Ron DeSantis wants Congress to back Elon Musk against Apple

[In It to Win It]

Florida Politics

Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to go to bat for Twitter owner Elon Musk, suggesting that Congress should intercede on Musk’s behalf.

Tuesday saw DeSantis, who has frequently lauded the South African native’s positive effect on the social media platform, siding with Musk in his current battle with Apple.

“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,” DeSantis said, citing “reports” to that effect.

“The old regime at Twitter tried to suffocate that dissent,” DeSantis argued. “Elon Musk knows that’s not a winning formula and he’s providing free speech.”

“If Apple responds to that by nuking them from the App Store, I think that would be a huge, huge mistake, and a raw exercise of monopolistic power that would merit a response from the United States Congress,” DeSantis said, warning the tech company against being a “vassal” of the Beijing government.

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[malaise]

1. Bwaaaah

He’s going to order apple to buy ads?
Bwaaaaaaah hahahahah😀😀😀😀😀😀👂

[Ocelot II]

2. Whatever happened to Republicans' belief that private corporations' actions

relating to how and where they advertise should be determined by the free market, not regulated by the government?

[Caliman73]

10. Conservatives only have one value, "Love of Power".

I have said many times on this site that Conservatives and their political vehicle, the Republican Party, have no real values except to obtain and maintain power. All of the bullshit about, "small government", "family values", etc... is irrelevant to them. They will grow government to whatever size it needs to be to achieve and maintain power. They simply do not want ANY government power to be used to benefit the average citizen.

I am not a fan of the hold on the market that either Apple or Google have regarding phones and mobile applications. They do have a virtual monopoly on how we get our information by their endorsement or denial of applications. THAT HOWEVER, is not the relevant issue here.

DeSantis wants to interfere in the supposedly "Holy" free market in order to force a company to subsidize speech which it does not want to endorse.

Think about that. The GOVERNMENT should force a private business to do business with another business just because a particular political faction agrees with the speech which the other business is espousing. If that is not an abuse of power, then I don't know what is.

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. You're a fucking governor. Stay in your lane...... nt

[sanatanadharma]

4. Fascism is more than just corporate-government co-action ...

... it is also corporate winners and losers depending upon the government largess.

[tishaLA]

5. Remember them wringing their hands about "picking winners

and losers" when Democrats just wanted to support green energy with a fraction of what repubs use to support fossil fuels? JFC

[iscooterliberally]

6. Ron DeSantis sure knows what's important for Florida.

[Tommy Carcetti]

7. Lassiez Whatever Fits My Agenda Economics. nt

[Genki Hikari]

16. Laissez faire ce qui sert mes interets

My French may be a bit rusty, but that's the gist of what these r thugs have always meant.

DU apparently isn't keen on diacritical marks on titles. Seeing if it works here:

Laissez faire ce qui sert mes intérêts.

[FloridaBlues]

8. Who cares what this Gov wants congress to do. He was all against Twitter before musk

[Trenzalore]

9. Do the Republicans actually want a hearing where Apple tells its side of the story

and brings all the pornography and hate speech to show in a hearing.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Ron wants Elon's platform for his 2024 run.

By that point in time, it will be just another RW echo chamber.

[Native]

12. And so his real campaign begins!

[Hotler]

13. Suck it Ron. Nature of the free markets you fascist.

All he needs is the little black mustache.

[panader0]

14. "monopolistic power"? How does Apple have a monopoly on apps?

DeSatan is evil.

[Cha]

15. Fuck that Fascist ASSHOLE. nt