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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  • Ænima
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    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!

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

  • @[email protected]
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    225 hours 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.

  • @FangedWyvern42
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    228 hours 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.

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

  • @iAvicenna
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    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.

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

  • @Maggoty
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    1511 hours ago

    Hahahaha haha hahahahahahaha

    Oh that’s a good one.

  • @[email protected]
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    4016 hours ago

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

  • @fluxion
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    3319 hours ago

    Summon deez nutts in yo mouf

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    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.

    • @DrCake
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      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.

    • @disgrunty
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      Farage and his Reform party exists. So that’s at least one MP that I could see saying yes.

      • @RadioFreeArabia
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        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.

        • @disgrunty
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          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]
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        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.

  • @ThePyroPython
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    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.

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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    3120 hours ago

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

    • @hakunawazo
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      I haven’t a strong opinion about cursive but about overly influential billionaires.

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      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.

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

  • @Siegfried
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    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

    • @Psythik
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      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.

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