Censorship: QAnon Site Gets Shutdown after Dox Cancels Free Speech
grarpamp
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Fri Sep 11 15:42:47 PDT 2020
https://qmap.pub/
https://qanon.pub/
Kindof hard to keep people and ideas down,
200k+ members in just one facebook channel.
New anonymous and uncensorable comms hubs will
form within the overlay networks and push out to clearnet.
Popular QAnon Website Shuts Down After Citigroup Employee
And Webmaster Doxxed And Stalked
Fri, 09/11/2020 - 17:20
The world's most popular QAnon post aggregator has
been taken offline, after its webmaster - a Citigroup
employee named Jason Gelinas - was [42]doxxed by
Logically.com and later stalked by Bloomberg's William
Turton - who drove out to his house for an interview.
After @LocgicallyAi published a report yesterday
naming Citigroup employee Jason Gelinas as the man
behind the most popular QAnon website, Qmap, I drove
to his home in New Jersey and briefly interviewed
him outside. [43]https://t.co/mXAUM0zuWK
— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) [44]September
11, 2020
Under the username 'QAppAnon,' Gelinas launched
Qmap.pub in May of 2018 under the username 'QAppAnon,'
- which boasted over 10 million visitors in July
according to SimilarWeb. The site aggregated 'Q
drops,' messages posted by an anonymous individual (or
individuals) to image board '8kun' promoting the
theory that President Trump is part of a military
intelligence operation by 'white hat' insiders to take
down the deep state - arresting and prosecuting
corrupt government officials and pedophiles.
[45][IMG]
Because '8kun' users often post graphic or
objectionable material, Qmap.pub provided followers of
the movement a 'clean' platform to follow Q drops.
Over the years, Q’s posts would move from the
4chan forum to 8chan, and finally to its later
iteration, 8kun. But these forums weren’t where
most of Q’s followers would go to access the
drops: most would find them neatly compiled on a
site called QMap, now the main platform on which
Q’s drops are published. For years it was believed
that QMap was an endeavour that was independent of
both the chan forums and the person or people
posting Q’s drops, but recent discoveries
concerning an IP address behind QMap raised
questions as to whether Jim Watkins, the owner of
8chan and 8kun, an elusive figure in his own right,
could also be Q. [46]As some QAnon researchers have
pointed out, however, the story of Q’s operations
does not end with Jim Watkins. -[47]Logically.com
Now, this is all that appears when one visits the
site:
[48][IMG]
When reached at home by Bloomberg's Turton and asked
about the Logically report, Gelinas said "I'm not
going to comment on any of that," adding "I'm not
going to get involved. I want to stay out of it."
Wearing an American flag baseball cap, Gelinas said
that QAnon is a “patriotic movement to save the
country.”
Hours after the initial contact from Bloomberg News,
the website was no longer accessible. -[49]Bloomberg
How did Logically track down Gelinas?
According to their report, the website used a
now-deleted Facebook post to track him down via email.
"Our investigation can reveal that QAPPANON is not
Watkins, but instead a New Jersey man in his forties
with prominent roles in technical analysis and IT
security for the banking sector.
QAPPANON’s email address was initially discovered
during our investigation into QMap’s translation
efforts and international reach. A now-deleted
Facebook post allowed us to trace the email to a CNET
download cache for the QMap app as well as a new app
in development called Armor of God.
...
An extraction of QAPPANON’s email address from the
URL led to their developer profile and list of created
apps on CNET. While the qmap app is well known at this
point, Armor of God is relatively new, having been
uploaded on the 18th June 2020."
And according to Gelinas' LinkedIn profile, he's an
information security analyst for Citigroup.
In August, Facebook followed [50]Twitter's July
decision to punish QAnon followers - [51]banning
hundreds of pages, groups and Instagram accounts tied
to the movement.
So - now that Gelinas has been outed as the man behind
the most popular QAnon site on the planet, which has
now been deactivated, what else does he have to worry
about?
42. https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey
44. https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1304498734382936064
46. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/who-is-qanon-jim-watkins-rumors/
49. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/qanon-website-shuts-down-after-n-j-man-identified-as-operator
50. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-nukes-7000-qanon-accounts-restricts-150000-more
51. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebook-bans-hundreds-qanon-groups-pages-and-instagram-accounts
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