As this insufferable douchebag illustrates, old Twitter was a far left propaganda machine.

Now we actually have free speech.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2024

Is this guy even Jewish?

Who would say something like this?

The Guardian:

Elon Musk should face “personal sanctions” and even the threat of an “arrest warrant” if found to be stirring up public disorder on his social media platform, a former Twitter executive has said.

It cannot be right that the billionaire owner of X, and other tech executives, be allowed to sow discord without personal risks, Bruce Daisley, formerly Twitter’s vice-president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, writes in the Guardian.

Bruce Daisley

He said the prime minister, Keir Starmer, should “beef up” online safety laws and reflect on whether the media regulator, Ofcom, “is fit to deal with the blurringly fast actions of the likes of Musk”.

Elon Musk is a lot of things, but “blurringly fast” is not one of those things.

That isn’t even a fat joke. The guy is seriously slow.

Fat guys can be blurringly fast.

Elon Musk just isn’t one of them.

Elon Musk doesn’t even understand Diablo 4 builds. He’s slow.

(Also, I don’t even know what that means in this context.)

“In my experience, that threat of personal sanction is much more effective on executives than the risk of corporate fines,” Daisley writes, arguing such sanctions could impact the jet-setting lifestyles of tech billionaires.

The UK government has called on social media platforms to act responsibly after violent unrest swept through the UK following the fatal stabbing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday dance class in Southport last month. The prime minister has blamed social media companies for allowing the spread of false claims that the attacker was an asylum seeker and police are increasingly going after those suspected of using online posts to incite violence.

In one post, Musk wrote: “civil war is inevitable” in the UK, language that the justice minister, Heidi Alexander, described as “unacceptable”. Musk has called Starmer “two-tier Keir” and a “hypocrite” over his approach to policing. Musk also shared a false post suggesting Starmer was planning to set up “detainment camps” in the Falkland Islands, a post he later deleted.

Civil war is inevitable

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 4, 2024

Daisley says: “The question we are presented with is whether we’re willing to allow a billionaire oligarch to camp off the UK coastline and take potshots at our society. The idea that a boycott – whether by high-profile users or advertisers – should be our only sanction is clearly not meaningful.”

He continues: “In the short term, Musk and fellow executives should be reminded of their criminal liability for their actions under existing laws. Britain’s Online Safety Act 2023 should be beefed up with immediate effect.”

Yeah, Elon says some stuff. But it’s really the same stuff that everyone says.

It’s very strange to have people publicly calling for people to be arrested in America for edgy posts. Even if they were edgy. And they’re not edgy.

Why would the Guardian even publish this sort of thing? No one even knows who this guy is. “Former Twitter exec” turns out not to be Jack Dorsey or that fat Indian woman, but the “vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa” (whatever that is), who no one has ever heard of, and the Guardian publishes the op-ed then writes a news story about it.

All kinds of people say all kinds of stupid things all the time. The media should have some kind of filter on what is and is not news, no?

Just Elon Musk quote tweeting the co-leader of far-right party, Britain First, who is sharing a fake Telegraph headline

Seen by almost 1 million people in 15 minutes

Utterly dystopian pic.twitter.com/4W5ZOssbEY

— Josh Self (@Josh_Self_) August 8, 2024

Did you see where some cop in the UK threatened to arrest Elon Musk for being against stabbing?

That’s a wild clip.

Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatens to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.

He does not rule out Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/AUJhEgTTtJ

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 9, 2024

I ask that as a question because I can’t remember if I wrote about it or not.

It’s been a busy few weeks.

I’ve been trying to solicit donations and I’ve started talking to people on the phone for $500 an hour. That might seem like a lot of money to some people, but in this context, it actually isn’t, because I work on this site all day basically for free. Anyway, with regards to that: if you sent money and I never talked to you, just pester me on the messenger. I will make sure everyone gets on the phone with me, I promise. I mean, everyone who pays. I didn’t really realize how many people would take me up on this offer.

Also, to be clear: you’re allowed to pay more than $500. That is more of a “suggested minimum.”

Anyway, I’m also cleaning up my midlife crisis, working on some side projects that I think are important (and also part of my midlife crisis). Plus, I was never able to remember stuff I wrote a week ago.

Oh, and yes, I know it’s Monday, and I’m supposed to post memes, but it’s already almost 2PM EST at time of writing, and I want to post it in the morning.

But yeah, to get back to the thing: calling for the extradition of Elon Musk for tweets, calling for his imprisonment – this is Covid-level lunacy.

It’s this kind of energy:

And, quite frankly, the world is currently feeling this kind of energy:

It’s a whole other vibe.