Cyber security pioneer and crypto advocate John McAfee will today go dark again, “for at least 48 hours”, he announced on Twitter.
Beginning today at around 10:00 AM EST I will be going dark for at least 48 hours. Do not be concerned by my absence.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 15, 2019
This followed on from a series of tweets regarding one of his body doubles, who went missing en route to the Blockchain Cruise event, where he was due to give McAfee’s keynote speech. Yep, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
.@JayPizzle88, my body double who was to give my keynote speech at the Blockchain Cruise, disappeared 7 days ago while on his way to meet the cruise. We are worried sick. Any information please contact me.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 15, 2019
My tweet about the disappearance of one of my body doubles – @JayPizzle88 – was met with many jokes. I blocked everyone who joked. Any pleas for re-instatement will fall on deaf ears.Trolling is one thing. Indifference toward your fellow human will not be tolerated on my page.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 15, 2019
We spoke with Jay the night before he was supposed to leave. All was fine and he was excited to go on the cruise. His flight was to leave the following morning. We know only that he did not show up for his flight and he was not seen at the airport.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 15, 2019
On the run
Last month, we reported McAfee’s belief that the US government would soon act in order to silence him. “I want you all to know that everything I have done, I have done for the cause of freedom. I want a world in which authorities discover crimes, not manufacture them. A free world,” he told his almost one million Twitter followers.
McAfee is on the run from US authorities who earlier this year indicted him, his wife and four members of his staff for tax fraud.
And during May a dramatic statement appeared on social media. “Developing events have made it necessary for John McAfee to go dark,” someone wrote on his Twitter account. “Please be advised that this account will be operated by staff until further notice.”
That was followed by a link to an interview with Newsweek, in which he said: “I’ve seen a lot of shit that people have not seen. I see a world in America that makes me want to cry”.
He added that “we are being lied to by the government from every single corner of the world. The CIA provides [info], which is deceptive, manipulative. The government provides information which is manipulative and deceptive. So if you ask me, for example, what my position is, on anything, how the f*** would I know? Because I don’t have any information that is real.”
Americans, he insisted, need to wake up and understand that they have a corrupt government, a system of slavery, in effect. “I mean we work for three to four to five months every year for the government for free, in terms of paying income taxes. Is that not slavery?”
McAfee has this week continued his campaign against the powers-that-be, tweeting out a link to an article entitled ‘Corruption’.
Corruption in America. Who should go first?https://t.co/BqDYFZAinW
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 14, 2019
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