• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Poster was made fun of in the past for saying Signal gave metadata to the feds. He has a learning disability (regarded = deliberately misspelled R slur). They’re looking for someone else to corroborate the metadata claim.

    That’s my interpretation at least.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      They did a blog post about how the feds had made a second attempt to get metadata from them and they could only provide two fields of information: the date the account was created and the last time it connected to the service.

      It’s in the public record as well if I’m not mistaken.

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      2 months ago

      “Retarded” is not a slur. It’s a medical term. “Idiot” is a slur that roughly means the same thing, though not nearly as far.

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        2 months ago

        “Idiot” is a slur that roughly means the same thing

        “idiot”, “moron”, “cretin” and “imbecile” were all medical terms once and described different levels of intellectual disability, but they fell out of use and are now considered offensive. language changes, and context is important.