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/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/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/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.