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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,267 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:32 AM Tuesday

National monitoring of social media happening..man gets call 5 hrs after purchasing tshirtby the shooter

Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown https://share.google/cTusi6s1MpPihyZ8i

Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat. The Atlanta man, who asked not to be identified, says the post was merely a confirmation that he had purchased the same T-shirt that the accused killer wore (from an Illinois-based online shop).

The police officer told him that he was following up on an active FBI investigation of Kirk’s assassination, and warned that due to the political climate, posting such a photo was ill advised. The Atlanta man was confused and disturbed, he told me, that the police learned so quickly of his purchase and also knew of his private Discord post.

“He explains he is with the Naperville Police Department on behalf of an ongoing FBI investigation,” the Atlanta man told me, “that I committed no crimes and am in no trouble, but he needs to know why I sent a picture of the ‘terrorist,’ which I had to correct him on.”

The police officer did not seem to realize that the Atlanta man hadn’t posted a photo of the shooter, just another T-shirt with the same design. But the cop did know he’d sent the image to the private chat. Given that the call came from the same city as the eBay seller, it wasn’t clear how that police had access to his private Discord chat.

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National monitoring of social media happening..man gets call 5 hrs after purchasing tshirtby the shooter (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Tuesday OP
The dude did nothing wrong of course, but the Discord thing is easy AZJonnie Tuesday #1
That's going to piss off magas too............................. Lovie777 Tuesday #2
Everything is being watched by Big Brother. James48 Tuesday #3
"All your thoughts are belong to us." - G.O.P., Inc. BoRaGard Tuesday #4

AZJonnie

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1. The dude did nothing wrong of course, but the Discord thing is easy
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:37 AM
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It's all cloud-based and the conversations are known to be moderated, including via AI, which means Discord got a call from the FBI to look for postings of this t-shirt and found this guys. Apparently he's under the false impression that Discord is somehow "private". Welp, now he knows.

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