[8bithero]

So a few days ago Elon Musk blocked all links to Signal from the X platform and now this... Could be a coincidence but the timing sure is sus.

[rpastuszak]

I'm not going to psychoanalyse the brain parasite, but I imagine that the reason to do it could be as petty as shadow banning people with Fediverse (e.g. mastodon) handles in their bios shortly after he took over.

Also:

> Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE. > from https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to...

Btw, I don't live in the US but I sketched a simple tool to prevent X from censoring Signal.me links: https://link-in-a-box.vercel.app

[master-lincoln]

Only signal.me links were blocked as far as I understood. Other signal links kept working. (I have no first hand knowledge as I left Twitter when the owner changed)

[inor0gu]

Unrelated most likely, signal.me is a legitimate domain used by Signal. Doubt twitter is so on top of Threat Analysis when they fumbled their own redirects from twitter.com to x.com for a while.

[willy_k]

Not really, the domain block was reportedly due to increased spam activity from that domain and performed automatically, so it would follow that a write up would come a few days later. That is if they are related, which is not a given.

[immibis]

Musk calls everything he doesn't like "spam", so of course it was.

[mrtesthah]

>So a few days ago Elon Musk blocked all links to Signal from the X platform and now this... Could be a coincidence but the timing sure is sus.

Not surprising considering Russian Oligarchs enabled Musk's takeover of Twitter:

https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli...