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British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots (www.politico.eu)

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*Musk has spent days beefing with politicians over the far-right unrest sweeping the UK. *

Elon Musk could be summoned for a grilling by British MPs over X’s role in race riots that have rocked the U.K. over the last week, as well as his own incendiary comments about the violence.

Labour MPs Chi Onwurah and Dawn Butler, who are competing to chair parliament’s science, innovation and technology committee, both told POLITICO they’d press the billionaire X owner and other technology executives to answer questions about the role of social media platforms amid mounting unrest in the U.K.

Musk has spent days beefing with British politicians over the riots, and is locked in a war of words with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the U.K's handling of them. Musk on Sunday wrote “civil war is inevitable” in the U.K. and claimed that the response by U.K. police has been “one-sided."

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[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 167 points 3 months ago

He has clearly been inciting the riots online. Treat him like all the other instigators of this and put out an arrest warrant for terrorism. He should stand in a court room and answer for his actions like everyone else, the billions shouldn't mean he gets to talk to parliament first.

[-] jprice@kbin.run 51 points 3 months ago

If there’s any group that needs to be taken out, it’s the PayPal mafia of Theil and Musk.

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[-] Sir_packsalot2@lemmynsfw.com 50 points 3 months ago

If you take him there's no returns

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

As they should. Online grifters should be held accountable for the lives they destroy.

[-] mrmule@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Why not just block that whole dumpster fire

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

And he will just politely decline.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 64 points 3 months ago

"Politely" is doubtful. Same guy who told his advertisers to go fuck themselves and now is suing them for not using his platform anymore.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Sarcasm does not translate well in writing.. but I refuse to use /s.. but yes.

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[-] frunch@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Love how this guy's one of the richest people in the world yet he's got nothin better to do than fuck with the common folk. Guess he doesn't get enough attention at home, so here we are watching him stoke racism and stupidity to entertain his pathetic insecure self

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Love how this guy's one of the richest people in the world yet he's got nothin better to do than fuck with the common folk.

to entertain his pathetic insecure self

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Capitalism replaced feudalism; and the new aristocrats are the billionaires.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's actually so much simpler than that. He's tweaked the Twitter algorithm to serve more right wing brain rot for engagement and, being a habitual user, rotted his own fucking brain more and more. He's indirectly self radicalizing. He's getting high on his own supply.

At least zuck doesn't actually use that shithole called Facebook.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 months ago

Not trying to minimise this

But this also works as a test drive for what he can do in the US

[-] somenonewho@feddit.org 27 points 3 months ago

Less to the point of the article and more to it's wording:

Why the fuck do they call it "race riots" as far as I can tell there are a bunch of rioting fascists and then a broad group of people (refugees, local citizens and Antifa) trying to defend places or stop the riots. This is not a black vs white fight this fight is between fascism and anti-fascism (or at least democracy)

[-] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Why do you think it's more fascist or than racist? The political "right" of the UK is incredibly anti-immigrant, you can see that in how they've voted for MPs and Brexit. The racial hate is more noticeable towards brown people, i.e. anyone looking anything from Arab to south Asian, there's even the p-word that comes close (but isnt quite) the equivalent of the n-word.

[-] somenonewho@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

Sorry I didn't mean to imply that the Nazis aren't racist I definitely know that. For me it's just a different framing between "There are Race riots" (i.e. riots/fights between racial identies) vs fascist/racists rioting because of their racists reasons (and people fighting them in a (self)defense way. I hope I made clear what I meant.

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[-] sudo42@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Musk is really upping his asshole game. He's alienated 50% of the US, a good bit of Norway and now Britain.

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

DO IT YOU FUCKING COWARDS

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Promise the protesters you'll squeeze rich people like Musk and his companies for all they're worth to solve the issues with housing and NHS to start with.

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Let's fucking go. Drag this fucker Infront of parliament.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

They should. It’s nuts this motherfucker has the influence he does. He’s an actual dipshit who’s only able to do this because he was born into money and failed upwards. He’s a moron with outsized influence. Hold him to account, please.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Shitheels has a fucking opinion on how to run everything it seems. Clear sign he should run nothing, since the only thing being actually run is his fucking mouth.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I was hoping they meant “keel-haul Musk” because I approve this message.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Today in “Stop! I can only get so hard!! 😖😰” news…

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