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Elon Musk Wants Answers About Apple’s Support Of Censorship
thefederalist ^ | 11/28/2022 | tristan justice

Posted on 11/29/2022 7:48:10 PM PST by bitt

New Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed that Apple threatened to suspend Twitter from its app store, ‘but won’t tell us why.’

Apple suspended most of its advertising on Twitter, according to the blue bird app’s new CEO Elon Musk on Monday. Now, Twitter’s chief is asking questions about Apple’s censorship practices to his more than 119 million followers.

“Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter,” Must wrote. “Do they hate free speech in America?”

LBRY, a publisher that describes itself as the “bitcoin” of publishing, outlined the company’s own experience with Apple censorship in a response to Musk’s post.

“During Covid, Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned,” the company wrote back. “If we did not filter the terms, our apps would not be allowed in the store.”

(see tweets)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apple; applestore; apps; bloggers; censorship; elonmusk; google; googleplaystore; homosexualagenda; musk; timcook; truthsocial; twitter

1 posted on 11/29/2022 7:48:10 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 11/29/2022 7:48:25 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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3 posted on 11/29/2022 7:52:10 PM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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He's fine with censoring Alex Jones, but this is an attack on free speech of course.
4 posted on 11/29/2022 7:54:12 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: proust

Musk did not ban Jones.
Blame Vijaya Gadde for that one.


5 posted on 11/29/2022 7:56:57 PM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

He won’t reinstate him. Blame him for that.


6 posted on 11/29/2022 7:57:36 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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‘’Jones baselessly repeated after the 2012 mass shooting, in which 26 people were killed, including 20 children, that the incident was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors.”

Musk, who lost his first born son at 10 weeks of age, said he had “no mercy” for anyone “who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/business/alex-jones-texas-damages-award/index.html


7 posted on 11/29/2022 8:00:43 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: bitt

The obvious answer is to require these social media and telephone platforms to register/identify as utility companies, which by law aren’t allowed to discriminate.

This is what Trump should have spent his time/money on implementing, instead of building his new competitor in the existing market environment, as he is now just as likely (if not more likely) than Twitter to face app banishment.


8 posted on 11/29/2022 8:05:33 PM PST by Golden Eagle ( What's in YOUR injection? )
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To: proust
He doesn't have to reinstate everybody.
He's reinstated thousands already, 26,000 this week alone.
And he's not banning conservatives for stating truths about the fake covid “vaccine” etc etc.
Musk has done more for free speech in America than anyone for decades.
9 posted on 11/29/2022 8:05:50 PM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Beowulf9

Indeed. Free speech except for someone I (and the globalists) really personally hate.

And Justine Musk says he lied:

https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/elon-musks-ex-wife-disputes-his-claim-he-held-son-when-the-boy-died/


10 posted on 11/29/2022 8:05:53 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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“He’s fine with censoring Alex Jones, but this is an attack on free speech of course.”

If Alex Jones is the worst that he does, then he’s doing PRETTY DAMN GOOD, when one considers the following:
1. Election Fraud / Veritas
2. Vaccines/Lockdowns/Masks/Ivermectin
3. Ukraine
4. Hunter Biden


11 posted on 11/29/2022 8:30:02 PM PST by BobL
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To: bitt

Never mind twitter. Apple is actively helping to snuff out the Chinese uprising. I will be among the millions who buy a Musk Tesla phone.


12 posted on 11/29/2022 9:06:44 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: proust

Of course she’ll say he lied. He divorced her!!
She appears to be against everything he stands for.
Time to stop believing women.


13 posted on 11/29/2022 9:15:58 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: proust

If Jones is your standard for something, then you have really low standards...even he admitted he was way out of line. The huge payments they want him to make are a travesty but not having a platform readily available is not a huge problem.


14 posted on 11/30/2022 5:40:00 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: proust

It doesn’t matter to me about Musk. It matters what Jones did to those parents of the children that were murdered. Calling them crisis actors people acting as victims of a tragic event to sway public opinion when their little ones lay dead and gone forever.


15 posted on 11/30/2022 6:55:12 AM PST by Beowulf9
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