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In It to Win It

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Tue Nov 29, 2022, 04:41 PM Nov 2022

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 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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Ron DeSantis wants Congress to back Elon Musk against Apple (Original Post) In It to Win It Nov 2022 OP
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This will be the sort of tripe they'll undertake when they're Harker Nov 2022 #2

Harker

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2. This will be the sort of tripe they'll undertake when they're
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 06:10 PM
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not hyperventilating about Hunter Biden or naming airports after Trumpsky.

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