusation comes from conservative scientist and writer Dr. Simon Goddek, who posted a series of pictures on X revealing that the Krassensteins bought multiple porn website addresses and profited from them, he says. Among the pictures, Goddek noted that Ed's email and username were used to purchase domains that trafficked in potentially illegal sexual activity, including "17onlygirls.com." Ed's email was also connected to the domains "porn4.us," "bigboobfilm.com" and "homosexuals.co.in."

Uncovered messages prove Krassensteins negotiated to gain ownership of adult websites

Furthermore, Goddek was able to uncover screenshots from 2007 of messages between the Krassensteins and the owner of several porn websites indicating that the twins were attempting to negotiate over the purchase of three porn domains: "teenpies.com," "teenpie.com" and "teenporn101.com." The messages dated back to Sept. 17, 2007, and were on the website Web Hosting Talk. They come from a user called "edbri871" – a username that matches with Brian's Pinterest username and the email the brothers used to register other porn site addresses – and were in reply to a user offering to sell 16 adult domains, including the aforementioned teen porn domains. "What price are you looking for these? Did you have them parked and if so what were they making?" wrote edbri871. The owner of the domains continued the conversation in private messages that Goddek was unable to uncover. In other messages on the same website, user edbri871 signed off with the name "Brian." In a statement, Ed confirmed that he and his brother were regulars on the Web Hosting Talk Website and that they were frequent users of the site to "purchase sites that are established and earning a regular monthly profit," adding that he and his brother were particularly interested in … sites that are aimed towards young adults/teens." In a statement, the brothers denied having ever "run a porn site of any kind." However, they did admit to buying website addresses in bulk. "We never hosted any porn site in [our] lives," claimed Brian in a reply to Goddek. "What we did do 18 years ago was buy and sell huge portfolios of domain names. We owned upwards of 15,000 domain names, not websites, and brokered them." Goddek found this claim questionable at best, replying: "It's written in black and white. There are screenshots showing that you were purchasing teen porn domains (which you call portfolio lol) with traffic." "The evidence is hitting you right in the face, yet you continue to claim it's not true," added Goddek. "Enough with the lies." Brian further responded by claiming that, between 2001 and 2011, he and his twin brother "operated a massive domain name brokerage and parking business" that saw investors buying and selling up to 15,000 web addresses. He claims that "less than 0.2 percent" of the websites bought and sold by the business were "adult-oriented." "Most of these were immediately dropped as soon as we were able to," he added. "None of them were ever developed into websites or porn sites." In a statement to the Daily Mail, Ed denied he and his brother ever purchased teenage porn-oriented domains, claiming that he or his brother may appear as registrants for certain adult website domain names because they would temporarily hold on to those sites as middlemen for other buyers and sellers, not because they own the web addresses themselves. Ed added that he does not remember ever negotiating with a user for a package of 16 adult domain names, suggesting that the screenshots could have been fabricated. Watch this clip from Red Voice Media discussing how Brian and Ed Krassenstein are accused of pushing harmful rhetoric online for profit. This video is from the Red Voice Media channel on Brighteon.com.

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Uncovered messages prove Krassensteins negotiated to gain ownership of adult websites

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