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/CIDR-ClassB Feb 17 '25

Nope. Signal is Elon’s preferred method of communication, as it is for many high-profile people even in government.

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u/One_pop_each Feb 17 '25

We use it in the military bc it’s the most secure compared to whatsapp/telegram

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 Feb 20 '25

thats because neither of those are secure

ones meta owned, the others russian owned lmao

and wechat is chinese