# Elon Musk is Hunting Down the Evil Empire

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By Shayne Heffernan · 2022-11-26
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Elon Musk has said he is open to creating his own *“alternative”* smartphone in the event the evil empire of tech giants move to deplatform Twitter, suggesting he could be left with no other option.

Responding to a proposal from conservative pundit Liz Wheeler that the billionaire should *“produce his own smartphone”* if free speech hating Apple and Google were to kick Twitter off of their app stores, Musk said he would not rule it out, though voiced some reluctance toward the concept.

> It’s insane! I’m just fighting for free speech in America.
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> — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
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> November 26, 2022

Musk, who completed a $44-billion purchase of Twitter last month, has repeatedly declared his intentions to protect free speech on the site, even announcing a *“general amnesty”* for suspended accounts *“provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.”*

But free speech is a much hated commodity by the ruling Democrats and other Socialist organizations.

*“I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone,”* he said on Friday.

*“Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the app store,”* Socialist Alejandra Caraballo, an instructor at Harvard Law’s cyberlaw clinic, said, adding that reinstating freedom would be *“existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities”*

*“People who engaged in direct targeted harassment can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can’t even begin to state how dangerous this will be,”* Caraballo continued.

> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high [pic.twitter.com/Si3cRYnvyD](https://t.co/Si3cRYnvyD)
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> — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
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> November 22, 2022

Musk has hit back at detractors, [saying](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596264054963699726) Twitter will never allow calls to violence or other posts which break the law. He noted that suspended users would be brought back *“slowly”* and only after a *“manual review,”* arguing the move would help to make the site *“a forum for the peaceful exchange of views.”*

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