Elon Musk has said UK MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens” in a fresh escalation of tensions between the world’s richest man and Labour.
Musk, who has been a fixture at the side of Donald Trump since his re-election as US president, was responding to a Guardian report on Wednesday that the Commons’ science and technology select committee would call him to give evidence in the new year in its inquiry into the spread of harmful content on social media after the August riots.
The committee’s chair, Chi Onwurah, a Labour MP, said she wanted to see how Musk, who owns the X social media platform, “reconciles his promotion of freedom of expression with his promotion of pure disinformation”.
Why is The Guardian amplifying this idiocy?
Wdym “amplifying?” It’s already amplified - Elon is acting in an official-unofficial way with the incoming Trump admin. It’s what happened. The Guardian is literally just reporting it and not advocating for a side or a position. Like it or not what Elon wants and says now matters. Even if we ignore him, the government will still act on what he says.
The probable response I’m expecting from British MPs (and government): “Shut the fuck up.”
Musk is such an insufferably man-child. The UK government should just restrict or ban Twitter. It’s a shithole network that is hemorrhaging users. Blue Sky or Mastodon can pick up any of the surplus demand. And nothing of value would be lost if Twitter dies.
Just get all government accounts off Twitter. A lot of people still use Twitter because of these “important” accounts, the less of them, the more people are happy to move elsewhere.
Farage and his Reform party exists. So that’s at least one MP that I could see saying yes.
I’m surprised anyone still listens to him. His whole thing with Brexit was taking the money sent to the EU to fund the NHS. It was obviously lies, but many Brexit supporters made this argument.
God, I forgot about that. I used to work in an office full of Farage fans and that was one of the most common threads back in 2016. There was a large amount of open racism, too. It was an experience.
I’m pretty sure even Farage doesn’t want to fly to America to get his ass kicked. He might to suck some billionaire cock, though.
I wish Crown Prosecution Service would just issue an arrest warrant for him.
But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?
I should probably pre-apologize for that joke. I don’t play a lot of fantasy games and I don’t really know what gets summoned. I promise, though, I’m a big enough nerd for Lemmy. I have 3 telescopes and probably every Raspberry Pi model if we look through the drawers in my soldering desk.
I should probably pre-apologize for this joke too.
If you can summon from the fey realm, all of that is possible - and more!
I haven’t a strong opinion about cursive but about overly influential billionaires.
Don’t forget the trap card in defense mode
So, Musk is the idiocrary era Göring?
This person just keeps getting worse. To think that The Simpsons had Lisa sing his praises.
To think that The Simpsons had Lisa sing his praises.
For real? I have never heard this before.
If true, it is simply more evidence in the court of “this show used to be funny, but it lost the plot x seasons ago”.
Summon deez nutts in yo mouf
Since this is clearly a threat from a powerful individual towards MPs, this should be cause enough to charge Musk with some kind of crime and issue an arrest warrant in this country.
Nah, the UK had murders committed by state actors in their soil and nothing came out of it
haha, still doing the “face down look up, don’t you see how intense I am?” stare. pure cringe elonia. I remember doing that in middle school when I was a super hard core bad ass that you better not mess with! :D
The Kubrick stare.
The D’Onofrio stare.
With what authority Musk? Oh yeah that’s right, you have none. You hold no elected position in government.
Just to piss him off, the UK should open the second spaceport in Wales and give launch access to Ariane, ULA, Rocket Lab, and Firefly.
Hahahaha haha hahahahahahaha
Oh that’s a good one.
The committee’s chair, Chi Onwurah, a Labour MP, said she wanted to see how Musk, who owns the X social media platform, “reconciles his promotion of freedom of expression with his promotion of pure disinformation”.
That’s a bit fucking rich coming from Kid Starver and his party of loyal Labour Zionosts. Labour have been ‘promoting pure disinformation’ and removing rights to ‘free expression’ at breakneck speed since they smeared Corbyn.
What freedom of expression/from pure disinformation is Labour protecting?
They’ve raided the homes of journalists reporting too honestly on the Palestinian genocide.
They’re actively promoting transphobia and enforcing medical harm to trans folk by supporting the politically motivated hateful bullshit in the Cass report.
Fuck Labour.
I thought this sounds like a lunatic downvote and then I read the actually points and you’re not wrong upvote
I wish more people knew how to read.
Agree that Starmer is bought and paid for by Zios. But Musk is still an insufferable douche
No shit. I’m not defending musk.
Agree that Starmer is bought and paid for by Zios. But Musk is still an insufferable douche
They raided journalists’ homes? I am not as wired in to the news as I have been so I must’ve missed this, what happened?
Counter terrorism police raid home of journalist for exposing Israeli crimes
There was another I remember reading about too, a woman. I’m struggling to find anything on google though. If I can remember some of the article wording and find it, I’ll let you know.
Jesus. That’s worrying.
Yeah fucking tell me about it.
Jailing Palestine Supporters is Starmers Latest Enthusiasm
The other journalist was Sarah Wilkinson who is under house arrest and faces prison.
And on a related but seperate note, to add to the ‘Fuck Labour’ sentiment, Labour has been imprisoning climate protesters too, some have gotten years.
Well, his tough talk worked with Brazil, didn’t it?
Pretty arrogant of him to think that UK MPs are willing to travel to America to be mansplained to by a South African emerald mine nepo baby.
