By Carlos Esteban *
(Opinion) The story is that tycoon Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has come like kicking a hornet’s nest.
Today, people learn not so much about what is happening in the world through conventional media, but through social networks, and the “woke” regime could sleep peacefully knowing that the big technology monopolies were censoring all information in favor of theirs.
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It was like having the control exercised by Chinese tyranny, but retaining all the democratic tools.
And here came Musk who ordered them to stop.
(Ron DeSantis)
After a strange negotiation, Musk took over the short messaging service Twitter and freed the social network that this power and its lackeys fear most: freedom of expression.
And the panic spread from the White House to Brussels, passing through the technology companies.
Twitter had to be destroyed and soon.
And here comes the world’s largest monopoly, Apple, a subscriber to “woke” culture, always at ease with democrats and Chinese tyranny.
This allows it to have an army of freelancers producing its expensive designs – which has shown its “concern” about Musk’s aim to end censorship and threatens to eliminate the little bluebird’s social network from the App Store.
And almost everyone accesses Twitter through that app.
Enter Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the thorn in the side of the “woke” regime with its recently reassessed supermajority and champion of freedom against Washington and against “smart” capitalism, as demonstrated in his victory over Disney .
DeSantis and other Republicans have already said that Apple’s alleged threat to remove Twitter from its App Store warrants a congressional investigation.
“It would be a huge, huge mistake and a really egregious display of monopoly power that I think would deserve a response from the United States Congress,” DeSantis said in Duval County, Fla.
The “old regime” at Twitter tried to “stifle dissent” regarding the COVID-19 reports, DeSantis claims, adding that Apple acts as a “vassal of the Chinese Communist Party” while leveraging its “corporate power in America… to drown the Americans. “
Well played.
The governor is referring to reports that Apple has blocked some features of its popular AirDrop service in China so users can’t circumvent the regime’s tight control over their communications amid widespread protests against “zero COVID-19” policies. .
“Apple has only banned advertising on Twitter – they hate free speech in the US?” Musk tweeted recently.
“Apple has also threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store, but won’t tell us why.” The tech billionaire also directly asked CEO Tim Cook, “What’s going on?”
What’s happening is something that’s been debated for some time, and no one dares put the kibosh on it: the extremely dangerous control that a handful of tech companies wield over public discourse.
DeSantis isn’t the only Republican to argue that Apple and Google have too much control over the Internet through their respective app download stores.
Removing Twitter from both would mean that the social networking app would be severely limited in its growth and usage.
Parler, a social networking platform favored by conservatives, was pulled from the App Store, Google Play and Amazon Web Services days after the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill incident.
The website could not be accessed for more than a month, and data shows that its usage dropped significantly during that period and never recovered.
“We must end the App Store duopoly before the end of the year. No one should have this kind of market power,” wrote Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck, The Epoch Times reports.
Also, Tennessee representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) notes that “Apple and Google currently have a stranglehold on businesses and have used their influence to bully them.”
Meanwhile, Musk has announced a “full amnesty” for Twitter users banned for violating its rules.
The accounts of former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and others have recently been reinstated.
* Carlos Esteban, 58, fifteen years at the leading economic daily EXPANSIÓN, then part of the Recoletos Group, the last three years as head of Interactive Services on the newspaper’s website. Then at Intereconomía, where I founded the Catholic weekly ALBA, I wrote the opinion piece at ÉPOCA, where I also covered the International column, for which I was responsible when La Gaceta was born (as a generalist newspaper). In recent years I have been working as a freelancer, collaborating with different media.
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