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Bigfoot to Privacy@lemmy.ml • 4 months ago

Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal - Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

www.disruptionist.com

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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal - Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

www.disruptionist.com

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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
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  • ohellidk
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    66•4 months ago

    Remember when he said to “use signal”? Pepperidge farm remembers.

    • yeehaw
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      22•4 months ago

      https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153?mx=2

  • @Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
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    deleted by creator

    • @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      Got it. I’ll stop “using” the US government. /j

      • @Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
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    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      10•4 months ago

      A bunch of government agencies are being told to do business exclusively on X, The Everything App.

      Musk’s also trying to build out a financials tool within his ecosystem and to incentivize more people to do business in his preferred basket of shitcoins.

      He’s a monopolist, working with other monopolists to corner the Internet as a marketplace. He’s not looking to give people a choice to use other tools.

  • davel [he/him]
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    37•4 months ago

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

    • @gomp@lemmy.ml
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      He never said he wants free speech for everyone :) TBH the shame should be on those who believed that Musk could somehow be the first right-wing extremist in history that wished the people at large had more rights and more freedoms.

      • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        He never said he wants free speech for everyone

        Yes he fucking did. He called himself a “free speech absolutist” which was just a blatant lie just like every other sentence that has farted out of his Nazi lips.

  • MentalEdge
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    28•4 months ago

    “free speech absolutist”

  • m-p{3}
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    I’m surprised DOGE themselves aren’t using it to skirt FOIA.

    Or maybe they are.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      16•4 months ago

      oh they for sure are. also FOIA is probably dead forever. so. you know. be ready for that little announcement.

      • yeehaw
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        12•4 months ago

        privacy for me, but not for thee!

  • wuphysics87
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    15•4 months ago

    “Free speech extremist”

  • @vfreire85@lemmy.ml
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    15•4 months ago

    why would someone still be using x at this time for starters is something that baffles me.

    • @gomp@lemmy.ml
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      1•4 months ago

      Circle jerking, I guess? Same reason I use lemmy :)

  • NutWrench
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    10•4 months ago

    There must be a hundred third-party freeware apps that let you encrypt files. Heck, even zip archivers have a password protect option. If you’re a whistleblower, you’re going to be collecting data over long periods of time, not sending instant messages. You can use OnionShare (droid-ify) to create temporary TOR links if you really need to share a file quickly and untraceably.

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    8•4 months ago

    Time to donate to signal again

    • @icmpecho@lemmy.ml
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    • @root@lemmy.world
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      1•4 months ago

      Monthly for me

  • @Dalde@lemmy.ml
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    Didn’t he foster Signal in 2021? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153

  • @cavemeat@beehaw.org
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    3•4 months ago

    I’ve gotta donate the signal and spread the word, it’s been my messaging goat for years

  • @seonar22@lemmy.world
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    1•3 months ago

    least thick skinned wannabe “politician” I’ve ever seen.

  • @bananapinball@sh.itjust.works
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    1•4 months ago

    “blocks links to Signal” What does that even means? It’s not twitter; people are not sharing Signal links.

    • @root@lemmy.world
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      1•4 months ago

      Most likely invite links to various groups / contacts

  • @shir@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    0•4 months ago

    Well, them go Telegram? He would not want to block his right wing friends, too, would he?

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