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”.
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 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’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.
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.
Well, his tough talk worked with Brazil, didn’t it?
Does he think he is the leader of the world or something? A week ago or so, he said that if the EU limits starlink in anyway, USA will pull off from NATO
Yes he does. As someone else stated in another thread, going full Nazi was Elon’s way of becoming President of the United States without actually having to be born there.
I mean, yeah he does. He’s a narcissistic loon
Hey! You can’t just disrespect loons like that!
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.
We got a badass over here. Is Musk gonna threaten them with his katana if they don’t comply?
Summon deez nutts in yo mouf
But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?
I haven’t a strong opinion about cursive but about overly influential billionaires.
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!
Don’t forget the trap card in defense mode
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.
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
“Bwahahaha!” - UK MPs probably.
The idiot man-child can “summon” as much as he wants, but they’re sovereigns of another country and can’t make them do shit if they don’t feel like it.
I wish Crown Prosecution Service would just issue an arrest warrant for him.
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”.
