British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots
British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots
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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Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter) saw misinformation about the identity of the attacker — wrongly identified as an asylum seeker who had just arrived in the U.K. — spread widely in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
The X boss has also come under fire for re-instating the account of high-profile far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who co-founded the English Defense League.
Just ban Twitter you fucking cowards
Better still tax any UK business for advertising with twitter.
By taxing the advertiser musk can't move the revenue to a different nation. And any competitor gains UK customers.
Can't thin, of a clearer don't fuck with UK democracy hint.
why not both?
Chicken shit musk wouldn't step foot on uk soil if this was a thing.
Head on a pike. Only resolution with which I'll ever be satisfied with all issues Musk.
He would look pretty good decorating Micklegate Bar.
Good! Because he is absolutely complicit in the rise of hatred
100%, preferably cuffed.
And over hot coals.
I'm pretty sure the UK has quite a strong extradition power over the USA. Like all it takes is a British judge to summon someone in the USA for them to be extradited, few questions asked. The USA does have the same power mutually over the UK.
There is always an extradition hearing if nothing else to ensure it comports with the governing treaty. The US and UK treaty has the usual provisions that it has to be a cognizable crime in America (with Article 2 essentially limiting that to felonies) and can not be political prosecution. Pretty much only militaries can summon someone as you say, and literally only by acting extrajudicially (think black helicopters in the middle of the night making the arrest).
I would settle for a couple of cozzers pulling up in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to make the arrest
Not so much in the case of the killer of Harry Dunn.
This case alone has absolutely tarnished the reputation that the US has in the UK in the eyes of many people. It's something people aren't going to forget for a very long time, and could prove a blocker for cases where the US wishes to extradite in the future.
Not really. The extradition agreement is extremely one-sided, in favor of the US.
You serious? You actually think the US would deport musk against his will. No the only way Musk is coming over to the UK to face questioning is if he chooses to come over of his own accord. Which he probably will do because he'll think it's an opportunity to grandstand.
Farage, sitting mere meters away when they return
30p Lee, his arms wide?
When the Greggs fall
Is Blackberry Messenger still a thing?
I'd prefer a good old keel hauling.
Elon Musk the PayPal founder?
He's done a few things since then but rarely makes the news these days.
Nah, elon musk the false valor purchaser
He would love it.
I don’t know what it’s going to take for them to understand that.
In a perverse way, I hope Musk shows up and reminds them of order of things - that they exist to serve capital and not the other way around .
I don't get it. Could you explain what you mean by that?
Elon works on "attention economy" and in the information age that's really all that matters. Good new bad news he'll take it all.
Twitter sold for more then England's GDP. Even if England banned twitter his value would probably still go up.
it's a Hexbear user, don't think too hard about them
As Don Lemon found out, Elon doesnt like uncomfortable questions. He likes attention though.