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Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 25 January - 12:00
Experts suspect X owner’s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law
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.
In a ferocious flurry of tweets of his X platform this month, days before formally joining the Trump administration, the world’s richest man portrayed Britain as a dystopian “police state” run by a “tyrannical government” in which young working-class women are routinely kidnapped off the streets by gangs of immigrants.
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