Can’t Stop Won’t Stop 🍏

In the early 21st century tech and information economy there's market power and then there's Apple. There's not a lot of comparison. Apparently Elon Musk only just found that out. https://t.co/pxxjxEF702

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 28, 2022

Lol. pic.twitter.com/Ex8B6ZP8wg

— Raj (@whenhowwherewhy) November 28, 2022

What will Apple do if it's cut off by Twitter?

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 28, 2022

Notice? Or probably not.

Apple gave Fortnite the boot for not agreeing with the App Store revenue share and the game was making $1 billion+ on iOS

something tells me Apple won’t be rattled by Musk and his army of 150k users paying $8 pic.twitter.com/vaMorPHaoU

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) November 28, 2022

Or maybe they will:

pic.twitter.com/psLnP5bbra

— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) November 28, 2022

It also could be Apple has reasons for concern:

Y'all, Apple is almost certainly threatening to pull Twitter because they've stopped following Apple's objectionable content policy.

(Follow @AuschwitzMuseum which is tracking how suddenly reports of antisemitic content are being found "within policy" at Twitter.) pic.twitter.com/YgfCoHLzxS

— Yell in a War 🐀 (@jelenawoehr) November 28, 2022

Well, not that only:

5/ Apple’s risk in hosting an app that’s invariably going to be involved in a multibillion dollar lawsuit with European regulators is not zero.

They are trying to head off that risk by reaching out privately. He doesn’t want to hear it, and is instead throwing a tantrum.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) November 28, 2022

Dinesh has a plan:

"Twitter for iPhone" pic.twitter.com/i30KqzRoJA

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 29, 2022

There are 1.2 billion iPhone users worldwide. There are 217 million Twitter users worldwide. You go first, Dinesh. Lead by example.

Meanwhile, Elmo is still worried about his free speech!

Come on @elonmusk We all know what free speech re the gov is because we can read the 1st Amendment and any related case law. We have no idea what Free Speech on Twitter is because you are judge and jury. There is no transparency. When do we see the @twitter Bill of Rights ?

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 29, 2022

It’s apparently pro free speech when Elon Musk charges you $8 for access to his platform, but anti free speech if Apple charges him $2 for access to theirs. #Logic

— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 28, 2022

pic.twitter.com/WqgpuFc8cg

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 29, 2022

And proud of his clever arguments:

Erm, the figure for Tesla employees is 93.9%, according to that same graph… pic.twitter.com/ruHTDKun4c

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 28, 2022

Proof that everybody is good for something:

Elon Musk is making a great case for why we should tax the HELL out of billionaires.

— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) November 28, 2022

I've been saying for years that the whole "but the SPIRIT of free speech" thing is fragile, close to philosophically incoherent, and prone to self-contradiction, and I could have hardly asked for a better champion of my argument than Elon Musk.

— Popehat (@Popehat) November 29, 2022

And since I link Elmo and Trump News constantly:

The person who let him in was the former president https://t.co/65SvW3UQuB

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 29, 2022

I love it when Maggie brings the snark:

This is always the theme, from executive orders in 2017 to Jan. 6: that staff is somehow failing Trump or to blame. Some staff tried stopping him from meeting with West. He wanted to do it.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 29, 2022

I don’t think Trump is being covered now quite like he was in 2016. 

And we close with the ultimate conspiracy (because the one person will never be able to prove it):

Report: World's Lone Non-Telepathic Individual Still Completely Unaware https://t.co/psTvpcZNEg pic.twitter.com/ObKDAgtttf

— The Onion (@TheOnion) November 29, 2022