To want Elon Musk to stay the fuck out of U.K. politics?

[Birdscratch]

And German politics and just focus on the President he’s already paid for and turning X into a toxic wasteland.

It is so infuriating because he neither understands nor cares about any of these issues - he just wants to throw his weight around and influence politics to demonstrate how important he is.

If he cared about abused women he could easily afford to set up and fund in perpetuity crisis centres and shelters, but he's not going to do that is he? Because everything about him screams he's the kind of guy who thinks women make up assault allegations all the time.

Like 'Tommy Robinson' he just wants to use an emotive situation to stir racist shit - the Rochdale scenario has been thoroughly investigated and practices change to prevent inaction again. And 'Robinson' is similarly no defender of women, in fact his imprisonment stems in part for endangering the trial of abusers and could have led to them going free because of his interference.

Wow, you're absolutely ridiculous.

Some is hate filled, some is not. That is the whole purpose of freedom of speech.

I suspect Tesla investors might wish that Mr. Musk put a tenth the effort he puts into running other countries into running his motor car company

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/02/tesla-first-sales-drop-decade-leftwing-backlash-elon-musk/

He and a group of very rich venture capitalists are why trump is back in the whitehouse. The first time trump got in, it was a fluke. The second time was on purpose, because he showed how easily manipulated he is.

Now he's set his sights on Farage and reform, and if we don't do something about it, he will reinstall a far right government in the UK.

He knows that we have a child sex abuse problem, but seems hellbent on claiming it's related to immigration when it's not. This is not to say there aren't dangerous immigrants because there are, but we have plenty of home grown monsters that rape children.

I'd also like to point out that women and girls aren't the only victims. These men do horrible things to little boys and young teen boys too.

Yeah those Russian bots are really set up to spread messages about tolerance, democracy and acceptance.

Which part of freedom of speech are you missing? I come across content I don't like all the time, it doesn't mean I think it shouldn't be allowed or given a platform, that's called living in an echo chamber.

Take Musk out of the equation and whether you like him or not. Take out the fact he (and his bots) are focused on causing division by putting the spotlight on crimes or purported crimes on immigrants. We are heading into a very bleak place if we sit back and allow this kind of influence in our political system and elections. It’s not just monetary influence but it’s the use of social media platforms to fire off misinformation and propaganda to fix elections. It’s happened elsewhere, look at the recent election in Romania, it can happen here. There needs to be strict regulations on this and it needs to happen now. It dumbs down the argument if this turns into a personality debate about Musk.

The UK and USA don't stay out of politics so

Sometimes I wish I could like a post more than once. This is one of them.

Genuine question. If we as a society are overwhelmingly concerned about the power and influence of Social Media in this way. What's the answer? And who enforces that.

Everything feels so corrupt and self serving at this level I wouldn't even trust a regulator regulating a regulator.

Why shouldn't the spotlight be shone on crimes committed by immigrants?! This is the very reason the inquiry is being blocked.

At no point in my post do I make reference to an enquiry being refused?
Nor ,am I influenced by a 'bored billionaire' I couldn't give a shit what he thinks tbh!
My post comes from personal experience and the complete and utter frustration ,that even all these years down the line , people are still waiting for a public enquiry. These children have been let down, pushed to the back.
Do you honestly think that if OC conducted their own enquiry, this would be transparent amd impartial? I don't. One of the their employees was revealed as being on of the main men involved in the scandal !

This usually goes on in the background of politics so it's actually refreshing to see someone of power and influence showing their hand for all to see.

People are free to make their own minds up on issues and are free to choose who they listen to.

If people believe that our politics isn't already influenced by powerful people/groups with less than moral motives then they are extremely naïve!

@Annabella92 your perception of her ineffectiveness is not evidence that Jess Phillips covered anything up.

We are heading into a very bleak place if we sit back and allow this kind of influence in our political system and elections.

We are already there. The amount of foreign money sloshing around in UK politics without any comeback has merely meant there's no need for it to be hidden anymore.

The problem is that pre 2010 social media, the internet was still using stuff like individual forum boards, and had stuff like Livejournal going on which was its own version of social media. With the creation of the iPhone and putting the internet in our hands with smartphone tech, they had the tools to control us easily.

Now a lot of people use Facebook to create subject groups, so there's no need to make your own site. You can make calls on messenger, watch videos and share media, it's a complete package. Twitter has its own version albeit utterly shit. Tiktok and Instagram etc all keep our attention, and the social media overlords control where we are on the internet; it has been shrunk down and it's costlier to create you own forum space, with hosting etc. They don't want us doing that because there's nothing in it for them if they don't control it.

Smartphone technology was both a blessing and a fucking curse. We can't do shit about it, because the folks who own it all, control the people who use it. You might say you want to stop using social media, but you can't if you have family on there who rely on it for connection to you. Once you've gotten invested in something for communication, it's incredibly hard to let go.

I don't use FB, twitter, tiktok, Snapchat or the like. I have an Instagram account because I like looking at dogs, and it's the one way that I keep up with my friends. I use WhatsApp because my immediate family rely on it for communication. I wouldn't use it otherwise.

We need to move away from centralised social media, but it won't happen because people are too reliant on it. It was designed to be addictive and necessary in the online world.

‘Go after’ is an unfortunate turn of phrase. I’m not sure who you’re seeking to offend, sounds more threatening to me.

Do you think this is a sensible, responsible tweet?

I was quite indifferent to him (just associated him with Tesla,being a billionaire, and having loads of kids), but the more he opens his massive gob, the less time I have for him. Don't trust him at all, clearly has an axe to grind and I don't think he is a good person.

That was a quick response 👏🏼

edit - ref to saltedcaramels deleted post.

Oh dear.
We are certainly in for a bumpy ride arnt we with our government and the new USA administration.

People reckon the musk /Trump love in will only last 6 months so...

This. It’s actually anti-democratic and it is frightening.

Depends on what ‘go after’ entails, doesn’t it? Violence and intimidation - or whipping others up to carry out the same, and this is what Musk is doing - is a bit more than offensive.

Hard to believe this ‘debate’ has now turned into putting Jess Phillips on trial.

edited to add that was a response to the weird post about having a reason to go after Jess Phillips. Thankfully seems to have been removed!