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/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

Oh signal is for sure going to be targeted soon, “they are doing illegal things on it, must be banned” = can’t have the proletariat be talking to each other in a way we can’t monitor.

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u/jameslosey Feb 17 '25

I doubt it, unless the administration finds an alternative for their own use. The first Trump administration found uses for signal to avoid records of their own communications such as for communications around January 6.

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u/AnOrneryOrca Feb 17 '25

The records don't matter if the law isn't real / one party owns its enforcement forever. I'm not sure they have much to worry about at this point re: any future accountability (from a legal standpoint). You have to hold an election to lose an election, and even if they hold one you know the era of actually counting votes to pick a winner is over.