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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.

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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

Bigfoot to Privacy@lemmy.ml • 4 months ago
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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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  • @Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
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    deleted by creator

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      12•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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    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.

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

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    Time to donate to signal again

    • @icmpecho@lemmy.ml
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      deleted by creator

    • @root@lemmy.world
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      Monthly for me

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

    • The Bard in GreenA
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      Who says they aren’t? Elon has zero problems with double standards.

    • 🖖USS-Ethernet
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      They fall under the presidential records act so they aren’t subject to FOIA until the 2030s.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        They claim they fall under the Presidential Records Act, but they’re lying.

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

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

  • NutWrench
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    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.

  • wuphysics87
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    “Free speech extremist”

  • @vfreire85@lemmy.ml
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    why would someone still be using x at this time for starters is something that baffles me.

    • @gomp@lemmy.ml
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      Circle jerking, I guess? Same reason I use lemmy :)

  • @cavemeat@beehaw.org
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    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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    least thick skinned wannabe “politician” I’ve ever seen.

  • @shir@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Well, them go Telegram? He would not want to block his right wing friends, too, would he?

  • @bananapinball@sh.itjust.works
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    “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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      Most likely invite links to various groups / contacts

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