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.’’
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 2y
If he was able to act responsibly, he wouldn't have ended up having to spend twice Twitter's value to buy it.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Didn't he make an offer and then regret it and try to sabotage the deal but Twitter accepted anyway?
jlh@lemmy.jlh.name · 26 pts · 2y
incitement to violence?
adam_y@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
MagicShel@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y
If that alone were a crime, we'd all be in trouble. But Elon would be first in line.
adam_y@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
OsaErisXero@kbin.run · 8 pts · 2y
Yep. Until the UK issues a warrant for his arrest, this is going to continue
Paradachshund@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 2y
Think they're going to need more than a strongly worded letter.
takeda@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
At least they didn't tweet it.
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
It’s almost as if letting someone have virtually unlimited power shouldn’t be allowed.
ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
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.
ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Strongly painted picture?
ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Oh, “UK government”. You sweet summer children.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one · 10 pts · 2y
Why doesn't the UK government grow some fucking balls and simply ban the entire platform?
ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Oh-wait-you're-serious.gif
Elon? Act responsibly? These people know who they're talking to, right?
j4k3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Feudal Lord Musk will do as he pleases.
TheBigBrother@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Good luck trying to arrest him, with his amount of money he can perfectly give a flying fuck about it.
MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 2y
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