Elon Musk goes directly after Apple

So we have a battle of the tech titans, the richest man

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after the richest company, Elon Musk and Apple is also good at tweeting. Apple has stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate freedom of speech in the United States? What's going on here? Where is Vivek going? ramawamy founder of effort Asset Management author of nation of victims with me now good morning to you um we were looking for a response from Apple we haven't seen it yet if it's available we'll try to get it and pass it on to our viewers What is Musk looking for here and where is he going?

I think he is calling out the hypocrisy of a company whose slogan was once literally to think differently. Now the company will punish you unless you literally think the same thing and I think Bill's people could say that. Well, I don't want to use my iPhone, so I'm going to switch to an Android phone. I suppose Google can make the exact same decision to deplatform an app like Twitter that it did with Parlor. This is not theoretical. and the Google Play Store did the exact same thing and I think this exposes the real antitrust problem in Silicon Valley.

It is not a product monopoly. It is a monopoly of ideas. It is not this classic product cartel that punishes the consumer. by charging them a high price, it's an ideological cartel that punishes the defector and right now that defector is Elon Musk, that's what we're seeing on display, okay, another shouted, he fired a bunch of these yesterday. Apple has also threatened, he writes. further exclude Twitter from its apps, but it won't tell us why, but if that's true, it's a big problem, dating back even to the antitrust cases in the 1990s where Microsoft tied up Netscape as its browser.

I think it's The same problem is the anti-competitive issues with the Apple Play Store and Google Play Store. This is a monopoly on ideas, but Bill, I think this actually affects our culture more deeply. What are our commitments to the free exchange of ideas? What are our real cultural commitments to freedom of expression and open debate? That is what is at stake here and the real threat to free speech today in our country manifests itself not only through the government, which is half the problem, but through this hybrid of government and corporate power. power, especially anti-competitive corporate power, to suppress free speech and open debate in this country, which is the essence of our national soul and I think that is what is at stake in this debate.

You know what I think is interesting, Vivek, if you just follow your Twitter. feed and see what Musk is up to every day since he bought the company. It's kind of surprising to me how many people want to see him fail. It was not like that before on this platform that is next to the Washington Post. From a completely different angle Elon Musk is harming free expression on Twitter, not protecting it, they write that those who believe in free expression should fight for clear and consistent policies along with transparent enforcement, instead Mr. Musk has brought chaos, do you see it as chaos? too vague, I wouldn't characterize it as a mess, but if I have a criticism, I would actually go in the other direction: many of Elon Musk's comments to date have not been entirely consistent, if some of the things he said are that He doesn't want to see either the far right or the far left, he wants to serve the 80 percent of Americans who are in the middle.

I personally believe that no one should make central determinations of the truth. Central determinations of what viewpoints do and do not do. express yourself I don't think political discrimination should have a place on Twitter at all, viewpoint based discrimination of any kind, you should give that power back to the user to decide what to do and what not to see, if anything I think. Elon Musk is doing a great job pushing the ball forward. He would encourage you to stay even truer to the true north star of operating this as a free speech platform rather than simply applying politically centrist principles.

Sorry to interrupt you, he said he would free you. the algorithm hasn't done it yet. I don't know if it's going to happen. One more thing you shouted yesterday. The Twitter archives and the suppression of free speech will soon be published on Twitter. The public deserves to know what really happened. It would be a Vivek story if the last answer happens there. I think at the end of the day it would be worth it to give the public transparency into how these decisions have been made over the past few years. Personally I think that's what the media says.

What he's actually most afraid of is exposing the way that traditional government media and social media conspired, and I think that's exactly what's happened in recent years to suppress information. I say let's disinfect that with sunlight, that will be a good thing for American, I mean, he himself said: you know, freedom of speech is not just speech you like, it's all speech by people you don't like, maybe but vaguely, thanks for your time and we'll see what happens today. It's good to see it. You, Dana, I'm Steve Ducey, I'm Brian Kilmeade and I'm Ainsley Earhart and click here to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page to see our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis.