Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To think that Musk is now overstepping himself and the UK gvt should threaten action

610 replies

Bogginsthe3rd · 07/01/2025 02:02

Musk has just posted this on twitter (among other unhinged tweets). To me this reads as a thinly veiled threat to democratically elected UK MPs and actually the UK government should consider sanctions to the US if he continues this attack when he enters the White House?

To think that Musk is now overstepping himself and the UK gvt should threaten action
OP posts:
Thread gallery
16
OneLemonDog · 09/01/2025 22:02

randomchap · 09/01/2025 22:00

Do you mean this goth one?

https://imgur.com/gallery/when-elon-was-goth-xqyOe7B

Show quote history

No no, the one of him in a childish onesie, rolling a joint. It's linked in my post.

bakebeans · 09/01/2025 21:59

GabriellaMontez · 09/01/2025 21:17

Wtf?

You're not getting this free speech thing at all are you?

Show quote history

Yep. I certainly am. I don’t think you are though. They is one thing expressing free speech and one thing chipping on decisions ofa government of a country. Can you imagine the Uk had called out on pensioner Biden or Donald trump!

if he is so for ‘free speech’ as you say why hasn’t he called out Putin on Twitter?? Hes so against abuse but in some countries it’s still happening and no crime deemed to be committed so no prosecution
This is not free speech. He’s also accused an MP who has fought for years against domestic violence.

OneLemonDog · 09/01/2025 21:27

bombastix · 09/01/2025 21:25

Is that the one where he's dressed like a goth with the receding hairline?

No, it's a new one

https://i.imgur.com/ZVLa1y0.jpeg

Though I appreciate it's hard to keep up with all the people he's banned for posting things he doesn't like.

https://i.imgur.com/ZVLa1y0.jpeg

bombastix · 09/01/2025 21:25

Is that the one where he's dressed like a goth with the receding hairline?

OneLemonDog · 09/01/2025 21:23

GabriellaMontez · 09/01/2025 21:17

Wtf?

You're not getting this free speech thing at all are you?

Show quote history

Speaking of, I see free-speech-absoltuinist Elon has today banned someone from X for sharing an unflattering image of him.

GabriellaMontez · 09/01/2025 21:17

bakebeans · 09/01/2025 20:47

Why isn’t he publicly calling out putin then! Or Donald trump if he’s so righteous or other world leaders where abuse and female genital mutilation is still going on??
No it’s a hidden agenda to demoralise the Uk!

Show quote history

Wtf?

You're not getting this free speech thing at all are you?

bakebeans · 09/01/2025 20:47

wellington77 · 08/01/2025 22:34

just because he’s not voted In to power or in our country doesn’t mean it’s not related to democracy and freedom of speech. I and everyone else have a right to hear him anbd a government should not be shutting that down. HE has a right to have his opinion on any country. So yes it is called democracy and freedom of speech. And no I don’t like him I think he’s a twat.

Show quote history

Why isn’t he publicly calling out putin then! Or Donald trump if he’s so righteous or other world leaders where abuse and female genital mutilation is still going on??
No it’s a hidden agenda to demoralise the Uk!

BornFreeButinChains · 09/01/2025 20:44

The abuse shouted at all politicians is awful, tory scum, chucking stuff at them when they don't know if it's acid or a milk shake, throwing bricks through leadership hopefuls windows and being so derogatory about jp is all unpleasant but forgive me I've not seen her yet surrounded by a baying mob with a police escorts and I hope I never will

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 20:37

DuncinToffee · 09/01/2025 20:35

Most civilised people would condemn a tweet calling a female MP a witch

They would indeed.

DuncinToffee · 09/01/2025 20:35

Most civilised people would condemn a tweet calling a female MP a witch

wellington77 · 09/01/2025 20:34

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 20:31

Most civilised people don’t call other people witches.

Of course they don’t, doesn’t Mean you ban it! That’s nuts.

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 20:31

Most civilised people don’t call other people witches.

wellington77 · 09/01/2025 20:21

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 17:34

No country has unfettered freedom of speech. We have numerous laws that regulate it. Libel and slander laws and inditement to name just three. Social media might mislead you to think this isn’t the case but you’d be wrong.

Show quote history

Yes but most civilised people don’t censor someone because they called someone a witch 🙄

DuncinToffee · 09/01/2025 19:23

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 19:04

I suspect genocidal rape apologist might be.

Show quote history

Even if they are not, the tweet was a lie and endangered JP.

It's difficult to believe that people think that is ok because of free speech, hurty words etc

bombastix · 09/01/2025 19:18

Pah. Reckon Musk is more concerned with;

  1. Possibility EU/UK regulate X

  2. White women not having enough children in US/EU/UK

  3. Immigrants he does not find financially useful (see 2)

  4. Obtaining government contracts

  5. Chinese overproduction

  6. Ensuring his ketamine drip does not have a kink in it

TheHateIsNotGood · 09/01/2025 19:13

Thankfully I've lost my password to X-twits and have no desire to find it or create a new account although I am rather pleased that Andy Burnham supports a 'limited' inquiry.

I would support a limited inquiry too, into the nationwide scale of these atrocities against girls (and possibly boys too) and the processes followed and actions taken or not taken when complaints arose. And like Jess Phillips stated, if the victims want [us] to have an Inquiry, then we [should] have one.

Musk completely went after the wrong person in Jess and well done her for saying "Elon Musk is gonna elon musk". Although it's some extra shit she didn't need to deal with but I hope one day she will look back and see it for the laughable actions they are - "The day the richest man in the world had a go at me".

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 19:04

OneLemonDog · 09/01/2025 18:53

Elon Musk is a whopper and is dangerous, but those tweets are not libelous.

I suspect genocidal rape apologist might be.

OneLemonDog · 09/01/2025 18:53

Elon Musk is a whopper and is dangerous, but those tweets are not libelous.

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 18:50

They still apply. Freedom of speech is limited.

1dayatatime · 09/01/2025 18:18

@BIossomtoes

"No country has unfettered freedom of speech. We have numerous laws that regulate it. Libel and slander laws and inditement to name just three. Social media might mislead you to think this isn’t the case but you’d be wrong."

True but there are very specific circumstances for those laws to apply.

For example calling someone a "witch" or "woefully uninformed on UK law" are most definitely not examples of libel.

RocketMalfunctionPending · 09/01/2025 18:14

and so are teslas

RocketMalfunctionPending · 09/01/2025 18:14

UndergroundOvergroundWomblingFreeby · 09/01/2025 17:50

Don't buy a Tesla
Delete X off your phone.
Ignore him and don't give him the satisfaction of being discussed.

Exactly.

Change things with direct action.

X is shit anyway.

UndergroundOvergroundWomblingFreeby · 09/01/2025 17:50

Don't buy a Tesla
Delete X off your phone.
Ignore him and don't give him the satisfaction of being discussed.

BIossomtoes · 09/01/2025 17:34

Notaflippinclue · 09/01/2025 17:23

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government. When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.
Maybe we need a proper constitution,

No country has unfettered freedom of speech. We have numerous laws that regulate it. Libel and slander laws and inditement to name just three. Social media might mislead you to think this isn’t the case but you’d be wrong.