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Elon Musk wants you to use Signal instead of Facebook. Here's what to know about the app
CNET ^ | 11 Jan 2021 | Rae Hodge

Posted on 01/11/2021 7:02:59 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

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To: PIF

Subsidized billionaire.


21 posted on 01/11/2021 7:20:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Poser

All you have to know is how did you decide he was nuts? Where did you get that information?


22 posted on 01/11/2021 7:20:21 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: PGR88

WeChat - based in China is a mandated use app - to maintain a descent social credit score


23 posted on 01/11/2021 7:22:25 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: L,TOWM

Yes, most creative people are “a bit off” to one degree or another.


24 posted on 01/11/2021 7:23:24 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: RobertoinAL

Why haven’t some Special Ops guys gone to Silicon Valley and rounded up

That’s not what the military does ... ever. That’s the job of a civilian law agency


25 posted on 01/11/2021 7:23:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: usconservative

“CW2 is here, whether you all are are ready for it or not”

The only question is, what will happen to make it go hot?


26 posted on 01/11/2021 7:24:15 AM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: Alas Babylon!

If and when the right is reduced to carrier pigeons for our secure communications, there will at least be some humor in watching the left call for eradication of a species.


27 posted on 01/11/2021 7:24:37 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: AT7Saluki

I just read the Wiki about Signal Messenger and it’s not clear that it is owned by Dorsey in any way. Do you have a substantive source that states it clearly?


28 posted on 01/11/2021 7:26:26 AM PST by Frapster (Don't tread on me.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Nothing is secure. Our governor and his cronies got ran out of town because a disgruntled crony kept screenshots of their Telegram chats and then published them when he was fired.


29 posted on 01/11/2021 7:28:58 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: Ebenezer
According to his biography on Wikipedia, “Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood and was once hospitalized after a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs.” Looking at what Big Tech is doing, Elon knows bullies when he sees them.

Then it's possible he's 'one of us' in some ways...

30 posted on 01/11/2021 7:29:35 AM PST by GOPJ (Seventy-three million citizens thought the election was rigged - enough to start a new party.)
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To: Clean_Sweep
The only question is, what will happen to make it go hot?

When all methods of free expression have been denied, there is but one recourse left.

And the answer to your question is: we're about to find out -- sooner rather than later.

31 posted on 01/11/2021 7:30:14 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: PIF

I don’t think any are on the side of truth, justice, and the Constitution. They all seem corrupted, like the courts.


32 posted on 01/11/2021 7:33:31 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: BiglyCommentary

There is a massive difference between a liberal and a leftist. Liberals are usually terribly misguided idealists who screw things up because they can’t face reality. They aren’t violent and value freedom even if they don’t really know what it is.

Leftists are violent totalitarians who hate everyone who disagrees with them and have no problem eliminating — by any means necessary — any opposition. Even those who agree with them 99% of the time.

There are as few liberals left in power as their are true conservatives. The ruling class of this nation is mostly composed of corrupt corporatists (republicans) and leftists (democrats), and they have no problem allying together. For now this is a useful alliance for the left because the corporatists are easily bought whores.

But the left is all-consuming, eventually turning on itself when there is no one else left to hate. The corrupt corporatists will eventually be thrown into the sausage machine when they aren’t needed anymore.


33 posted on 01/11/2021 7:34:04 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: central_va

Subsidized billionaire.


So what? He’s not subsidized. His corporations are, but to a minor extent since most of their monies come from fund raising and bank loans.

Many big corporations and industries receive federal dollars. Its what they do with the money that is either good or bad. Does the company improve lives or does the company enrich itself? Musk’s companies clearly improve lives.


34 posted on 01/11/2021 7:35:53 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Musk’s SpaceX also owns the Starlink satellite internet system. Low latency broadband under SpaceX control.


35 posted on 01/11/2021 7:36:49 AM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Elon will come through BANK ON IT!! I have been talking about Elon for weeks now he has been launching satellites into space for internet purposes he could see this coming AND God Bless him he has moved to the great republic of Texas!! Elon has had ENOUGH of this tyranny!!


36 posted on 01/11/2021 7:39:24 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: cll

Gotta ask... As a Puerto Rican (PR) FReeper, what’s the sense of folks there wanting to become a state or stay a territory (or even independence)?

Seems to me, every time a referendum is voting on, PR’s wish to stay as a territory.

Will the democrat threat of making PR a state have any sway on people?

Shoot, what the hell am I saying...

They’ll just get Dominion Systems for the next vote!


37 posted on 01/11/2021 7:41:04 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Just consider that nothing is secure on the internet. JUst as everything ever posted on FR is there forever in the cyber cloud (to be used against you when the time is right.)

Everything on Signal, just like other messaging app and email provider will be hoovered up by the deep state.

The Comrades don't like anti-Communists.


38 posted on 01/11/2021 7:41:47 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: usconservative
Starlink - Elon's satellite internet service is almost ready for widespread use. No more Comcast or ATT and I am thinking Musk has found a way to avoid all the Big Brother server farms and will enable us to communicate without censorship.

If we can be independent of Big Brother we will always be able to resist.

I am signing up for Starlink asap and no more of my $$ to NBC MSNBC Golf Channel, etc

39 posted on 01/11/2021 7:41:57 AM PST by corkoman
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To: Alas Babylon!

I wish Musk built an alternative to Facebook.


40 posted on 01/11/2021 7:43:35 AM PST by Wuli
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