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0 pointsadastra221y ago0 comments

What is sus about Signal?

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Federal entities require transparency and various rules to be followed to enable investigations and oversight. Remember when a certain political party was concerned about somebody’s emails?

The signal of using signal for running the business is that by working there you’re likely committing a crime every day by working there. If you’re not DJT’s bff, or when Elon gets kicked out of cool kids club, you’re boned.

adastra22OP1y ago

DOGE is not a government entity.

richiricho1y ago

The ignorance that you can just 'fix' a very old, grown on purpose structure by having some signal chats, is very high.

compass_copium1y ago

Governmemt agencies are supposed to have publicly available records

InsideOutSanta1y ago

The funny thing is that the "Department of Government Efficiency" is not a government department, or any kind of official government entity. It is probably (or will be) a federal advisory committee. Federal advisory committees have official rules on open meetings and reporting.

So the fact that they think it's a good idea to just start a bunch of chats on Signal should be surprising, but it's Trump and Elon, so I guess it's just another thing in a long list of insane things that just happen, and we just kind of ignore them and pretend that everything is fine.

totallynothoney1y ago

I think he's saying that "running" DOGE via a messanger app sounds more like some cryptobro hustle university / shitpost chat group than a serious organization. The description in the blog of working there that sounds like cokehead bender doesn't help.

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