The British government has called on Elon Musk to act responsibly after the tech billionaire used his social media platform X to unleash a barrage of posts that officials say risk inflaming the violent unrest gripping the country.
Justice Minister Heidi Alexander made the comments Tuesday morning after Musk posted a comment saying that “Civil war is inevitable” in the U.K. Musk later doubled down, highlighting complaints that the British criminal justice system treats Muslims more leniently than far-right activists and comparing Britain’s crackdown on social media users to the Soviet Union.
“Use of language such as a ‘civil war’ is in no way acceptable,’’ Alexander told Times Radio. “We are seeing police officers being seriously injured, buildings set alight, and so I really do think that everyone who has a platform should be exercising their power responsibly.’’
If he was able to act responsibly, he wouldn’t have ended up having to spend twice Twitter’s value to buy it.
Didn’t he make an offer and then regret it and try to sabotage the deal but Twitter accepted anyway?
Think they’re going to need more than a strongly worded letter.
At least they didn’t tweet it.
It’s almost as if letting someone have virtually unlimited power shouldn’t be allowed.
It’s almost as if this is letting someone have virtually unlimited power, because this isn’t opposing him in any serious or significant way.
Strongly painted picture?
Oh, “UK government”. You sweet summer children.
Why doesn’t the UK government grow some fucking balls and simply ban the entire platform?
Ah, well, as long as they ask the hyper wealthy openly fascist nicely… 🙄
Brings a quote to mind:
"Only one thing could have stopped us – if our adversaries had, from the first day, smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our movement.” - Hitler
At this point - “calls” such as this are nothing but bare faced mockery of the seriousness of the threat he and those he funds and influences, pose.
Feudal Lord Musk will do as he pleases.
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Elon? Act responsibly? These people know who they’re talking to, right?
Good luck trying to arrest him, with his amount of money he can perfectly give a flying fuck about it.
