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Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
(www.disruptionist.com)
The irony. I believe this tweet gave Signal a huge international boost.
Yeah, so much traffic it actually crashed the servers for a little bit
Meanwhile, Mike Pence still hanging around on Facebook.
Whatever happened to that guy anyway?
He has a very low bar by most of the developed world's standards, but he refused to lower it further for maga, so he's history now.
He was a conservative, not a MAGA supporter in my opinion. At the end of the day I have to see it as conservatives have ideals that do not align with mine, but MAGA is a group that believes that their ideals matter more than the people's freedoms. They believe tearing apart a representative democracy is fine, so long as their ideology prospers at the moment, but it is VERY short sighted as their ideology isn't why the leaders of MAGA is reforming it. Once they have reformed it the conservatives who supported MAGA will no longer have much say in anything, their votes won't matter. The oligarchs will decide what size rations they/we deserve, and we all know those rations are shrinking and shrinking.
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Mike Pence still hanging around
Man Trump supporters won't quit huh?
He suffered the same fate that any Republican will who stops kissing Trump's feet. Pence is a fucking nutbag but even he refused to stand behind Trump's shitfuckery at the end. Now he's been ostracized.
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That's quite a strong endorsement for Signal.
I agree
Damn I should use signal
Absolutely
Free Speech Absolutist 🤣
He meant "free speech abolitionist", easy typo to make.
Great, free publicity for Signal!
That's what I thought when I first saw this
He only cares about free speech when he can control what and whom it is flooded to. If you disagree with him, it will get automatically prioritized for the trash heap and chances are his critics will have worked it out of their system to bother complaining somewhere else, giving him a two for one. The russian troll factory strategy: https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712
but for real, who is still using x? i thought it was just a bunch of mouth breather magas at this point.
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.
Oddly, many reporters still do
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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.
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.
Didn't the MAGA insurrection use Signal to coordinate their efforts?
Wait wait........yes, follow dear leader to an app that keeps your history and doesn't encrypt at rest. You have nothing to hide and nothing to fear.
No, they used Telegram because they're idiots and don't understand privacy.
Man... I'm getting tired of this guy.
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Free speech!
Absolutist… ish
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That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal
"Our product is banned on twitter!"
Those billionaires need to look out for eachother.
I say it again and again, and I cant wrap my head around how nobody would agree or straight up kill for this belief.
But why.. Why wont people think of the SHAREHOLDERS?!?!! ;((((
Devastating..
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Free speech absolution guy who promotrd Signal not that long ago, only likes free speech (and most likely only signal) for me but not for thee
an American permutation of the CCP’s WeChat app model where the American government has final and singular authority to monitor and surveil all payments, domestic travel and communications of American citizens.
https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense
I know things are defcon level insane,but reading that, the as is way they phrase and apply the terms, by someone with that specific set of skills, makes things sound (they are) so much more malicious.
Welcome to America 2.0 : death to america, hello network state.
So, basically, you can be 100% sure that he has the ability to read your messages on other platforms.
This is huge. But there's such an onslaught of stuff coming it doesn't get the attention needed
They are flooding the zone... The real crime is actually buried while fake news running distrations with bullshit
It is a matter time before they try to get it banned.
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The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!
I think I remember him endorsing signal years ago which gave it at big boost at the time
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