Tim Sweeney
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Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
Epic Games founder and CEO
Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Ofcom has fined 4chan again, £520,000 under the UK's Online Safety Act.
4chan responded to them in an email with a giant hamster.
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The UK's censorship agency, Ofcom, issued 4chan with a giant fine today.
We responded to Ofcom with a giant hamster today.
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What’s worse is that Apple blocks competing stores, so what would just be a ludicrously bad store stocking decision in a competitive market is instead an outright blockade against an entire app category of for a billion users.
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Apple needs to bring back Steve Wozniak to fix these idiotic missteps. It’s not only a terrible move against developers, it’s a move against kids learning to make apps and therefore a move against the future of Apple’s own platform.
Wes Roth@WesRoth
Apple has quietly halted App Store updates for popular AI "vibe-coding" applications most notably the $9 billion startup Replit and mobile app builder Vibecode. After months of pushback, Apple is reportedly demanding major UX changes. Replit is being asked to force its generated app previews to open in an external web browser rather than natively inside its app. Vibecode was told it must completely remove the ability to generate software specifically for Apple devices.
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NEW FORTNITE SEASON ACTUALLY LOOKS INCREDIBLE. WE ARE BACK!
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These ARE the tools you’re looking for!
Create your own galaxy with Star Wars in UEFN and Fortnite Creative. Find out more: fn.gg/star-wars-tools
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@DeepHumor Nowadays NetChoice mostly fights on the side of good, and is happy to take funding from anyone who’s willing to spent regardless of alignment. There’s clearly a massive realignment of advocacy orgs at the moment as Big Tech fragments into Team Open and Team Surveillance State.
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I've shouted you guys out for doing great work before, but I have a genuine question: why are you guys partnered with Meta despite them being exposed for pushing all the ID age verification laws in the first place?
NetChoice@NetChoice
🚨🚨 Court Rules Against California’s Trojan Horse for Censorship for FOURTH Time PASADENA, Calif.—Today, NetChoice secured a major victory from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which agreed that a majority of California’s Online Speech Code was unconstitutional. Of the six substantive provisions NetChoice challenged, five remain enjoined after today’s decision, and the remaining provision is hanging by a thread. NetChoice will continue to vociferously make our case that the entire law, which is a Trojan Horse for mass digital censorship in America, is unconstitutional and must be stopped. “Today’s decision is a huge victory for free speech and essentially a death knell for California’s online speech code. California cannot mandate vague and onerous changes to how speech is disseminated online. The Ninth Circuit was clear: on the substance, NetChoice is likely to prevail,” said @Paul_Taske, Co-Director of the NetChoice Litigation Center. Taske continued: “This law is hanging on by a thread. To the extent there is some additional work to do in the district court, we look forward to making a full showing and striking down California’s Speech Code permanently.”
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Epic and Disney now let Fortnite creators make Star Wars games theverge.com/games/897163/f…
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@alexprismbreak There's a real concern underlying this with scams where callers convince users to install malware, along the lines of: malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025….
Keeping open platforms healthy will require combatting threats like this without falling back to monopoly distribution.
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Google just announced a "developer mode" coming to Android. It continues to enable installing unsigned software, a key use case in hobby development and in human rights tools. And it has serious safeguards against the most potent malware attacks like AI impersonation.
TechCrunch@TechCrunch
Google introduces a new way for users to sideload Android apps that still protects against scams techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/goo…
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Meanwhile, Apple has lost their way. They're not only blocking competing stores outside of EU, Japan, and Brazil; they're actually blocking useful features of developer tools on the App Store, preventing a new generation of kids from learning to code.
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9to5Mac@9to5mac
Apple pushing back on 'vibe coding' iPhone apps, developers say 9to5mac.com/2026/03/18/app… by @apollozac
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Android is now on track to support both major safety scenarios in open platforms: software from known and accountable developers, and the ability for anyone to be a developer and to make and share software without having to say 'please', begun in the Apple II days.
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Apple’s latest DMA compliance report is a "compliance mirage," masking a refusal to implement the EU rules.
The EC ruled in April 2025 that Apple's fee structure is illegal. "Steering" must be free of charge—yet Apple continues to impose restrictive financial hurdles. 🧵👇
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@jordwalke @9to5mac @apollozac Thanks for all of your efforts! And please spread the world about how dumb the development tools prohibitions are!
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@TimSweeneyEpic @9to5mac @apollozac Hi Tim, I lead Product at Replit. We are trying everything we can to make sure people can continue building apps with Replit on iOS. We’ve seen so many non technical people build apps using Replit that help their families/communities. Everyone should have access to build-DMs open
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Apple pushing back on 'vibe coding' iPhone apps, developers say 9to5mac.com/2026/03/18/app… by @apollozac
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See @QDragoNaaK's note on getting 20% savings. Epic direct payment is available through Google Play's version of Fortnite in the US, and through Epic Games Store's version worldwide.
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XDragoNaaK@QDragoNaaK
@TimSweeneyEpic When you download it from Play Store there is no option to use Epic's Payment Process. This causes us to not be able to get %20 cashback rewards from purchases made from Play Store. I'll just download Epic Games Store
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Fortnite is back on Google Play Store worldwide. And it's also on the Epic Games Store for Android worldwide. Thanks Google!
Fortnite Underground@FNBRunderground
The free Yeddy skin Quests are now live on #Fortnite for mobile devices like Android phones📱 1️⃣ Download and launch Fortnite on your mobile device 2️⃣ Use the Sidebar and click the "Invite a friend" button - you don't actually have to invite anyone, clicking the button is enough 3️⃣ Earn a level in any Fortnite experience This works even if you've installed Fortnite on Android through the Epic Games Store app. I haven't tested it out on iOS, but assume it works there, too. The promotion runs for all of Season 2.
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@NewsAndLeaksBR The team here is working to implement Apple's elaborate iOS purchasing surveillance API that Apple requires for Fortnite to return to Brazil and Japan. Estimate is 2 months, but not certain.
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@TimSweeneyEpic Hey Tim, is there any prediction for when Fortnite will return to iOS in Brazil?
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Fortnite is back on Google Play everywhere! To celebrate, all mobile players will be able to unlock the Yeddy skin by completing missions on their phone.
Showdown starts at 7am ET: fn.gg/play-store
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