The Domain Troll Behind Pro-Trump Stunts

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-domain-troll-behind-pro-trump-stunts

 

At 9:13 p.m. on Friday night, Jack Posobiec tweeted a shaky video from the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park with the caption: “BREAKING: Julius Ceasar [sic] Gets SHUTDOWN.”

The video depicts a woman, later revealed to be Laura Loomer, walking onstage during the assassination scene yelling, “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right.” Security was ushered to the stage as the crowd booed and Loomer was taken off. Posobiec then stands up, still filming the scene, and begins yelling, “YOU ARE ALL GOEBBELS” (pronounced “gerbils,” but with a hard g) until he too is taken away by security.

After the video was shared by prominent right-leaning figures like Sean Hannity and far-right publications online, the hashtag #FreeLaura immediately caught fire on Twitter. Some started to link to FreeLaura.com, which drove to a fundraising site to cover Loomer’s legal fees.

However, eagled-eyed users on Twitter quickly noticed that FreeLaura.com had been purchased the day of the event—and hours before Loomer rushed the stage—by the owner of the pro-Trump website therebel.media.

Ezra Levant, the founder of Canadian far-right and pro-Trump website therebel.media, bought the website at 2:07 p.m. ET, six hours before the play began, according to domain records.

That is not the only domain purchased under Levant’s name and email address this week, The Daily Beast has found. FreeLaura.com is just one of 280 other domains registered under Levant’s email address, including several other pre-emptive political domains like ResignHillary.com and HumaForPrison.com, both registered less than two weeks before the 2016 election.

Levant purchased SaveFletcher.com shortly after 4 p.m. one day before Loomer was ejected from “Julius Caesar,” according to domain records discovered using DomainTools.

Levant did not respond to a request for comment about the identity of who “Fletcher” might have been, or whether he or she was in the audience that night.

[CaliCat 3,957]

LOL. It's official. Canadians really hate us! 

 

First they send us Ted Cruz, and now this:

 

 Canadian far-right and pro-Trump website therebel.media,

Edited June 27, 2017 by CaliCat

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

35 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

LOL. It's official. Canadians really hate us! 

 

First they send us Ted Cruz, and now this:

 

 Canadian far-right and pro-Trump website therebel.media,

blame Canada!

[CaliCat 3,957]

11 hours ago, ccneat said:

blame Canada!

 

They are already taking so much #### from us, we need to give them a break.