UK riots: No10 slaps down Elon Musk for 'civil war is inevitable' post
UK riots: No10 slaps down Elon Musk for 'civil war is inevitable' post
Boss of social media giant X told by Downing Street ‘there is no justification for comments like that’
Fat billionaire boy babies calling for ‘ciViL wAr’ from the comfort of their phones at the behest of Putin and Rupert Murdoch.
You first Elon, you son of a slaver fat boy.
27The thing I hate about this is trying to understand what the better option is. At this point I'd be happy to see twitter banned in this country - we all know it's full of hateful and violent rhetoric - but then you run the risk of all the assholes in that particular square getting out and further infecting other sites which aren't as vitriolic.
How do you go about conquering shit like this?
8Eye watering fines for the company (say 25% of global turnover) and the ceo's of said companies should be held personally liable and receive eye watering fines (25% of net worth). Would help plug the hole in the budget the Tories left too.
16I don't like the idea of banning things but xitter is on thin ice. Not much more a reasonable govt can do after a certain point.
In terms of actually resolving the underlying issues my opinion is that we need to fix stalled growth in the economy to address the tensions. It seems to me that the xenophobia is being fuelled by people feeling like the pie is getting smaller so more immigrants mean that their already small slice will get smaller. Mental health services and interventions need to get better too but that is also related to resources.
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The way that Musk is riling up and egging on these rioters on the world's biggest social media platform is really frightening and dangerous. The guy's in total control of the algorithms that control people's feeds - including the sorts of thugs and bigots turning out on these race riots.
I think we really are going to need a much more grown up national conversation about regulation of social media companies and the damage they're doing to our democracy.
There are also clearly some very profound community tensions which we're going to have to address on some fundamental level in the long-run through processes of deradicalisation, integration, education and community cohesion strategies. But that still seems like a discussion that's necessary to have but maybe after we've locked up these Neo-Nazis.
8The tension is largely inflated. It exists mostly because people like Tommy Robson and Nigel Farage claim that it does.
For example take the housing crisis, it would be a problem even if it weren't for immigrants, maybe they slightly increase the pressure but only marginally and only in certain areas, but the racists and the fascists have decided to ignore nuance and simply claim that immigrants are causing the housing crisis. Then they imply, do not outright say, that if there were no immigrants everyone would have a house, which of course is demonstrably untrue, but thicko idiots believe it.
5The tension is largely inflated. It exists mostly because people like Tommy Robson and Nigel Farage claim that it does.
I don't agree. They inflate tensions that pre-exist them, and I think if we keep pretending these issues don't exist, then this is only going to get worse.
Immigration is not the cause of the housing crisis, but it's also not possible to address the housing crisis without also reducing immigration because it's not possible to build housing for 700,000+ people each year. Yearly net migration of almost 1 million is not sustainable, so the number will need to come down substantially.
1There are still crime patterns, though
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