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 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.
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.
Who does he think he is? He’s like the kid that teamed up with the bullies and now tries to speak as though he has the same authority, lol. He’s a mere magazine cover away from being shit-canned, as others who took tRump’s limelight away discovered. I’ll have popcorn ready to watch Musk get the Banon treatment!
It’s almost like he gave Trump an advantage so huge he owes him, huh? Like it’s weird Trump isn’t reeling him in at all, right? Anyone?
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.
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
told you he was gonna act like this to empty threats. he is acting not just like a spoiled kid but like an enabled one, the worst kind.
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.
Hahahaha haha hahahahahahaha
Oh that’s a good one.
So, Musk is the idiocrary era Göring?
We got a badass over here. Is Musk gonna threaten them with his katana if they don’t comply?
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?
Summon deez nutts in yo mouf
