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The British government has called on Elon Musk to act responsibly after the tech billionaire used his social media platform X to unleash a barrage of posts that officials say risk inflaming the violent unrest gripping the country.

Justice Minister Heidi Alexander made the comments Tuesday morning after Musk posted a comment saying that “Civil war is inevitable” in the U.K. Musk later doubled down, highlighting complaints that the British criminal justice system treats Muslims more leniently than far-right activists and comparing Britain’s crackdown on social media users to the Soviet Union.

“Use of language such as a ‘civil war’ is in no way acceptable,’’ Alexander told Times Radio. “We are seeing police officers being seriously injured, buildings set alight, and so I really do think that everyone who has a platform should be exercising their power responsibly.’’

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If he was able to act responsibly, he wouldn't have ended up having to spend twice Twitter's value to buy it.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Didn't he make an offer and then regret it and try to sabotage the deal but Twitter accepted anyway?

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just being an absolute wanker.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If that alone were a crime, we'd all be in trouble. But Elon would be first in line.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Hey, I'd go down if I knew he'd go down with me.

[–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 8 points 1 month ago

Yep. Until the UK issues a warrant for his arrest, this is going to continue

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Think they're going to need more than a strongly worded letter.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

At least they didn't tweet it.

[–] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s almost as if letting someone have virtually unlimited power shouldn’t be allowed.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's almost as if this is letting someone have virtually unlimited power, because this isn't opposing him in any serious or significant way.

[–] ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Strongly painted picture?

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, well, as long as they ask the hyper wealthy openly fascist nicely.. 🙄

Brings a quote to mind:

"Only one thing could have stopped us – if our adversaries had, from the first day, smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our movement.” - Hitler

At this point - "calls" such as this are nothing but bare faced mockery of the seriousness of the threat he and those he funds and influences, pose.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, “UK government”. You sweet summer children.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 points 1 month ago

Why doesn't the UK government grow some fucking balls and simply ban the entire platform?

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Elon? Act responsibly? These people know who they're talking to, right?

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Feudal Lord Musk will do as he pleases.

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Good luck trying to arrest him, with his amount of money he can perfectly give a flying fuck about it.