Billionaire Elon Musk is the latest entrant in the list of critics attacking the 30% fee charged by Apple on purchases made through its App Store.

Elon Musk posted a series of tweets, one of which featured a meme showing a car with his first name on it turning into the “Go to War,” highway exit rather than the one leading to the “Pay 30%.” exit.

Apple “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why,” Elon Musk said in another tweet.

Both Apple and Google demanded that the social networking apps on their app stores have efficient processes for policing offensive content.

However, since Elon Musk assumed control of Twitter, the company has been witnessing a massive staff layoff/resignation phenomenon, affecting its key departments such as the one battling online misinformation.

Additionally, he has allowed accounts that had been previously blocked, including Donald Trump, to come back again online. Nearly 62,000 suspended accounts with more than 10,000 followers, including one account that has over 5 million followers and 75 accounts with over one million followers will be reactivated again, as per reports.

Twitter has also stopped its COVID misinformation policy enforcement, raising concerns among health and media experts.

Failure to follow Apple’s and Google’s criteria would be devastating, according to Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, who thinks that the move may result in the micro-blogging platform’s “expulsion from their app stores.”

Elon Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” justified his actions as part of a “revolution against online censorship in America.”

However, now a Platformer report claims that Twitter’s revamped Blue subscription feature might not be available as an in-app purchase on iOS, in an attempt to dodge Apple’s 30% cut of App Store purchases.

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An email shared by 9to5Mac reads a response from Phil Schiller “The Telegram apps were taken down off the App Store because the App Store team was alerted to illegal content, specifically child pornography, in the apps. After verifying the existence of the illegal content the team took the apps down from the store, alerted the developer, and notified the proper authorities, including the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).”

In essence, the company has taken a dignified stand and is intolerant toward foul content circulated using the App Store. “I hope you appreciate the importance of our actions to not distribute apps on the App Store while they contain illegal content and to take swift action against anyone and any app involved in content that puts children at risk.”

This is an important message to all tech companies to extend their efforts to prevent vile content from being distributed through their services.

Telegram is a secure feature that works on end-to-end encryption to protect messages shared between users. So, the content is not shared between users, but sourced from a third-party plugin used by the app.

However, the Telegram app was back on track with fixes on App Store within hours after its removal. “The App Store team worked with the developer to have them remove this illegal content from the apps and ban the users who posted this horrible content. Only after it was verified that the developer had taken these actions and put in place more controls to keep this illegal activity from happening again were these apps reinstated on the App Store,” the email said.

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