Elon Musk Pledges to Summon British MPs to the US

Elon Musk Pledges to Summon British MPs to the US
Above: US President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024. Image copyright: Brandon Bell/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Spin

Right narrative

This crusade against Musk's free speech advocacy is unlikely to end well for the UK government. That 10 Downing St. has been increasingly hostile to civil rights is self-evident, and its failed attempts to shut down the ultra-popular tech pioneer is a bad look. Committees can threaten to summon him, and Labour activists can propose legal action all they like, but Musk has done nothing wrong in criticising Starmer's woke premiership.

Left narrative

Musk is only a champion of freedom of speech when it suits him, on the one hand spewing disinformation on his right-wing propaganda platform while on the other censoring pro-democracy dissidents on behalf of authoritarian states. It's clear that he went too far inciting unrest in the UK this summer. The UK must stand up to Musk and remind the tech mogul that, despite what he may think, his words do have consequences.

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