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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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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dude has rot in his brain like damn. Yes he can always just run away, but that wont improve his situation. If you dont answer when you are accused, the sentencing will happen without you. If the UK and EU ban twitter, he wont like that, so its in his own best interest to show up.

If you wanna do business somewhere, you will answer to the laws of that place or deal with the consequences.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Sure, I was speaking in more general terms about the bizarre claim that we fought a war to stop the UK Parliament from summoning Americans.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 months ago

I mean... That was one of our formal complaints that all criminal trials in colonial American times happened in England instead of locally before a jury of peers, but to ignore the entire legal tradition of jurisdiction and extradition to focus entirely on that is... Dumb. Even then I'm pretty sure Patrick Henry would agree if Elon Musk committed a crime in London, where he should be tried is London. The argument the thread starter is making requires ignoring what the actual formal complaints was and instead flattening it into a simplified version that basically translates to "lol england bad"

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Musk is a narcissist, so he's probably thining the UK wouldn't dare ban Twitter, now that he's made it so awesome.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

and then get suprised when they ban Shitter

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