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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”.

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Farage and his Reform party exists. So that's at least one MP that I could see saying yes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago

Well, his tough talk worked with Brazil, didn't it?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah he does. He’s a narcissistic loon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Hey! You can't just disrespect loons like that!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The D'Onofrio stare.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

We got a badass over here. Is Musk gonna threaten them with his katana if they don’t comply?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Summon deez nutts in yo mouf

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

I haven't a strong opinion about cursive but about overly influential billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If you can summon from the fey realm, all of that is possible - and more!

[–] Honytawk 3 points 1 month ago

Don't forget the trap card in defense mode

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Nah, the UK had murders committed by state actors in their soil and nothing came out of it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Bwahahaha!" - UK MPs probably.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This person just keeps getting worse. To think that The Simpsons had Lisa sing his praises.

[–] MoogleMaestro 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I wish Crown Prosecution Service would just issue an arrest warrant for him.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Hahahaha haha hahahahahahaha

Oh that's a good one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

So, Musk is the idiocrary era Göring?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And if he was paying attention and not snorting cocaine off a cyber truck's ass, he'd have seen how tRump treats those around him, especially when the other takes the spotlight. Musk is doing the "fuck around" part and will soon feel the "find out" part once tRump no longer needs him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is The Guardian amplifying this idiocy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.