{"id":1756221,"date":"2022-11-30T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756221"},"modified":"2022-11-30T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:48:06","slug":"desantis-hammers-apple-for-helping-communist-china-squash-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-hammers-apple-for-helping-communist-china-squash-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Hammers Apple For Helping Communist China Squash Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-hammers-apple-for-helping-communist-china-squash-protesters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Apple during an interview Tuesday evening for its role in hindering widespread protests against China\u2019s severe pandemic restrictions and for allegedly threatening to boot Twitter from its App Store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look what\u2019s going on in China now, the CCP, they have been imposing these zero COVID lockdown policies. They have been doing it on and off for three years,\u201d DeSantis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. \u201cAnd you have people in China that are really engaged in a noble effort to protest which is basically Leninist rule. So, what is Apple doing with that? They are limiting the AirDrop function of the protesters. So they are serving basically as a vassal to the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, on the other hand, here in the United States, what are they doing? They are trying to get Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter off the App Store, potentially, which would be a huge blow for free speech,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd so this is maybe the most powerful company in the entire world, certainly one of the most powerful companies in American history. They exercise more authority in some respects than even some governments do. And they\u2019re using their authority to protect the CCP while also try to limit speech here in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said that federal lawmakers needed to break up companies like Apple using anti-trust laws because \u201cthey are exercising massive amounts of power over our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: So, apparently, Apple is considering, according to Elon Musk, removing Twitter from its App Store, which would, of course, shut down Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And almost nobody in office has noticed this or decided to comment on it, except for Ron DeSantis. He\u2019s the governor of the state of Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He joins us tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Governor, thanks for coming on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, of all the news going on in the world \u2014 and there\u2019s a lot of it \u2014 you stopped on this story, and you commented on it. Why? Why did this catch your attention?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL): Well, Tucker, if you look what\u2019s going on in China now, the CCP, they have been imposing these zero COVID lockdown policies. They have been doing it on and off for three years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And you have people in China that are really engaged in a noble effort to protest which is basically Leninist rule. So, what is Apple doing with that? They are limiting the AirDrop function of the protesters. So they are serving basically as a vassal to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then, on the other hand, here in the United States, what are they doing? They are trying to get Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter off the App Store, potentially, which would be a huge blow for free speech.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so this is maybe the most powerful company in the entire world, certainly one of the most powerful companies in American history. They exercise more authority in some respects than even some governments do. And they\u2019re using their authority to protect the CCP, while also try to limit speech here in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CARLSON: While existing as an American \u2014 supposedly American company, using our copyright protections, our rule of law to their own advantage. They\u2019re benefiting from America, but working against our most basic value, which is free speech.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What can be done about that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: Well, Tucker, in the states, we did big tech censorship bill two years ago. It\u2019s gotten caught up in the courts. I think the U.S. Supreme Court is going to accept that case for this term. Texas has a similar case. There\u2019s a conflict in the circuits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, whatever the states can do to protect people\u2019s rights to engage in free expression \u2014 and, you know, what some of these companies do, they get a lot of benefits from the government, as you said, patent, things like that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CARLSON: Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: The social media companies get liability protection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And yet they turn around and they use that protection to marginalize voices they disagree with. So, I think, from the congressional perspective, though, they need to look at antitrust with these massive companies, because they are exercising massive amounts of power over our society.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Apple during an interview Tuesday evening for its role in hindering widespread protests against China\u2019s severe pandemic restrictions and for allegedly threatening to boot Twitter from its App Store. \u201cIf you look what\u2019s going on in China now, the CCP, they have been imposing these zero COVID lockdown policies. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1756224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}