Joey is about to find out that his “White Privilege” Card has been declined.
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Joey Maness is a proud Proud Boy. His Telegram bio reads: “Proud Western Chauvinist who refuses to apologize”.
Here are a number of unapologetic selfies he shared, sporting Proud Boy attire and memorabilia.
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We found Joey from his posts in Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio’s Telegram chat.
The Proud Boys are a white nationalist hate group who actively spread disinformation, and require members to engage in physical violence as a condition of membership.
Maness explains how he breaks into hotel network closets, and installs his own equipment. He sets up a hot spot with the same name as a real network, forcing devices to connect to his hot spot instead.
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He describes how he intercepts people’s connections to redirect any website request to some popular right wing disinformation sites.
Joey even posted a photo of some of the equipment he uses.
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Greensboro Ramada @by_wyndham should probably check their network closets for any unknown equipment!
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On August 5, Maness responded to a suggestion that someone attack against j6 suspect information website, with the intent to take it down.
Joey responded, saying “working on it lol”.
He added, “need to make sure it’s not hosted on gov stacks”.
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Maness has recently been convicted for hacking.
He was sentenced to probation in March 2019 for unauthorized computer access.
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It’s not the first time he’s been in trouble w the law. Maness has spent over 2y in prison for a dizzying array of crimes over the years, including obtaining property under false pretenses, larceny, ten separate instances of cheating people, and an assault by strangulation.
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Joseph Maness is also the owner and chief technician at Triad Computer Works in Greenboro NC.
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He wasn’t too hard to find. Here’s a photo he shared from inside his shop.
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Another easy clue to his identity, was this screenshot that he shared about a social account restriction notice.
And a sloppy failed redaction of his name with the comment, “Oops”.
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Here is Maness replying to a Nazi account, in moral support, with a post forwarded from an openly neo-Nazi Telegram channel.
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Maness has made numerous extremely violent, misogynist, homophobic comments in the same chat.
Joey’s computer biz is public facing. He has access to people’s data, and every aspect of their overall security. With Covid-19, he is also trusted with people’s heath.
This reviewer might be interested to know that he is very adamantly against the coronavirus vaccinations.
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