UK Govt Threatens to Ban Twitter And Potentially Jail Elon Musk If He Allows Free Speech
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Rape gangs: good.
Free speech: bad.
Don't threaten me with a good time, UK (and EU). I'm personally of the belief that perhaps every continent, if not every country, should have its own personal internet. Means outside powers have less of a chance to meddle in the affairs of others. Also, it's up to YOU to enforce your own damn laws within your own damn borders. No one else is obligated to heed your crumbling nation's laws.
I heard a fun idea that various peoples should intentionally make their technology incompatible with everyone else. Everything from bolts to computer architecture would be as diverse as power sockets.
Suppossedly, railroad standards were different in different nations to prevent an invader from taking control of one end of a line and blitzing through your land. Tech could learn a thing or two.
That was sometimes a consideration in rail standards. Other times, it was politics or nationalism or simply because that's what they built. In the case of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Hungarians liked to assert that they were separate and rail gauge was one of the ways they did it, which was a bit of a problem for Austrian logistics in WW1.
That sounds like a great thing.
All these threats from different governments are pointless. Musk already said Twitter would follow the law of countries they operate in. After they had a discussion even that Saudi prince is no longer opposed to him owning it.
Which kinda sucks, considering he's a "free speech absolutist" not being able to talk to britbongs about their Muslim rape gangs kinda undermines what he wants.
Oh, we can talk to them, they just don't have a loicense to be able to hear it.
right now in USA we're supposed to have 1st amendment free speech but private company twitter can censor, a new owner Musk can choose not to censor because that'd make more profits. They of the board censor and ban conservatives because they're woke but it's costing shareholders money, advertisers pay less with less people on it to see ads. Other countries don't have a 1st amendment so their govt censors and it'd be hard for Musk to stop that.
The global internet is the authority-smearing/broadening mechanism for globalism, like insurance is the smearing/broadening mechanism for socialism. Collectivization and borderlessness is a desirable feature... to the left.
Can you elaborate on that?
Sure. Sharing risk by choice (insurance) is a gateway drug to sharing risk by force (socialism). The steps to the collective:
offer voluntary risk mitigation (property insurances, russia)
mandate it thru legislation (car insurances, india)
nationalize it (obamacare, US, middle east)
constitutionalize it (socialisms, europe)
enforce it via unaccountable NGOs or the like (africa, canada, mexico, other americas)
punish opt-out (gulags, australia, DC)
kill non-participants (communisms, national socialisms, china, ukraine)
The examples are probably squiggie, but it illustrates the point well enough.
He should buy the UK and fire the government
Recent stories show that wouldn't even cost very much.
the government no, but good luck dismantling the NHS
It's doing a good enough job dismantling itself especially after the coof.
Would unironically be cheaper than twitter.
Well, In Poland it's illegal to legally optimize your taxes for the sake of legally optimizing your taxes.
The entire point of creating a tax code that's complex and arcane and offers deductions and exemptions is to allow the wealthy to pay less and shape the behavior of the plebs, and they made it illegal?
First of all, years of "real socialism" have fostered a hate toward the rich and any private business owners, so making it illegal wasn't that far fetched. However that was shut down by Constitutional Court for a while.
Secondly, EU did ATAD, so the law was updated to be compliant with the constitution, but it was still ambiguous AF.
Finally, it is a part of the racket - since it is so ambiguous, it safer to petition for paid advance tax ruling.
Mark Zuckerberg?
Nah, he only controls election officials.
Musk won't save us but I give him credit for factually saying what we'd have to do.
Clickbait. After the headline there is nothing in the linked article about Elon Musk being threatened with jail.
How is this pathetic little island going to enforce its judgments, assuming that by that time it hasn't been annihilated by a nuclear war with Russia that it started?
Reciprocity laws between UK and USA, and target any assets stored in the UK, or any countries that share reciprocity.
So the UK can just arbitrarily impose any random penalty, even in this case where it violates US law as in this case, and the US will enforce it?
How marvelous.
Western governments are illegally seizing assets of private citizens because they happen to be Russian. That precedent is already set.
London is pretty much the main hub of global finance. All sorts of shady business that you can't even get away with in New York is routed through London. It's the capital for financial fraud and rehypthecation. From there money can be routed through countries like Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Monaco to evade the tax.
In my opinion though, its all talk because to many powerful people with links to our political class don't want to upset this arrangement because they know if they can do it to Musk they can do it to anyone else they feel like going after. A lot of dirty money would probably move out of London to somewhere else.
Lmao Ant, stop watching Rassiya-1.
What's that?
I'm saying this because the fatso idiot who is their minister of Defense, said that Putin and his top generals should end like the Nazis. Now imagine if that fat toad were to succeed in that. Obviously, they would have nothing to lose by just nuking them to hell.
Rassiya-1 is the main TV channel, their hosts and guests keep hysterically threatening the Eternal Anglo (and Ireland for that matter) with nuclear annihilation by various means (Satan, Poseidon, etc), shown in cartoonish animations in the style of Nuclear Nadal's presentation from The Dictator. I don't know why you take it any seriously.
The statements by the fat toad?
It's obvious that the West wants this to continue as long as possible. You wouldn't be making such statements if you didn't.
The degree to which western peoples have been conditioned to hate Russia is honestly startling. China and our own government are far bigger threats to America, but leftists see only Putin.
Watch the Red Square parade or something to cheer you up, my main man.
It is not "we will jail Elon" but "any executive". It is misleading. The title suggested that they would be actively going after him and only him.
What other mainstream platform is advocating for free speech? Gab is a little niche boomer site compared to Twitter.
Because the law is broad enough that it will jail GAB executives or Minds or any other platform if they go there.
Misleading title or click baity title.
So not misleading at all. Who decides what constitutes a "serious violation"? Oh right, the ones who can arrest you and take 10% of your global earnings.
Fucking statists.
It is misleading, because it is akin to saying they will jail Elon. Not that the law is broad enough that will jail any other executive.
I guess this is akin to you not understanding tanks can have reverse gear...
Rofl.
I will take banning twitter over having the national conversation dominated by woke twitter.
I'd prefer free speech twitter, but no twitter is still a huge improvement over woke twitter.
Sneaky government, like all governments.