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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 102 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Great, free publicity for Signal!

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago

That's what I thought when I first saw this

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 58 points 6 days ago

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

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 59 points 6 days ago (16 children)

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

[–] Rob1992@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 days ago

Oddly, many reporters still do

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 35 points 6 days ago

That sounds more like free advertisement for Signal

"Our product is banned on twitter!"

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Man... I'm getting tired of this guy.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] theherk@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Absolutist… ish

Hey, that's only for billionaires.

[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

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

[–] liquidthex@reddthat.com 21 points 6 days ago

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

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is huge. But there's such an onslaught of stuff coming it doesn't get the attention needed

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 12 points 6 days ago

They are flooding the zone... The real crime is actually buried while fake news running distrations with bullshit

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago

The Free Speech Absolutist everybody!

[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago
[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] firepenny@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 6 points 6 days ago

should be a lesson to those excited about iphones using starlink

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

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

What a shame...

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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