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Elon Musk's X blocks links to the messaging app that DOGE whistleblowers use to communicate (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

App in question = Signal

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago

Free speech absolutist

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Of course. Absolute free speech - for his people 😉

Anti Commercial-AI license

[+] Scoopta@programming.dev -6 points 2 years ago

This actually frustrates the crap out of me because when he first bought it I had high hopes for the direction he planned to take the platform in...and then he banned elonjet...and the silly rules just keep coming.

[-] ahornsirup@feddit.org 19 points 2 years ago

Which direction? "Absolute" free speech? You had high hopes for ...more racism, misogyny, and homo- and transphobia? Because that's the type of speech that was "censored" before Elon's takeover.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago

Sounds like you didn't know who Elon was back then. Or you were a naive.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't really pay any attention to him until he started becoming mainstream...and I will say the disappointment has been annoying.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The fascist authoritarianism keeps coming

[-] Fashim@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Gee I'd be frustrated too, not at the direction Musk took twitter rather because I'd be deaf dumb and blind to think like this.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

You had high hopes for the billioniare narcissist?

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago

Ur gonna get downvotes to shit for supporting free speech

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

No, he's going to get downvoted to shit for having been stupidly naive enough to have taken Musk at his word.

Everybody who was paying any attention at all and had two brain cells to rub together knew what Musk was long before the "free speech absolutist" claim.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry I didn't pay that much attention to musk before he started going mainstream? I don't make it a point to keep track of every billionaires flaws unless they become relevant to my life.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

He's going to get downvotes because the only speech censored on Twitter before Musk was extreme bullshit like neo-Nazis.

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

well X links got blocked on Lemmy, so i guess he wanted to make it fair

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Surprised Pikachu face.

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