The best endorsement you could get for moving to Signal.

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New certified Signal classic

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Twitter should have been regulated as a common carrier and one rich asshole shouldn’t have been allowed to buy it, regardless of their politics

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Most social media should be public domain or at least have standardised open APIs, it’s the logical way to go for a free society with healthy governments and institutions. As it is right now it’s like private companies owning the streets…

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Honestly I feel all news and social messenging services would be better served if they were forced to be public owned.

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Supposedly they’re unblocked again, but there’s been no explanation from Xitter about the issue. Definitely seems suspicious that this happened while DOGE is having trouble with whistleblowers using Signal, though.

https://gizmodo.com/x-briefly-blocked-then-unblocked-signal-links-as-federal-workers-seek-security-2000564966

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They have a pattern of trying something and seeing how far they can get. Then they’ll say it was an oversight or a joke.

Someone recently called it similar to “reconnaissance in force” by the military – you go out with an uncommitted force and learn from the kind of resistance you get so you can be more effective.

The point is “mistakes” like these are not benign, or at least should not be treated as benign, since we can’t ever really know for sure.

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Yeah. I thought it was important context that they had backpedalled, but I did not intend to downplay the severity of the issue.

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Been using Signal for years. Love it.

Makes sense than an anti-free speech dipshit like Elon Musk would oppose it.

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same. No stupid gimmicks and whatever. Just secured messaging.

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