Elon Musk says he will create 'alternative' smartphone if Twitter is kicked out of the Apple App Store - Yahoo Finance

• Elon Musk is consenting to physique his ain smartphone if Twitter gets kicked retired of Apple's App Store.

• Apple demands "safety" for users arsenic a information of apps being connected its almighty platform.

• With Musk's changes to Twitter's contented moderation, it could onshore extracurricular Apple's rules.

Elon Musk has a elemental program if Apple decides to footwear Twitter from the App Store. The billionaire volition make his ain smartphone.

Musk wrote successful a Friday tweet helium would "make an alternate phone" to vie with Apple's iPhone if the tech elephantine ends up blocking Twitter from its almighty App Store.

Since taking implicit Twitter astatine the extremity of October, Musk has made galore changes to the platform, including extensive layoffs and firings of personnel, which person led to resignations executives successful complaint of information privateness and content moderation. Before helium offered to bargain Twitter for $44 billion, Musk criticized Twitter for undermining democracy by failing to uphold "free code principles" and not agelong earlier called himself a "free code absolutist."

Musk's stance connected contented moderation is fundamentally to let code that does not interruption law. In addition, helium is reportedly planning to effort and marque wealth for Twitter disconnected of big contented oregon pornography, akin to the tract Ony Fans. Under erstwhile enactment similar Jack Dorsey, contented moderation was much deliberate and focused connected "safety" for users, banning pornography, hatred code and violence. Musk has rapidly moved to reinstate a fig of users banned for specified content, similar erstwhile president Donald Trump.

Apple has lengthy guidelines for apps, which they request to travel successful bid to go and stay disposable arsenic an app connected iPhones and different Apple devices. The starring rule of the guidelines is "safety."

"When radical instal an app from the App Store, they privation to consciousness assured that it's harmless to bash truthful — that the app doesn't incorporate upsetting oregon violative content," the archetypal regularisation of the guidelines reads.

In a perchance atrocious motion for Twitter, Phil Schiller, a longtime Apple selling enforcement who leads its App Store, past week deleted his Twitter account. Schiller's determination came aft Musk complained connected Twitter astir Apple's fees, saying they're efficaciously "a hidden 30% taxation connected the internet."

Musk did not contradict connected Friday the anticipation that his changes to Twitter could get it kicked retired of the App Store, but allowed, "I surely anticipation it does not travel to that."

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