To me it seems they are using the playbook from the Chinese Red Guard.
How ready is the Shadow Government to be exposed?
>https://theintercept.com/2017/01/13/obama-opens-nsas-vast-trove-of-warrantless-data-to-entire-intelligence-community-just-in-time-for-trump/
>"With access to the NSA’s intercepts, law enforcement could search Americans’ private information for evidence of criminality without going to a judge — a loophole privacy activists have called the “backdoor search loophole.”
Basically the Shadow Government can get raw data on any US citizen.
The only possible reason I can see for Q doing this is that if we look at what the Brown Shirts did we can figure out Antifa's next moves.