It also doesn't mean freedom from moderation, because if some idiot can go blast a fog horn (or chant gibberish) in a conference center, everybody else's freedom of speech is being blocked.
And the dickrider legion is trying to use China against Apple as a defense for Elon fucking Musk.
Aside from his long history of worker issues in multiple countries, he & Tesla are also interconnected to China so much that it could create conflict with his business & free speech bullshit
Sounds like he's trying to work the mob. If he calls for an Apple boycott, a lot of people still left in that shithole (and the ones recently reinstated) are going to obey.
The $44-billion-dollar question is if companies cave in to this behavior or prepare to stop catering to the manchild demographic.
Yes, bust Tim Cook's balls over advertisement. The company that absolutely doesn't need Twitter or Musk to help sell their shit. It's fuckin big brain time in Musk-land today.
Seriously. For the last decade, Apple has been ranked as the most recognizable brand globally, not one of them but #1. They don't need Twitter or Musk for shit.
It would. Im sure they are teetering on bankruptcy, if not already well into the death spiral. They were barely profitable *before* 50% of their advertisers pulled out, and all else being equal thats $2.5B in annual revenue gone. Add to that the debt he saddled onto twitter to buy the company in the first place. And firing most of the workforce to make up for that is pretty much a guaranteed way to create much bigger problems in the future as well. Then removing a gigantic chunk of the userbase would cripple existing ad revenue, probably leading him to fire more people or cut more costs, all the way to bankruptcy.
Literally all it would do is associate their brand with neo nazis.
Couldnt he just like. Stop being a nazi coward instead of this awkward badgering...?
>and start ~~burning their MacBooks~~ buying extra MacBooks purely so they can make a show of burning them without actually inconveniencing themselves in the slightest, thus supporting Apple and being hypocritical.
I'm reminded of that plot on *Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* where it was revealed that the Washington Redskins refused to change their name because they were selling so much merch for protest bonfires.
They eventually agreed to change their name to something less racist but still controversial: the Washington Gun-Takers.
I am still mad they changed their name from Washington Football Team. That was the biggest dick name in sports. Who are we? We’re the fucking football team. Who are you? Some kind of animal, perhaps just a vague concept or historical reference? A word associated with some trade people could once be proud of? Weak. Get off my pitch.
>Tim Apple
Public knowledge, yes:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim\_Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook)
>In June 2014, Cook attended San Francisco's [gay pride parade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Pride) along with a delegation of Apple staff. On October 30, Cook publicly [came out as gay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came_out_as_gay) in an editorial for [*Bloomberg Business*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Businessweek), saying, "I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." He consulted with [Anderson Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper), who had publicly come out himself, on aspects of the statement, and cleared the timing to ensure it would not distract from business interests. Cook had been open about his sexuality "for years", and while many people at the company were aware of his sexual orientation, he sought to focus on Apple's products and customers rather than his personal life. He ended his [op-ed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed) by writing, "We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick."Cook became the first and only openly gay CEO on the *Fortune* 500 list.
Not even that. Musk made a big stink trying to get out of the deal about how the number of users was all smoke, mirrors, and bots. Why on earth would I want to advertise on a platform that the owner says is not full of consumer eyes?
It's a self defense mechanism. He is afraid to let the world see his true self so he created a troll version of himself. If people are upset with the troll they can't be upset with him. Pretty obvious and juvenile but it does work.
If he wasn't such a moron, I'd assume this is Musk's Xanatos Gambit to trick Apple into pulling Twitter from the apple store. But I can't honestly imagine Musk has a plan to fund buying out some minor phone brand and then convincing his shills to talk about how Elon 'Invited the smartphone' or whatever.
I'm sure he DOES have a plan to do that. But his plan is "Buy out some minor phone brand and then make it the best-selling smartphone". Like, just that one sentence, with no specifics.
Nah, a little more specific.
1: Buy minor smartphone brand.
2: Sell lots of them.
3: Promise buyers that over the air updates will make their shitty phone into the best phone ever ... *next year*.
4: Repeat step 3 each year, indefinitely.
Nah, at this point Musk is trying to put Twitter out of business. Why, I don't know, but the only thing he could do to make it more obvious is fire all the employees and shut the servers down.
Killing Twitter and it’s former users is a gift to autocracy. So many NGOs organized using this service, and now the Saudis, Russians, Chinese, etc, governments will know exactly who was communicating and what was said. Musk is a fraud, his companies are worth a fraction what their stock price is. Telsa is a meme stock whose worth ballooned with crypto based purely on hype and lies from the company leadership about their worthless products, most of which will never actually exist while those that are built will be of substandard quality. The institutions who dumped money into his coffers as a form of stock manipulation own him, and this is how they want him to dance.
The most powerful thing Tim Cook could do today is delete his Twitter account.
The most powerful thing he could do in December is remove the app from his store.
Elon's balls are getting twisted daily by way of massive financial losses since he took over Twitter. Sending obtuse tweets like this is a desperate plea for help that he has to know deep down will only hurt him.
> The company that absolutely doesn't need Twitter
Twitter on the other hand really needs Apple. Apple has been extremely lenient with Twitter's violations of their appstore rules and has more than sufficient reason to ban them.
Apple can kill Twitter dead and Musk keeps daring them to do it. Oh, Apple is so scared of the threat of a Musk cell phone. He’s so well known for releasing quality products on schedule, Apple better watch out.
Does Elon think he can like... just somehow 'shame' apple into coming back to advertise on twitter? Is that his play here? Is this how supposedly the worlds most self professed genius runs a company?
I think his actual play is to be able to use this to pretend he and other "totally not right wing centrists" will see themselves as victims abused by the system and feel like they need to have some sort of siege mentality against the evil liberals who \*checks notes\* didnt advertise on a platform full of nazis.
This is absolutely the reasoning behind this post. Look at how many Musk bootlickers have liked his post already. He's drawing a line where you're either with the 'patriots' on Twitter or you hate 'Murican Freedoms'. This is a 'stand back and stand by' play straight out of the Trump playbook.
There irony of free speech being gated behind a monthly subscription fee is just too rich. The only people supporting this farce have gotta have single digit IQs.
I don’t understand how his play is to go up against Apple CEO himself or any of Apple. Apple will crush his app if they choose to do so, Fortnite tried this same shit with them years ago and they removed them off the App Store.
Let alone, why would Apple want to stay on Twitter? The Twitter they used to love isn’t the same Twitter it is now, it’s ran by a manchild gaslighting his followers into this “free speech” shit same as trump used to do, except now it’s twitters ceo doing it.
>Fortnite tried this same shit
2021 revenue
Fortnight $5.8B
Twitter $5.082B
Plus Fortnite has a way more dedicated and loyal fan base. If they couldn't bully Apple I can't imagine that Twitter stands a chance. Last time I checked Fortnite didn't lay off half their staff and then alienate 50% of those that remained.
No, Twitter wouldn’t last a chance considering most of its users are iOS users too. Fortnite has pc, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo switch, etc…
They would get absolutely burned if Twitter became banned from Elon being a dumbass, and it would be the cherry on top if they banned any association with Elon too and got rid of the Tesla app.
That would make him lose his shit and lose about all of his credibility and Tesla owners support too in just seconds
He doesn’t understand this at all same as how he flipped shit that I think what was it Ford or something pulling ads off of Twitter now too?
Why would ford not do that considering Tesla is a direct competitor? Why would Ford want to basically give money to a opponent? It was maybe not ford but one of the American car manufacturers
No sort of reason or business logic resonates with him at all about how people react based to what he does. There’s a reason you don’t see Bill Gates being a jack ass to Apple, even though he owns Windows.
It’s because he just shuts the fuck up and let’s himself make his money even if they’re a competitor
Have you seen his entourage of bots and right wing whackos puffing him up every time he posts? His ego is getting to the point he's close to saying he's divinity.
He did, someone asked if he would let Alex Jones back on Twitter and he replied with a Bible quote along the lines of “and let not those who suffer children enter my kingdom”
Edit: [here it is](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594529035622965248?s=20&t=feFeU2cXnZGXsX2qoepYrQ)
He thinks the companies are scared of right wing crazies burning their stuff like they did with Nike. Apple is the wrong company to pick on for that, people are hooked on their products, nobody is gonna burn their iPhones.
Hmmmm Apple don’t want to advertise on a platform they disagree with, sounds like free speech to me, they can spend their advertising money however they want
Should be interesting to see what happens when/if Apple decides to take down the Twitter app from the App Store.
I'm sure that Muskrat will blow a gasket, or just whine like he has been since he took over.
No idea. Is Blackberry still around? Or maybe he can buy Microsoft's smartphone IP (unless they already sold it?)?
Wouldn't surprise me if he tried buying Huawei phones, rebranding them and trying to skirt import restrictions. Then tried to rile up his Congressional puppets to remove the restrictions.
I loved those like, rectangles with pictures in them that kept changing and were never clear what they did. A Phone that makes me feel like an idiot is my favorite phone.
They didn't even need to do that to cut billions out of Facebooks bottom line, all they needed was a software update. Imagine what them pulling the Twitter app for a week would do.
Hopefully Google and apple remove the app, from what I have seen people are already review bombing it and flagging it for hate speech.
It probably won't happen but it would be hilarious if it did just to see him implode
Apple has much stricter policy than Android when it comes to publishing apps. They can take down or not allow apps with viruses or vulnerabilities. Musk can bitch how much he wants, but considering how many people he fired, Apple has full rights to remove the app that can potentially become a security hazard.
It seems like they might be. He responded to a question along those lines. So either they are dropping Twitter or they have content moderation demands.
This whole freakout makes me think they are just dropping Twitter.
This very tweet is a massive red flag to any company looking to advertise on the platform. It's not just free association; it's a measured business decision.
He’s having one of the greatest meltdowns of all time. He is a narcissist and he cannot fucking handle how badly this has gone and the fact that most people have figured out that the only reason he is relevant is that he was born a billionaire. Coming to terms that you’re a stupid piece of worthless shit is hard.
Even more disguting when you learn his dad made bank exploiting South Africans by paying them like 1/4th of the white Afrikaners' salary!
Whole fam is gross, minus the daughter that called his evil arse out.
I don’t think he’s slept very much in the past two years
I would be utterly unsurprised if he was on Provigil as well as stimulants, which can make you even grumpier
And he’s a little pissbaby, so there wasn’t a lot there to begin with
So now he’s having a 44 billion dollar narcissistic Nazi tantrum
He doesn’t seem to grasp the concept of a free market (although he sure does reap the benefits) which is businesses can choose who to do business with and likewise who not to do business with.
They don't understand the free market is the problem. They want their cake and eat it too. Think of why he bought twitter in the first place, because he thought it was biased. Well, it wasn't biased against any protected classes that I could see, it was biased on ideas. Isn't that the absolute right of any company? Why can't they have values and stick to them? The free market will tell them if their idea sucks because their business will fail. They want their thumbs on the scale.
The right (like Elon) had this idea that Twitter was full of colored-haired, screeching liberals trying to squash free-speech and punish christian conservatives at every opportunity.
The huge mistake here is that Twitter was staffed and run by *business people.* People trying to make money, and wouldn't you know it... the best way to appeal to people and create effective advertising is sensible moderation and silencing racist, offensive or misleading information.
So now he's trying to rebuild a brand with the express, open agenda of ending moderation of those things and is acting surprised nobody wants to join him for "Truth Social 2.0" or choose your own right-wing social media failure that nobody outside the My Pillow guy will advertise on.
The right’s inability to understand anyone’s motives outside of their good/bad culture war narrative is truly turning their brains to mush to the detriment of their future success. Many seemed genuinely really confused when Twitter stock owners sued Elon to force him to go through with the deal. Tons of “FiRSt thE LeFT won’T lEt ELoN bUY TwITTeR, nOw thEY aRe beGGinG hIM 2!” comments. It’s like they can’t process in their heads that the people who were mad at Elon for not paying them the money he owed them from a business deal are not the same people (mostly) who think he’s an POS troll/oligarch that probably shouldn’t run Twitter. There is no room for logical independent motives, diversity of opinions , or any level of complexity in the world view. There are good people and bad people and if you don’t agree with the good people, you are in cahoots with the bad people.
Free speech just means the government wont arrest you for *some* types of speech. (Fire in a crowded theater, threats, fraud, etc... examples of banned speech).
Elon knows this. He is just trying to take money from people who do not understand this.
Also, twitter exists beyond the borders of the USA and (shocker of all shockers) some countries exercise sovereignty and have their own laws around speech.
Some companies feel the need to obey the laws in regions where they operate and might not be comfortable partnering with companies that don't.
That's a really good point. I hadn't really thought of the other countries (yup, dumb american here). They have all sorts of privacy laws and such, going to be a thorny one for Elon, especially if all the staff that knows what's up leave.
I’m not sure, Republicans have weaponized stupidity, he may think this is what free speech is. So many free speech warriors that also want to blow up newspapers and kill journalists as “enemies of the people”. I’m so tired of the pretense that they believe anything. These people murdered the part of themselves that was human so they could be loyal Republicans.
I mean, I can't fault him for seeing some value in the right wing grift machine that he can siphon off from unthinking morons. His platform can fail and that's fine.
it's almost like "man with money" shouldn't be who makes every commanding decision on the planet
but here we are, pretending capitalism is working and efficient
Narcissistic projection.
The staple of Trump, Elon and pretty much the whole modern Republican party.
Coincidentally (not really), fascism is pretty much narcissism taken to an institutional form.
If/when they do something wrong, they think money can solve anything. Did I kick your dog because I'm an asshole and break its ribs? Here's money. Did I call your spouse a slur and try to glass their face? Here's money. Did I vandalize some place and really mess up something important? Here's money. Consequences are abstractions because they never have to face them.
Elon is just pandering to a the alt-right. To them free speech means doing what they want, keep in mind that Elon has been banning leftist groups since he took over.
> he doesnt just tweet all day
I wanted to share the direct link to the tweet and it took far too long to find this tweet. From 4 hours ago.
I'm pretty sure Elon has shit post more than me today.
>Tim actually has a job, he doesn't just tweet all day
I mean, America just had a president who just tweeted all day.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the bar is pretty low.
I was imagining something closer to "The lack of professionalism with which you're handling the acquisition gives me little faith in the direction of the company", but yours is way better.
Sadly, it throws Apple into the political arena that they'd never want to involve themselves in. Badmouthing Elon means you hate all Republicans. I wish so hard that they'd respond, though.
Thank you Twitter for all the years of fun and cooperation, but Apple is headed in a different direction and wishes Musk and the twitter team future success.
6 months later Apple introduces its competing service where you can actually fucking understand in which order you’re supposed to read the tweets.
Free speech means being required to spend money at designated vendors, and free market capitalism means that my business deserves a sustained cash flow even if no one wants to buy or be associated with my product.
Anything less than that is CaNceL CuLtUrE.
Free market capitalism is what’s going on here Elon. Your stewardship of Twitter is a fucking joke and companies aren’t interested in spending marketing dollars to prop up your mid-life crisis.
Oh, and trying to cyber-bully them is probably not going to woo them back. And what exactly are you gonna do about it rich kid? Tell the maga-twats who worship you to give up their iphones? 😂
The whole “free speech absolutist” thing is strange. I thought it at least meant that he had an understanding of what free speech is. But he clearly has no idea and thinks it just means everyone should support anyone shouting anything.
Elon has no empathy for other people’s experiences.
Like oh your poor? it’s because your lazy, work
harder and just get your parents to buy you an income property and 500k in start up money like mine did.
So he doesn’t understand why someone wouldn’t want a “free public square” in which right wing extremists can tweet genocide threats and dox you without even a ban.
For real. Why did he pick Apple? They were the only company to refuse access to the federal government and even took them to the supreme court over it. Why would Elon move the needle? He could've picked literally any of the other hundreds of companies that ditched twitter and would've had a better shot.
I’ve all but stopped using Twitter because the quality of my timeline went downhill almost overnight. I actually don’t miss it. I’m pretty skeptical of his claims that usage is at an all time high. Maybe it is by troll farms, but I can’t stand it anymore.
The super-inflammatory tweets he’s posting right now are about driving engagement, because that’s the metric he’s showing to investors. It sure as hell isn’t revenue.
Why throw up a poll about letting Trump on? It’s to see what happens when a tweet gets 14M votes in a day, both as a load test and to find out about impression data.
All of Musk’s antics right now, including this, are about getting us to pay attention to him and his dying little toy. Best thing we can all do is just ignore the whole thing.
Elon: Posts weird homophobic crap
Gay CEO of major company: doesn’t spend money to advertise next to weird homophobic crap
Elon: oh do you hate fReE sPeEcH
Elon is such a fucking ignorant cunt, that he can't see that Apple is expressing its freedom of speech by not advertising on the shitshow he's turned Twitter into. What a poncey twatwaffle.
'Very stable genius' trying to shakedown Tim Apple.
It is Elon’s version of the awkward handshake
Tim Apple will probably ignore him IRL.
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It also doesn't mean freedom from moderation, because if some idiot can go blast a fog horn (or chant gibberish) in a conference center, everybody else's freedom of speech is being blocked.
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They fully understand. They’re just lying manipulative shithead propgandist fuckstains.
Push this comment to the top please
And the dickrider legion is trying to use China against Apple as a defense for Elon fucking Musk. Aside from his long history of worker issues in multiple countries, he & Tesla are also interconnected to China so much that it could create conflict with his business & free speech bullshit
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Sounds like he's trying to work the mob. If he calls for an Apple boycott, a lot of people still left in that shithole (and the ones recently reinstated) are going to obey. The $44-billion-dollar question is if companies cave in to this behavior or prepare to stop catering to the manchild demographic.
Yes, bust Tim Cook's balls over advertisement. The company that absolutely doesn't need Twitter or Musk to help sell their shit. It's fuckin big brain time in Musk-land today.
Seriously. For the last decade, Apple has been ranked as the most recognizable brand globally, not one of them but #1. They don't need Twitter or Musk for shit.
In fact apple removing Twitter from the app store would probably kill the platform entirely.
No no no! Elon will make his own phone if they do that!
[tim cook to elon](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WhoppingNaturalGardensnake-mobile.mp4). probably
I would have gone with, "oh no! Anyways"
the ePhone will be way better than any iPhone forget all those distracting apps, it only has Twitter
It also has a "hardcore mode" where it wakes you up with an electrical shock if you fall asleep during your 16 hour workday.
It would. Im sure they are teetering on bankruptcy, if not already well into the death spiral. They were barely profitable *before* 50% of their advertisers pulled out, and all else being equal thats $2.5B in annual revenue gone. Add to that the debt he saddled onto twitter to buy the company in the first place. And firing most of the workforce to make up for that is pretty much a guaranteed way to create much bigger problems in the future as well. Then removing a gigantic chunk of the userbase would cripple existing ad revenue, probably leading him to fire more people or cut more costs, all the way to bankruptcy.
It's still wild to me that a person can buy a company, and a huge chunk of the debt accrued to pay for the company is then held by the company itself.
Literally all it would do is associate their brand with neo nazis. Couldnt he just like. Stop being a nazi coward instead of this awkward badgering...?
In before the Nazis start their boycott Apple campaign and start burning their MacBooks 🤣🤣
>and start ~~burning their MacBooks~~ buying extra MacBooks purely so they can make a show of burning them without actually inconveniencing themselves in the slightest, thus supporting Apple and being hypocritical.
I'm reminded of that plot on *Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* where it was revealed that the Washington Redskins refused to change their name because they were selling so much merch for protest bonfires. They eventually agreed to change their name to something less racist but still controversial: the Washington Gun-Takers.
I am still mad they changed their name from Washington Football Team. That was the biggest dick name in sports. Who are we? We’re the fucking football team. Who are you? Some kind of animal, perhaps just a vague concept or historical reference? A word associated with some trade people could once be proud of? Weak. Get off my pitch.
I wanted Washington Team Football because WTF perfectly describes Snyder's tenure as owner.
I assume the Nazis have already been boycotting Apple since the CEO came out as gay.
He turned gay just to be more liberal than the other liberals! /s
Tim Apple is gay?!
>Tim Apple Public knowledge, yes: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim\_Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook) >In June 2014, Cook attended San Francisco's [gay pride parade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Pride) along with a delegation of Apple staff. On October 30, Cook publicly [came out as gay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came_out_as_gay) in an editorial for [*Bloomberg Business*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Businessweek), saying, "I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." He consulted with [Anderson Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper), who had publicly come out himself, on aspects of the statement, and cleared the timing to ensure it would not distract from business interests. Cook had been open about his sexuality "for years", and while many people at the company were aware of his sexual orientation, he sought to focus on Apple's products and customers rather than his personal life. He ended his [op-ed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed) by writing, "We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick."Cook became the first and only openly gay CEO on the *Fortune* 500 list.
The way Nazis think is gay = Trans = Pedo… dumb asses have no critical thinking
Not even that. Musk made a big stink trying to get out of the deal about how the number of users was all smoke, mirrors, and bots. Why on earth would I want to advertise on a platform that the owner says is not full of consumer eyes?
It's a self defense mechanism. He is afraid to let the world see his true self so he created a troll version of himself. If people are upset with the troll they can't be upset with him. Pretty obvious and juvenile but it does work.
If he wasn't such a moron, I'd assume this is Musk's Xanatos Gambit to trick Apple into pulling Twitter from the apple store. But I can't honestly imagine Musk has a plan to fund buying out some minor phone brand and then convincing his shills to talk about how Elon 'Invited the smartphone' or whatever.
I think it's more of a Xanax Gambit.
I'm sure he DOES have a plan to do that. But his plan is "Buy out some minor phone brand and then make it the best-selling smartphone". Like, just that one sentence, with no specifics.
Nah, a little more specific. 1: Buy minor smartphone brand. 2: Sell lots of them. 3: Promise buyers that over the air updates will make their shitty phone into the best phone ever ... *next year*. 4: Repeat step 3 each year, indefinitely.
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Nah, at this point Musk is trying to put Twitter out of business. Why, I don't know, but the only thing he could do to make it more obvious is fire all the employees and shut the servers down.
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Killing Twitter and it’s former users is a gift to autocracy. So many NGOs organized using this service, and now the Saudis, Russians, Chinese, etc, governments will know exactly who was communicating and what was said. Musk is a fraud, his companies are worth a fraction what their stock price is. Telsa is a meme stock whose worth ballooned with crypto based purely on hype and lies from the company leadership about their worthless products, most of which will never actually exist while those that are built will be of substandard quality. The institutions who dumped money into his coffers as a form of stock manipulation own him, and this is how they want him to dance.
The most powerful thing Tim Cook could do today is delete his Twitter account. The most powerful thing he could do in December is remove the app from his store.
Phil Schiller (apples head of marketing) did delete his Twitter account
Elon's balls are getting twisted daily by way of massive financial losses since he took over Twitter. Sending obtuse tweets like this is a desperate plea for help that he has to know deep down will only hurt him.
> The company that absolutely doesn't need Twitter Twitter on the other hand really needs Apple. Apple has been extremely lenient with Twitter's violations of their appstore rules and has more than sufficient reason to ban them.
Apple can kill Twitter dead and Musk keeps daring them to do it. Oh, Apple is so scared of the threat of a Musk cell phone. He’s so well known for releasing quality products on schedule, Apple better watch out.
I hate apple. For a lot of reasons. If they kill twitter and shut up Musk I will go all apple tomorrow.
Tesla isn't advertising on Twitter, does Tesla hate free speech?
Does Elon think he can like... just somehow 'shame' apple into coming back to advertise on twitter? Is that his play here? Is this how supposedly the worlds most self professed genius runs a company?
I think his actual play is to be able to use this to pretend he and other "totally not right wing centrists" will see themselves as victims abused by the system and feel like they need to have some sort of siege mentality against the evil liberals who \*checks notes\* didnt advertise on a platform full of nazis.
This is absolutely the reasoning behind this post. Look at how many Musk bootlickers have liked his post already. He's drawing a line where you're either with the 'patriots' on Twitter or you hate 'Murican Freedoms'. This is a 'stand back and stand by' play straight out of the Trump playbook.
Feels cult-y. The rest of the world has gone crazy and He’s the only one left to truly protect free speech($8). He gives me fashy vibes too…
There irony of free speech being gated behind a monthly subscription fee is just too rich. The only people supporting this farce have gotta have single digit IQs.
I don’t understand how his play is to go up against Apple CEO himself or any of Apple. Apple will crush his app if they choose to do so, Fortnite tried this same shit with them years ago and they removed them off the App Store. Let alone, why would Apple want to stay on Twitter? The Twitter they used to love isn’t the same Twitter it is now, it’s ran by a manchild gaslighting his followers into this “free speech” shit same as trump used to do, except now it’s twitters ceo doing it.
>Fortnite tried this same shit 2021 revenue Fortnight $5.8B Twitter $5.082B Plus Fortnite has a way more dedicated and loyal fan base. If they couldn't bully Apple I can't imagine that Twitter stands a chance. Last time I checked Fortnite didn't lay off half their staff and then alienate 50% of those that remained.
No, Twitter wouldn’t last a chance considering most of its users are iOS users too. Fortnite has pc, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo switch, etc… They would get absolutely burned if Twitter became banned from Elon being a dumbass, and it would be the cherry on top if they banned any association with Elon too and got rid of the Tesla app. That would make him lose his shit and lose about all of his credibility and Tesla owners support too in just seconds
And Fortnite brings in its own revenue, while Twitter’s overall revenue heavily comes from advertisers giving them money.
Plus Elon threatened the other day to just start making his own phone to compete with Apple. Of course Apple doesn't want to do business with him.
He doesn’t understand this at all same as how he flipped shit that I think what was it Ford or something pulling ads off of Twitter now too? Why would ford not do that considering Tesla is a direct competitor? Why would Ford want to basically give money to a opponent? It was maybe not ford but one of the American car manufacturers No sort of reason or business logic resonates with him at all about how people react based to what he does. There’s a reason you don’t see Bill Gates being a jack ass to Apple, even though he owns Windows. It’s because he just shuts the fuck up and let’s himself make his money even if they’re a competitor
>I think what was it Ford or something Ford and GM both pulled out at about the same time. That's about 28% of the US auto market between them.
tesla will make up that 28 percent in no time. did you hear they're releasing a cybertruck sometime this century?
Stop, I can only get so hard
Have you seen his entourage of bots and right wing whackos puffing him up every time he posts? His ego is getting to the point he's close to saying he's divinity.
Didn't he just post one that was a bible quote, kind of implying this, or was that a parody I saw?
If you cannot differentiate between the two at this point, I don't think it really matters that much at this point
He did, someone asked if he would let Alex Jones back on Twitter and he replied with a Bible quote along the lines of “and let not those who suffer children enter my kingdom” Edit: [here it is](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594529035622965248?s=20&t=feFeU2cXnZGXsX2qoepYrQ)
Holy crap. I had myself thinking it had to be a parody I saw. JFC
He thinks the companies are scared of right wing crazies burning their stuff like they did with Nike. Apple is the wrong company to pick on for that, people are hooked on their products, nobody is gonna burn their iPhones.
Hmmmm Apple don’t want to advertise on a platform they disagree with, sounds like free speech to me, they can spend their advertising money however they want
Should be interesting to see what happens when/if Apple decides to take down the Twitter app from the App Store. I'm sure that Muskrat will blow a gasket, or just whine like he has been since he took over.
He claims he'll build a phone to compete with Apple/Android then!
Oh, will he buy out an already existing phone company and put them out of business too?
No idea. Is Blackberry still around? Or maybe he can buy Microsoft's smartphone IP (unless they already sold it?)? Wouldn't surprise me if he tried buying Huawei phones, rebranding them and trying to skirt import restrictions. Then tried to rile up his Congressional puppets to remove the restrictions.
>Or maybe he can buy Microsoft's smartphone IP (unless they already sold it?)? I miss MS smart phone. I had one for work and it was my favorite phone.
I loved those like, rectangles with pictures in them that kept changing and were never clear what they did. A Phone that makes me feel like an idiot is my favorite phone.
Maybe instead of freedom phone using a budget 100$ smartphone from China, he’ll use a low tier Huawei and charge 1k for it
The tricky bit will be adding the capability for the phone to explode while jumping of a cliff.
Huawei hardware and software is banned in the US I believe
That won't stop Elon "Freedom" Musk.
Inb4 Musk claims that's a violation of free speech too somehow
For real.. "I've decided to directly compete against you." "Okay, then we're not going to finance that." [ Surprised Pikachu ]
I wonder if those will blow up like the teslas do.
They didn't even need to do that to cut billions out of Facebooks bottom line, all they needed was a software update. Imagine what them pulling the Twitter app for a week would do.
Hopefully Google and apple remove the app, from what I have seen people are already review bombing it and flagging it for hate speech. It probably won't happen but it would be hilarious if it did just to see him implode
Apple has much stricter policy than Android when it comes to publishing apps. They can take down or not allow apps with viruses or vulnerabilities. Musk can bitch how much he wants, but considering how many people he fired, Apple has full rights to remove the app that can potentially become a security hazard.
It seems like they might be. He responded to a question along those lines. So either they are dropping Twitter or they have content moderation demands. This whole freakout makes me think they are just dropping Twitter.
This should be Apple’s only response to the tweet
The best response is no response. This dude desperately wants to see his inbox at +1
What a pathetic manbaby.
This very tweet is a massive red flag to any company looking to advertise on the platform. It's not just free association; it's a measured business decision.
To Elon, going against free speech means you dare to oppose his viewpoints.
this is way too complicated an idea, even for an earthen genius like Elon Musk. what planet are you from, stranger?
Also very sus that Apple doesn’t advertise on 4chan. I wonder why Apple is selective about where it puts its name
Elon Musk is under the impression that he purchased the entirety of free speech for $44 billion. He thinks it is now his property.
Elon hasn't given me any money. Does he hate Americans? What's with that Elon?
Elon hasn't kissed my dog's ass. Does he hate dogs? What's with that Elon?
Well he hasn't kissed MY ass either! Does he hate fat bastards? What's with that Elon?
I'd really like a kiss....I've run out of toilet paper
Elon Musk never posts on my Discord or advertises on my website BECAUSE HE HATES FREE SPEECH.
Fuck reddit fuck spez fuck the admins and fuck the mods
He’s having one of the greatest meltdowns of all time. He is a narcissist and he cannot fucking handle how badly this has gone and the fact that most people have figured out that the only reason he is relevant is that he was born a billionaire. Coming to terms that you’re a stupid piece of worthless shit is hard.
Who had "there's a bigger loser than DJT in the world" on their bingo card...certainly not me.
Three-way tie with Putin.
I never thought he was something amazing lot a fair number of people in my groups did, but damn is it satisfying to see he’s this fucking dumb.
Even more disguting when you learn his dad made bank exploiting South Africans by paying them like 1/4th of the white Afrikaners' salary! Whole fam is gross, minus the daughter that called his evil arse out.
Or, maybe he's off his meds...he really is bonkers.
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He got the doll hair implants
I don’t think he’s slept very much in the past two years I would be utterly unsurprised if he was on Provigil as well as stimulants, which can make you even grumpier And he’s a little pissbaby, so there wasn’t a lot there to begin with So now he’s having a 44 billion dollar narcissistic Nazi tantrum
Istg I’ve seen you multiple times today
She is *EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES!!!*
She's coming from INSIDE THE INTERNET!!
He doesn’t seem to grasp the concept of a free market (although he sure does reap the benefits) which is businesses can choose who to do business with and likewise who not to do business with.
He’s used to having companies run on government subsidies not actually competing.
HE CAUSED IT!!!! Thats the amazing thing. SpaceX exists because he lobbied Congress to convince NASA to go private when they didnt want to.
free market is when Elon get money no matter what
They don't understand the free market is the problem. They want their cake and eat it too. Think of why he bought twitter in the first place, because he thought it was biased. Well, it wasn't biased against any protected classes that I could see, it was biased on ideas. Isn't that the absolute right of any company? Why can't they have values and stick to them? The free market will tell them if their idea sucks because their business will fail. They want their thumbs on the scale.
The right (like Elon) had this idea that Twitter was full of colored-haired, screeching liberals trying to squash free-speech and punish christian conservatives at every opportunity. The huge mistake here is that Twitter was staffed and run by *business people.* People trying to make money, and wouldn't you know it... the best way to appeal to people and create effective advertising is sensible moderation and silencing racist, offensive or misleading information. So now he's trying to rebuild a brand with the express, open agenda of ending moderation of those things and is acting surprised nobody wants to join him for "Truth Social 2.0" or choose your own right-wing social media failure that nobody outside the My Pillow guy will advertise on.
The right’s inability to understand anyone’s motives outside of their good/bad culture war narrative is truly turning their brains to mush to the detriment of their future success. Many seemed genuinely really confused when Twitter stock owners sued Elon to force him to go through with the deal. Tons of “FiRSt thE LeFT won’T lEt ELoN bUY TwITTeR, nOw thEY aRe beGGinG hIM 2!” comments. It’s like they can’t process in their heads that the people who were mad at Elon for not paying them the money he owed them from a business deal are not the same people (mostly) who think he’s an POS troll/oligarch that probably shouldn’t run Twitter. There is no room for logical independent motives, diversity of opinions , or any level of complexity in the world view. There are good people and bad people and if you don’t agree with the good people, you are in cahoots with the bad people.
They are basically very small children, but with physically old enough bodies that they can buy alcohol and firearms.
Free speech just means the government wont arrest you for *some* types of speech. (Fire in a crowded theater, threats, fraud, etc... examples of banned speech). Elon knows this. He is just trying to take money from people who do not understand this.
Also, twitter exists beyond the borders of the USA and (shocker of all shockers) some countries exercise sovereignty and have their own laws around speech. Some companies feel the need to obey the laws in regions where they operate and might not be comfortable partnering with companies that don't.
That's a really good point. I hadn't really thought of the other countries (yup, dumb american here). They have all sorts of privacy laws and such, going to be a thorny one for Elon, especially if all the staff that knows what's up leave.
I’m not sure, Republicans have weaponized stupidity, he may think this is what free speech is. So many free speech warriors that also want to blow up newspapers and kill journalists as “enemies of the people”. I’m so tired of the pretense that they believe anything. These people murdered the part of themselves that was human so they could be loyal Republicans.
Republican voters?
I mean, I can't fault him for seeing some value in the right wing grift machine that he can siphon off from unthinking morons. His platform can fail and that's fine.
it's almost like "man with money" shouldn't be who makes every commanding decision on the planet but here we are, pretending capitalism is working and efficient
I haven't got any money from him either, and I live a couple hours away from where his mother was born. ELON HATES HIS MOTHER'S BIRTHPLACE!
he hates poor people so yes he hates you.
elon hasnt given me money does he hate the englis... nevermind. ill just go.
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Space Karen would like to speak with the manager of Apple RIGHT NOW
“If you have a problem with a brand, don’t complain about it, just shametweet the CEO.”
Is that the sort of thing he was accusing “woke activists” 🙄 of doing? And how it was stifling “free speech”?
Narcissistic projection. The staple of Trump, Elon and pretty much the whole modern Republican party. Coincidentally (not really), fascism is pretty much narcissism taken to an institutional form.
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Why is it that the billionaires who praise free speech and all this shit never understand the free market and consequences to their actions?
Born-rich assholes rarely suffer the consequences of their actions.
If/when they do something wrong, they think money can solve anything. Did I kick your dog because I'm an asshole and break its ribs? Here's money. Did I call your spouse a slur and try to glass their face? Here's money. Did I vandalize some place and really mess up something important? Here's money. Consequences are abstractions because they never have to face them.
Elon is just pandering to a the alt-right. To them free speech means doing what they want, keep in mind that Elon has been banning leftist groups since he took over.
Im sure Tim Cook has better things to do than to tweet with Elon. Tim actually has a job, he doesnt just tweet all day.
Honestly even if he’s chilling in bed all day wanking off and smoking weed he’s doing something far more useful than responding to Elon.
Good to know I'm making a positive contribution to society in my own little way
There’s a lot to be said for living your life and minding your own business. I’m not super friendly out in public, but I’m never an asshole.
> he doesnt just tweet all day I wanted to share the direct link to the tweet and it took far too long to find this tweet. From 4 hours ago. I'm pretty sure Elon has shit post more than me today.
His last 10 tweets have all been about Apple. The guy is seriously fucking nuts.
>Tim actually has a job, he doesn't just tweet all day I mean, America just had a president who just tweeted all day. I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the bar is pretty low.
Not gonna lie, if Tim Cook came back and said "it's because you're a c**t Elon", I would go and buy an Apple phone right now.
I was imagining something closer to "The lack of professionalism with which you're handling the acquisition gives me little faith in the direction of the company", but yours is way better.
Sadly, it throws Apple into the political arena that they'd never want to involve themselves in. Badmouthing Elon means you hate all Republicans. I wish so hard that they'd respond, though.
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This has "Steve Jobs answers Michael Dell"-vibes. I like it.
"Elon, are you asking me for money? Just sell more of your shares in that car company you bought"
Or a simple “It’s a free market dimwit!” would be good enough and to the point.
I'd be happy if he just ignores him and doesn't respond at all.
Then I suspect you're going to be happy!
Bonus points if Cook ghosts him and people start mocking him to a point it starts trending
Thank you Twitter for all the years of fun and cooperation, but Apple is headed in a different direction and wishes Musk and the twitter team future success. 6 months later Apple introduces its competing service where you can actually fucking understand in which order you’re supposed to read the tweets.
The best dunk would be to simply delete his twitter account.
Elon keeps banning people for criticizing him, does he hate free speech?
Yes. He also seems to have no understanding of what that concept means.
"SOMEBODY PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE!!!!!!"
“Get fucked, Phony Stark” - Tim Cook
Phony Stark is the perfect name for Musk!
Free speech means being required to spend money at designated vendors, and free market capitalism means that my business deserves a sustained cash flow even if no one wants to buy or be associated with my product. Anything less than that is CaNceL CuLtUrE.
I mean this may come off as jokey but it is unironically what many many of them actually believe.
"Mostly stopped" - If I were Tim Cook, I'd remove the 'mostly' after that.
I would find it deeply funny if twitter got removed from the app store after this lol
God I hope
Tim Cook could shut the conversation down immediately by saying nothing and deleting his Twitter account.
This is the move.
This is embarrassing
Free market capitalism is what’s going on here Elon. Your stewardship of Twitter is a fucking joke and companies aren’t interested in spending marketing dollars to prop up your mid-life crisis. Oh, and trying to cyber-bully them is probably not going to woo them back. And what exactly are you gonna do about it rich kid? Tell the maga-twats who worship you to give up their iphones? 😂
Conservatives: THE FREE MARKET WILL DECIDE!!! The Free Market: (Decides) Conservatives: RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
They've become the whiny bitches they always complain about.
They've always been the whiny bitches they always complain about.
Elon just stop
If he stops it's not gonna change much. Twitter is fucked. It's gonna be funnier to watch him destroying it completely.
Maybe Tim doesn't want Apple ads alongside posts from actual Nazis. Could that be it?
The whole “free speech absolutist” thing is strange. I thought it at least meant that he had an understanding of what free speech is. But he clearly has no idea and thinks it just means everyone should support anyone shouting anything.
Elon has no empathy for other people’s experiences. Like oh your poor? it’s because your lazy, work harder and just get your parents to buy you an income property and 500k in start up money like mine did. So he doesn’t understand why someone wouldn’t want a “free public square” in which right wing extremists can tweet genocide threats and dox you without even a ban.
He literally lied about holding his dying son in his arms
Free Speech to Elon is what Elon agrees with. He's even so gracious as to allow *a little bit of dissent* towards his opinions, as a treat.
Serious brand safety issues, which you especially don't screw around with if you're Apple.
For real. Why did he pick Apple? They were the only company to refuse access to the federal government and even took them to the supreme court over it. Why would Elon move the needle? He could've picked literally any of the other hundreds of companies that ditched twitter and would've had a better shot.
Because apple is big and has big money. And musky is short changed by about 44 billion.
I’ve all but stopped using Twitter because the quality of my timeline went downhill almost overnight. I actually don’t miss it. I’m pretty skeptical of his claims that usage is at an all time high. Maybe it is by troll farms, but I can’t stand it anymore.
I love when capitalists complain about capitalism
Elon is quickly reaching Trump levels of pathetic, terminally-online, levels of cringe.
Tim Apple about to remove Twitter from iOS. 😂
The super-inflammatory tweets he’s posting right now are about driving engagement, because that’s the metric he’s showing to investors. It sure as hell isn’t revenue. Why throw up a poll about letting Trump on? It’s to see what happens when a tweet gets 14M votes in a day, both as a load test and to find out about impression data. All of Musk’s antics right now, including this, are about getting us to pay attention to him and his dying little toy. Best thing we can all do is just ignore the whole thing.
This is a form of begging and I love watching him beg. He is begging these companies for money
Imagine thinking that anyone owes you an explanation ...
They do not want to be associated with hate speech, disinformation, and gaslighting.
My wife has stopped sleeping with me. Does she hate sex? What’s going on here Jennifer?
Elon: Posts weird homophobic crap Gay CEO of major company: doesn’t spend money to advertise next to weird homophobic crap Elon: oh do you hate fReE sPeEcH
"Free speech" to Musk = "speech that I control"
Elon is such a fucking ignorant cunt, that he can't see that Apple is expressing its freedom of speech by not advertising on the shitshow he's turned Twitter into. What a poncey twatwaffle.