He says he wants free speech, but all he ever wanted was to replace the previous censorship and propaganda regime with his own.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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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.
"free speech absolutist"
I'm surprised DOGE themselves aren't using it to skirt FOIA.
Or maybe they are.
Who says they aren't? Elon has zero problems with double standards.
oh they for sure are. also FOIA is probably dead forever. so. you know. be ready for that little announcement.
privacy for me, but not for thee!
They fall under the presidential records act so they aren't subject to FOIA until the 2030s.
why would someone still be using x at this time for starters is something that baffles me.
Circle jerking, I guess? Same reason I use lemmy :)
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.
"Free speech extremist"
It is shocking how addicted people are to this app that no quantity of diminished functionality will make them leave. It's like that Russian opiate that makes all your skin fall off. Crazy shit.
It's called крокодил I think
It's said as krokodil correct? Means crocodile because your skin will look like a crocodile's. I watched a video I wish I'd never seen where some medical workers took off a user's boot and his foot came off with it.
That's exactly right.
I feel the same way about the current state of television.
Burn your TV.
Nice try Elon.
Just like the seventies, anarchy is the only way forward to get out of this lying twisted thieving divisive oligarch of politics running my country for the last quarter century plus.
This just means you wrap your signal links in a URL shortener.
A slight hassle; but all the more reason to hate the muskratt.
We should be quietly linking anyone with a need to send a signal link to a nice privacy respecting URL shortening instance somewhere that will basically delete the link in 3-7 days unless told otherwise to keep it around by the user at creation.
Heck; host your own URL shortener while you're at it.
questions, not to you specifically, but to anyone who stumbles upon this thread.
- what would be a decent URL shortener that meets this criteria?
- any pointers to host one's own shortener? mainly i'm thinking of registrars, but also the mechanics to transform links and store data for a few days
Time to donate to signal again
I've gotta donate the signal and spread the word, it's been my messaging goat for years
Isn't it strange that when you believe in an oligarch, they never disappoint.