JUST blocked by carrier from texting a friend after sending a link from here... This is crazy.
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If it was your cell phone carrier that blocked the messages, that is just a sign of pure desperation.
If your friend wants to get messages from you, I suggest
https://element.io/
Encrypted. No middlemen know what you are saying to each other.
is 'signal' any good?
yes, i and about 20 people have a group chat we send political stuff on...plus, the FBI cant look at your messages like they can with a cell phone text
Good to know. And good question u/suave200 .
I'll throw in my 2 cents as well:
Personally not sure of signal, I'm an old school PC haccer who never got into cellular telephony and avoid it because I can... But I have some very paranoid friends with a lot of credentials under their belts and Signal consistently comes up as their preferred choice of communication, if they're force to use cells.
That said I'm comfortable anonymizing and securing a PC to communicate. Not so much mobile. You've got to know your system inside and out, and lock it down at root to ensure best Operating Practices. That's the Achilles Heel of any application, Signal is no exception. I assume, scratch that - KNOW, these paranoid friends have their phones isolated way better than I do. In fact I do them a favor by not engaging in their Signal chat. I'm not going to poison their well.
The only surefire mode of comms is to do it out in the open with vague and/or ambiguous language like the elites do. Planning something? Present a “hypothetical scenario” in story form and get feedback to iterate the “hypothetical scenario” and present it again. Repeat until “hypothetical scenario” makes for a good story.
Linking articles to each other? Use link shorteners and/or archive links. Pic blocked? Scale it a little or rotate it and take a screenshot. Resend.
Sending an opinion you agree with or facts that you recognize? Leave a comment with it like: can you believe this? Or what does this mean can someone help? Etc.
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You are kidding yourself if you actually think that.
Signal is my “go to” app. Phone and messages are 2 way encrypted. As they are internet the phone company is not involved
By Boss is based. We are both Fed Employees and both not taking the Vax. We discuss this and other stuff at length.
Very pleased with Signal
IDK. My son who is very tuned into tech stuff insisted we switch from Google Hangouts to Element.IO and it has worked great. There is a phone app for Android and a app for your PC. It is a little clunky to set up but nobody can censor you because they don't know what you are sending. They only thing they can do is ban the entire application, if they decide to do that based on suspicion of somebody committing wrongthink.
Just add a few spaces in the link and let your friend reassemble the link on his end. Or, if you're able to turn off the hyperlink, that usually works, too.
Thank you!!
I always enclose the periods with parenthese, like this https://greatawakening(.)win
Great, easy solution! Thank you!
At first I was like WTF!!!! Haha - but she definitely didn't.
Is it your carrier, or the app?
Happens frequently to me when I try to send certain links or images to my wife via WhatsApp or Telegram. They are desperate.
Just insane!
you can also try tiny url. I tried sending my friend a link to the frontline doctors site, and it wouldn't send. Changed the url with tiny and it went through fine.
That's a great idea! Thank you!
Stop using SMS for fucks sake. Get LINE or something else that the carrier has no control over. Also, I hope you're using a VPN.
My goodness. Did I hit a nerve? 🤣 While that may work wonderfully for you, it isn't currently going to work for me. And.... Gasp! I'm not using a VPN.
Enjoy your SMS text being blocked by your carrier!
Which carrier? Android or iPhone?
This is a good question. My only other way of contact is FB (I know - don't start in on me) so I reached out there to try to figure it out.
Yet you didn't answer.
Reading your other responses to this, I think this whole OP is fake at this point. No offense, but, yawn.
I don't know if the OP post is fake but I can confirm that I have a relative using AT&T and when I send her links from this site they are not delivered to her. I don't receive any notification that they aren't delivered but my relative asked me what I was talking about when I told her to "check this out" and nothing was delivered so we decided to trouble shoot the problem and determined there were a number of websites blocked from delivery by her carrier. So now I text her the link AND send her an image screenshot. At this point she is still receiving the images.
Wait, do you have the Facebook App on your phone?
If so, it's very doubtful your carrier is doing that. It's Facebook Messenger, which by default, gets sideloaded along with FB and hijacks SMS.
I think most of the standard encryption stuff has been hacked by the NSA or the CIA. Quantum computers can beat encryption that relies on prime factorization. Since the government is about 50 years ahead on computer and comm.s tech., you can be certain that they can crack it if they need too.
Nevertheless it probably makes it harder for the local field offices to deal with your comm.s.
Why not take this further? Speak to someone (at the very least, your state reps and your US reps) but maybe even an attorney? Many will charge for the time you take only, so if you're well prepared with your questions, it might only take 15-20 minutes and that's all you'd be billed for. (Check first though.) If you do take it further, let us know! Thanks.
Cancel that fucking shit
get your friends on Signal or Telegram
This is with an older friend, so change is hard 😔
These workaround ideas are really great....and helpful.
How are we accepting censorship as a thing we need to work around vs. a violation of our freedoms that we must immediately combat? I like the idea of class actions to oblivion for these companies as a start and if that doesn't work, I'm good with war.