Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation

Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation
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Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation
Author: Julian Borger
Published: Jan, 25 2025 12:00

Summary at a Glance

For those wondering why Elon Musk, the tycoon newly infamous for his stiff-arm salutes, developed a sudden ferocious interest in the UK this month, the answer may lie in an arcane piece of online media legislation working its way gradually towards fruition.

He went further, singling out the prime minister and Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, for being “deeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes” and he described a cabinet member, Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding (protecting young girls from harm, for example), as a “rape genocide apologist”.

A Financial Times analysis of Musk’s tweets in the first week in January found that 225 out of Musk’s 616 tweets and retweets in that period were about UK politics.

It’s about tech regulation Experts suspect X owner’s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law.

He said his “nana” was “one of the poor working-class girls with no one to protect her who might have been abducted in present day Britain”.

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