— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) November 29, 2022
Via the Daily Wire:
DeSantis began by citing reports that Apple was not allowing protesters to use the AirDrop function to communicate, arguing that was effectively “giving aid and comfort to the CCP.”
“And so you see that report and that’s very concerning,” he continued, going on to say that it was actually more concerning to hear reports that Apple might be planning to remove Twitter from the app store in the wake of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform.
“And then when you also hear reports that Apple is threatening to remove Twitter from the app store because Elon Musk is actually opening it up for free speech and is restoring a lot of accounts that were unfairly and illegitimately suspended for putting out accurate information about COVID, that’s like one of the main things that’s being reinstated,” DeSantis added.
“So many things these experts were wrong at, and you had people on Twitter that were calling that out and Twitter — the old regime at Twitter, their response was to try to just suffocate the dissent, and Elon Musk knows that’s not a winning formula,” he said.
“And so he’s providing free speech, and so if Apple responds to that by nuking them from the app store, you know, I think that would be a huge, huge mistake,” DeSantis concluded. “And it would be a really raw exercise of monopolistic power that I think would merit a response from the United States Congress.”
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