Ron DeSantis wants Congress to back Elon Musk against Apple
Florida Politics
Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to go to bat for Twitter owner Elon Musk, suggesting that Congress should intercede on Musks behalf.
Tuesday saw DeSantis, who has frequently lauded the South African natives 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 thats not a winning formula and hes 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.