Elon Musk lashed out again on X asking “Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?” and sharing a video purporting to show a man getting arrested for making “offensive” Facebook comments.
Sharing the video, Musk wrote: “Arrested for making comments on Facebook! Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?”
He then asked for X users to comment on the video’s accuracy via community notes. The Express was unable to verify the authenticity of the video and it is unknown when it was taken.
In the video, a female officer says: “The time is twenty-to-three, 14.40. I’m arresting you for improper use of the electronic communications network… Section 127 of the Communications Act, ok?”
The man responds: “So I’m actually being arrested? … Oh a Facebook crime is it?”
Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it an offence to send a message that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character over a public electronic communications network.
Meanwhile, Keir Starmer has launched into a war of words with the tech billionaire after the X and Tesla owner weighed in on the riots seen in Britain over the past week.
Yesterday Mr Musk responded to a video of fireworks being launched by far-right protestors, captioned by the original poster as “total madness”.
Responding to an account that described the riots as “the effects of mass migration and open borders”, Mr Musk claimed: “Civil war is inevitable.”
Amid widespread criticism of what many users of his platform said was a highly irresponsible comment, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has now also condemned Mr Musk’s intervention.
Speaking to journalists this lunchtime, Sir Keir’s official spokesman said there is “no justification” for such comments.
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