Elon Musk says he would make his own smart phone if app stores ban Twitter - The Hill

Elon Musk said helium would marque his ain smartphone if Google and Apple were to prohibition Twitter from their app stores. 

Musk said successful a tweet responding to blimpish podcaster Liz Wheeler that helium hopes the concern does not travel to that, but helium volition marque that determination if necessary. 

“I surely anticipation it does not travel to that, but, yes, if determination is nary different choice, I volition marque an alternate phone,” helium said. 

Wheeler archetypal proposed the idea, saying that fractional of the state would “happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone and Android.” 

“The antheral builds rockets to Mars, a silly small smartphone should beryllium easy, right?” she tweeted. 

Musk, who has called himself a escaped code “absolutist,” has expressed wide absorption to indefinite bans of Twitter accounts and precocious lifted bans connected the handles of erstwhile President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). 

Many advertisers person fled from Twitter since Musk’s woody to get the level went done past month. As a result, Musk chopped astir fractional of the staff, arguing that the institution is hemorrhaging money.

Concerns person besides bubbled up astir a deficiency of contented moderation and the reinstatement of banned users connected the level since the Tesla CEO’s takeover.

A flood of racist and antisemitic posts spread connected the level aft Musk’s acquisition.

The billionaire besides launched a paid verification subscription, wherever users would person to wage per period for the bluish cheque people beside their Twitter handle. However, problems arose erstwhile a bid of users impersonated salient figures connected the platform. The programme was halted arsenic a result.

Musk posted a canvass connected Twitter connected Wednesday to inquire users if they judge the level should connection amnesty to suspended accounts arsenic agelong arsenic they did not interruption immoderate instrumentality oregon prosecute successful “egregious spam.”

He restored Trump’s relationship past week aft a constrictive bulk of users indicated successful different canvass that they enactment the erstwhile president’s suspension ending.