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”.
We got a badass over here. Is Musk gonna threaten them with his katana if they don’t comply?
But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?
Summon deez nutts in yo mouf
I wish Crown Prosecution Service would just issue an arrest warrant for him.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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
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.
“Bwahahaha!” - UK MPs probably.
