by pulisse on 2/5/25, 4:58 PM with 381 comments
by code_runner on 2/5/25, 8:30 PM
For someone who claims to love freedom of speech, Elon is pretty quick to determine who can say what, and how much access to _his_ data people have.
by dgrin91 on 2/5/25, 5:50 PM
by viraptor on 2/5/25, 8:06 PM
I don't think anyone from the new DOGE would actually be helpful in responses anyway.
by davidt84 on 2/5/25, 5:18 PM
by adrien79 on 2/5/25, 10:27 PM
by Aurornis on 2/5/25, 9:38 PM
> The messages indicate that, under Elon Musk’s leadership, DOGE is actively taking steps to make sure its communications and records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act,
> This would make DOGE a Presidential Records Act entity, meaning records it creates are not FOIAble until years after a president leaves office rather than a Federal Records Act entity, which would make its records FOIAble now.
Regardless of where you stand on the topic of cutting federal budgets, the lack of transparency should be alarming to everyone.
Broad actions like this should have the utmost transparency, not a team of lawyers doing their best legal maneuvering to keep it out of the public's reach.
by smb06 on 2/5/25, 11:19 PM
by yapyap on 2/5/25, 8:43 PM
by 127raf on 2/5/25, 11:17 PM
Salesforce gets all the Slack data and can do whatever it likes. This is utter incompetence.
by torginus on 2/5/25, 10:48 PM
Why can't software come in a box, like it used to - then it can run on a machine that I control, and only talk to machines that I control too.
Then it's not a matter of belief and blind trust and hoping against hope that nobody's spying on me - it's the matter of basic common sense and due diligence.
by Havoc on 2/6/25, 12:35 AM
by nabeards on 2/6/25, 9:09 PM
by wnevets on 2/5/25, 9:53 PM
by phendrenad2 on 2/6/25, 4:54 AM
by andy_ppp on 2/5/25, 10:40 PM
by 9283409232 on 2/5/25, 5:37 PM
So who watches the Watchmen?
by thr0waway001 on 2/5/25, 8:35 PM
by waltercool on 2/5/25, 6:41 PM
Why are you protecting Slack business?
Even at my company I was in charge to replace Slack because is damn expensive in comparison to other options like Teams or Rocket Chat.
by paganel on 2/5/25, 9:36 PM
The journalists from Politico have just been ousted by DOGE has having had received $8 million in annual funding from USAID (another Government-run institution that has been ousted by the same DOGE), so I can understand how come Musk would want to keep DOGE's dealing away from journalists that might see this agency as very antithetic to their (the journalists') material well-being.