Elon Musk Scraps Covid Misinformation Policy, Goes To War With Apple Over Free Speech
Elon Musk has abandoned Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation policy after vowing to make the site a free speech champion.
The Telegraph has the story.
“Effective November 23rd 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” a notice on its website reads.
A page on Twitter’s website titled “COVID-19 misleading information policy” now redirects users to Twitter’s user help homepage.
That page previously said: “Content that is demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm (such as increased exposure to the virus, or adverse effects on public health systems) may not be shared on Twitter.”
Other, more generalised policies on posting deliberately false or misleading information on Twitter are still listed on the company’s website and appear to be being enforced.
Meanwhile, the maker of the Fortnite series of games has come to Musk’s defense after the Twitter owner accused Apple of threatening to pull the social network from its App Store.
Mr. Musk attacked the iPhone maker with a flurry of tweets on Monday, saying the company had cut its Twitter advertising and threatened to bump the social network from Apple’s App Store.
The SpaceX chief executive asked whether Apple hated free speech, criticised its app fees and even pondered whether the tech giant might go after another of his companies, Tesla.
Mr Musk, 51, also posted a meme suggesting he planned to “go to war” rather than pay the 30% fee.
Tim Sweeney, the chief executive of Epic Games, which makes the hugely successful Fortnite series, gave his support, calling Apple “a menace to freedom worldwide”.
In 2019, Epic sued Apple for anticompetitive behaviour with its App Store, but a judge ruled largely in favour of the world’s most valuable company last year.
Both Epic and Apple are appealing the case after the judge also said Apple should allow developers to link customers to their own payment systems.
Mr. Sweeney said: “Epic attempted to open discussions for five years, from 2015 to 2020. Apple would never talk. This is chronicled in the public record of the Epic v Apple antitrust trial. Apple is a menace to freedom worldwide. They maintain an illegal monopoly on app distribution, they use it to control American discourse, and they’re endangering protesters in China by storing sensitive customer data in a state-owned data center.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ron DeSantis has waded into the row, saying: “If Apple responds to that by nuking them from the App Store, I think that would be a huge, huge mistake and it would be a really raw exercise of monopolistic power that would merit a response from the United States Congress.”
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Mario M
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Elon Musk is the product of the corrupt financial system: how is possible to be so rich by selling few Tesla cars and with a project, SpaceX, which is on many aspects a bluff? Also Bill Gates and Sam Banckman-Fried are product of such a finance.
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cathleen
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Indeed, Mario. Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter, and why was he so concerned about all the fake accounts in Twitter? Data collection. And Twitter groupies thought it was because he’s a good person and champions uncensored “free speech”. Ha! Musk has made his billions by taking handouts from the Government, and it’s probably pay back time. I wouldn’t doubt that some of the Globalists just figured out it was a mistake to cancel all the conservatives and COVID deniers from Twitter, because then they cannot track them. So, they presented their plan to Musk to buy Twitter and get everyone to come back on so they could be monitored and tracked.
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Kevin Doyle
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Please, take your medication for lunacy, stop listening to NPR, and stop being a retarded tool or as Joseph Stalin would say, “Useful Idiot”.
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Kevin Doyle
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Cathleen the Coward.
Afraid of free speech?
Is that because your Marxist lunacy is not accepted by people in the town square?
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Linda
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Hurray for Elon Musk. Let this rich man lead the way in America to save the basic rights of the people! FREE SPEECH! FREE WILL! Let the TRUTH out!
You are brave Mr. Musk. Keep up the good work!
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Kevin Doyle
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Linda, I agree 100%.
Unfortunately, due to the ’emotions’ and poor character traits of Democrats, they cannot allow free and open discussion of any topic in the town square.
China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, the entire Muslim world, and other repressive places are embraced by Leftists and Democrats in America.
They crave power and control…
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Kevin Doyle
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Satan loves Darkness.
The Light of Truth is his enemy.
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