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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

www.disruptionist.com

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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

www.disruptionist.com

Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

via https://mastodon.nl/users/Jigsaw_You/statuses/114018619621784503

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    They fear open source software because it is one of the only thing that threatens their technofascist hegemony.

    This only further proves that we are investing in platforms that are chipping away at them.

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    https://signal.org/

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    most likely a spam detection issue.

    I wish europe banned anhy of the american social media, my applications would finally have a chance. But europeans won’t do that because they are huge pussies when it comes to americans. Unlike the chinese who created a whole internet universe for themselves, and they don’t even bother translating it to english anymore

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    It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      The first step would probably be to try and revoke their tax exempt non profit status. But I’m confident the Signal Foundation would at that point just move to another jurisdiction. Maybe Canada, Switzerland or something like that.

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        Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that

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          Canada going to be 52nd state–after Greendland 😆😆 (just kidding)

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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            Would Mexico and Panama be the 53rd and 54th then?

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    I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time

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    He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.

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    I hope Signal doesnt end up getting outlawed in the US. Elon musk seems to be against it now, and he has a lot of power these days.

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      There’s a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it

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        And when they come, oh boy do they roll over and give it to them.

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    That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal

    “Our product is banned on twitter!”

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    Man… I’m getting tired of this guy.

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      …only just now?

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    Now if more is Americans would listen and move this platform.

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    And yet, sadly, there are only like 5 people in my entire contact list who use it.

    What a shame…

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    but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.

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      deleted by creator

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        Oh thats going to be bad news when musk sells them all that info

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      The people who unfortunately have to get government updates from the place. After Facebook became a pain, Twitter became (for a while, when you didn’t have to log in) a pretty decent way to update people on things like roadworks or weather warnings.

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      That’s still half the US population though.

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      Oddly, many reporters still do

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      Everyone who’s not a paranoid leftist uses X; I find current information about every subject I’m interested in seconds

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        You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons “odd hand gesture” in your bedroom at night.

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        Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

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          “Gotta find a way, a better way…”

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        Wrong, the science community is slowly switching to bluesky

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          And a bunch of them are on mastodon

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        Lol, Alex Jones style research. Using memes and headlines as news.

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        You don’t find iinformation, you find hot takes. Xitter is a cesspool if you want to learn about anything.

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        You sound like you’re about to lose your farm

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        sounds like you do your own research

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      Joking for real, or seriously for real? The vast majority of people that used twitter are still using twitter. This applies to users in the united states, of course, but it especially applies to those in the entire rest of the world, where elon’s shit largely hasn’t crossed the culture/language barrier, or doesn’t matter to people.

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    So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.

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    Free speech readings, increasing! Liberty levels, maximum! Freedom metrics, exploding!!! IMA BUSSSS!!!..oh nvm, the techno-fascist douchebag was a lying hypocrite the whole time.

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    The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!

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