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"Musk slams UK as ‘real fascism’ over its 12,000 arrests for online posts
Elon Musk’s attention on the United Kingdom’s policing of online content is a likely response to the country’s threats to ban his social media platform X. The UK is threatening to ban the platform because Grok, the AI chatbot, is producing sexually explicit images of women and children at the request of users.
Elon Musk indirectly accused the United Kingdom of being ruled by fascists, pointing to the thousands of arrests made by the British government over online social media posts deemed 'indecent, obscene or menacing character.'
The X owner shared a post made by an anonymous account that included an unsourced chart showing the number of arrests based on social media posts per country. The United Kingdom led with 12,183 arrests reported, but the graphic did not include over what time period this information was collected. The account said this graphic shows 'what fascism looks like.'
'The UK arrests more people for social media posts than any other country on Earth,' the anonymous account wrote.
Musk concurred, writing this week that 'real fascism is arresting thousands of people for social media posts.'
In another post, Musk commented 'Wow' in response to Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, posting that the UK 'has now arrested more than 12,000 people for free speech online.'
The Polymarket tweet is based on information uncovered by freedom of information requests made by 'The Times' in April in determining the number of arrests made in England and Wales because of online posts found to be in violation of section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
Both of these acts make it illegal for a person to share or send content that is 'grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character' as well as 'threatening, or knowingly false.'
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Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that 'nothing is off the table' if the United Kingdom decides to go ahead with banning X in the UK.
State Department’s Sarah B. Rogers said UK’s threats to shut down X is about the government wanting 'the ability to curate a public square, to suppress political viewpoints it dislikes.'
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