r/technology Feb 17 '25

Social Media X is blocking links to Signal

https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors
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u/VeeDubBug Feb 17 '25

My sister has already spouted off on how the pedos and terrorists are using Signal after mom tried getting the family moved over to it.

I pointed out, well if encryption is the concern, isn't that a glowing review of the app?

She didn't like that. 💀😂 She then brought up how bad Discord is too.

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u/Asisreo1 Feb 17 '25

Did you know that pedophiles and terrorists breathe oxygen!!! Oxygen is just air for criminals! Boycott oxygen!

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u/Routine_Librarian330 Feb 17 '25

The same holds true of dihydrogenmonoxide. It has been found in both terrorists' and pedophiles' systems. A chemical analysis by British scientists has even found large quantities of dihydrogenmonoxide in babys' food! We need a ban NOW! DOWN WITH DIHYDROGENMONOXIDE! 

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u/Aimhere2k Feb 18 '25

And let's not forget hydrocarbons! Hydrocarbons are literally the foundation that pedos and terrorists are built on! The government needs to take ACTION and destroy all hydrocarbons, for the Greater Good!

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u/Long-Sleep8608 Feb 17 '25

I like how your mind works. That was very said, err, I ment posted, no, written. Shit, I need more coffee. Sorry.

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u/DigitalUnlimited Feb 17 '25

Well written, words in order and in sentences and paragraphs. Of all the things ever written, this is one of them!

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u/Long-Sleep8608 Feb 18 '25

Talk me good not today.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

They also drink water and eat food!

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u/OutsidePerson5 Feb 17 '25

After Musk took over Twitter a lot more pedophile material started showing up, and after he personally reinstated a Nazi account that also posted kiddie porn the pedos realized Twitter was now their place to be.

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u/PLeuralNasticity Feb 17 '25

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2024/11/26/tesla-named-deadliest-car-brand-in-america/76573878007/

I've been saying for a long time that he has never been anything but a puppet frontman for clandestine operations of the FSB for Putin or his allies ie. Netanyahu/Xi/Erdogan/Modi/MBS/Iran etc...

My profile is mostly comments about FSBelon

Imagine you were planning another coup. Would Teslas be good surveillance and then robomurdertaxis?

Would buying Twitter give you access to massive volumes of kompromat on huge swaths of individuals?

Would Starlink or PayPal give you any information that would be potentially valuable to find vulnerabilities? Starlink in the super rich especially with their yachts.

What neighborhoods do Teslas tend to be parked in and where do they tend to be driven to work and by what demographics?

Would full access to every camera on every Tesla potentially be valuable to gather intelligence?

Would Putin want very app associated with Elon or his businesses to be malware or have a malware build ready?

Just scratching the surface but I encourage people to look at your understanding of Elon and his companies through the lens of it all being on Putins orders, just like Trump.

https://cybernews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-russia-investment/

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-fanboy-shadowbanned-from-x-for-complaining-abou-1851639230

Elon is a kompromised pedophile Putin puppet and has been since before he started Zip2 and before his first trip to Russia in October 2001.

Trump since the eighties

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

Child Rape Tapes convey more complete control than anything. Almost all of their top puppets are owned through proof of them raping children. It's the only way the FSB/Mossad/CCP are comfortable investing so much power in them. Bribery doesn't come close to sufficient with how much financial/political power they concentrate in their upper echelon of puppets. Trump/Thiel/Vance/Peterson/Jordan/Carlson/Thomas/Diddy/Drake/MrBeast to name a very small sample across different parts of society. Many for a long time, but Trump since the eighties is one of the longest tenured.

In case people are confused who Produces/Distributes the vast majority of CSAM

Here's a bit about Ghislaines dad from Wikipedia.

"The Foreign Office suspected Maxwell of being a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia". He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[60] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: "He has done more for Israel than can today be told."[61]

https://www.torquenews.com/1083/tesla-exploded-bomb-after-fiery-crash-shrapnel-takes-down-passerby

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-workers-trained-autopilot-to-ignore-road-signs-so-1851642989

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/

"Of the 971 government requests Twitter has received since Musk took over six months ago, the company has fully complied with 808 of them and partially complied with 154, according to Rest of World’s report."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4457311-putin-praises-elon-musk-a-smart-guy/

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-disrupting-elon-musk-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-jamming-report-2024-5

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/first-edition-israel-icc-investigation

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-photo-with-ghislaine-maxwell-conversation-destroy-internet-report-2022-10

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/business/angela-chao-death/index.html

“I think there’s no stopping Elon Musk,” Putin told Carlson after the pundit asked him about the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence. “He will do as he sees fit. Nevertheless, you’ll need to find some common ground with him. Search for ways to persuade him. I think he’s a smart person. I truly believe he is. So you’ll need to reach an agreement with him because this process needs to be formalized and subjected to certain rules.”

Beware Leon's razor

"Incomeptence, in the limit, is indistinguishable from sabotage

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u/FewCelebration9701 Feb 17 '25

Is that Nick Fuentes by any chance? Kind of sad that I have to ask because reinstating those types of accounts happened more than once.

If it is, I never heard about the porn part of that. I guess it wouldn't really surprise me if it were about that person. Not exactly a paragon of virtue the things he believes, let alone the things he says out loud.

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u/OutsidePerson5 Feb 17 '25

Naah, it was Dominick McGee a rando Nazi troll most people have never heard of until he started posting explicit CSAM on his Twitter account. He was banned, per Twitter's policy. Later that day Elon Musk personally reinstated him to great cheering from the right wing crowd.

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u/tapdancingtoes Feb 17 '25

There was also another guy who posted a thumbnail from one of the most infamous “hurtcore” films and he unbanned the account.

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u/Outlulz Feb 18 '25

Trump just invited him to the White House to be a guest of honor for Black History Month by the way.

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u/OutsidePerson5 Feb 18 '25

Trump raped an underage girl at Epstein's Island, so it's not really surprising that he likes other pedos.

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u/xzxfdasjhfhbkasufah Feb 17 '25

Pedos use cars and houses. Only one thing to do.

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u/vintageballs Feb 17 '25

Well discord really is bad though. Not encrypted, dubious data use in the past.

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u/gamemaster257 Feb 17 '25

Source on dubious data use?

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u/DarkOverLordCO Feb 17 '25

Discord is not end-to-end encrypted (except for maybe voice channels, they're experimenting with e2ee for that), but they do still use encryption - both in transit (via HTTPS/TLS) and at rest.

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u/DM_ME_PICKLES Feb 17 '25

Not sure this really worth pointing out. It’s 2025, TLS should be a given. Shouldn’t even need to be mentioned as some kind of feature. When people talk about encryption in chat apps they mean E2E encryption. 

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u/BuzzBadpants Feb 17 '25

Well it’s in their TOS. Anything you share on their platform becomes their property to do what they want with

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u/haarschmuck Feb 17 '25

That’s not how it works.

Every platform has that clause because without it they could not display your content on the platform. You’re giving them a license to display the content on the platform however the copyright does not transfer from you to them.

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u/knowsshit Feb 18 '25

It is not end-to-end encrypted, but it is encrypted.

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u/CadeMan011 Feb 17 '25

I'm guessing she loves telegram, though, right?

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u/VeeDubBug Feb 17 '25

I actually have no idea on that one. She uses Facebook, Whatsapp, and Messenger predominately.

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u/ComprehensiveWord201 Feb 17 '25

I see she loves selling her data

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u/nilsph Feb 17 '25

*giving her data away

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u/j_demur3 Feb 17 '25

I don't have any issue with Signal being effectively a free for all, that's just the price of privacy and like, if people want to talk about criminal activities they'll always find a safe way to do it.

But then when it comes to WhatsApp, they tell us it's fully private and end-to-end encrypted with no compromises (apart from a report button that sends messages from your phone to HQ) and if that's true they have no knowledge or control about shady shit being discussed.

It's like, they either are secure and therefore there's nothing stopping anything that's happening on Signal happening there or they aren't and can see your messages despite insisting they can't. They can't win at one without losing at the other, like, it'll be interesting to see their response if a high-profile crime is or isn't stopped and it comes out that things were organised via WhatsApp.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Feb 18 '25

She may have been radicalized by anti-encryption propoganda from the UK, Australia, the EU, or the US.

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u/jimmythegeek1 Feb 17 '25

"Why should pedos and terrorists be the only ones to have the good stuff?"

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u/dolphin_spit Feb 17 '25

if you’re an outspoken person on the left, they think of you as a terrorist anyway.

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u/Kalavazita Feb 17 '25

You can still have your own special Signal club. Just saying.

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u/hirst Feb 17 '25

i hate discord because it moved everything to a walled garden, and their search functions are total ass. it's a poor attempt at a webpage/forum but they try to do so anyways.

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u/alnarra_1 Feb 17 '25

I mean I'm going to be 1000% honest with you. Signal is absolutely filled with criminal activity. There's a reason the 5 eyes tried to arrest their CEO.

BUTTTTTtttt that shit is also happening on virtually every platform with a semi private messaging system (telegram, discord, reddit dm's twitter dms etc.)

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u/OverQualifried Feb 18 '25

She’s just regurgitating nonsense

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u/Accurate_Pianist_232 Feb 18 '25

If you read the TOS for Discord you'd realize it is bad.

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u/FeelsGoodMan2 Feb 17 '25

What the fuck happened where Gen X and late millennials are now the cooked generation and boomers are starting to make sense again. Like the last 5-8 years absolutely fried the middle aged generation. I understand it's because they're dealing with the brunt of the economic downturns but shit it's not just economic stupidity, they're just....stupid.