{"id":17455,"date":"2025-01-25T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/elon-musks-beef-with-britain-isnt-only-about-politics-its-about-tech-regulation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:37:41","slug":"elon-musks-beef-with-britain-isnt-only-about-politics-its-about-tech-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/elon-musks-beef-with-britain-isnt-only-about-politics-its-about-tech-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s beef with Britain isn\u2019t (only) about politics. It\u2019s about tech regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts suspect X owner\u2019s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law<\/p>\n<p>For those wondering why Elon Musk, the tycoon newly infamous for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-elon-musk-salute\">his stiff-arm salutes<\/a>, developed a sudden ferocious interest in the UK this month, the answer may lie in an arcane piece of online media legislation working its way gradually towards fruition.<\/p>\n<p>In a ferocious flurry of tweets of his X platform this month, days before formally joining the Trump administration, the world\u2019s richest man portrayed Britain as a dystopian \u201cpolice state\u201d run by a \u201ctyrannical government\u201d in which young working-class women are routinely kidnapped off the streets by gangs of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/25\/elon-musk-uk-politics-tech-online-safety-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0a149efd7f893a8c947f0bcb3fc7362680150479\/0_127_5639_3384\/master\/5639.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fd220b6d1b57b0555d5ce1ef013f9d19\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s beef with Britain isn\u2019t (only) about politics. It\u2019s about tech regulation\" \/>Experts suspect X owner\u2019s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law<br \/>\nFor those wondering why Elon Musk, the tycoon newly infamous for his stiff-arm salutes, developed a sudden ferocious interest in the UK this month, the answer may lie in an arcane piece of online media legislation working its way gradually towards fruition.<br \/>\nIn a ferocious flurry of tweets of his X platform this month, days before formally joining the Trump administration, the world\u2019s richest man portrayed Britain as a dystopian \u201cpolice state\u201d run by a \u201ctyrannical government\u201d in which young working-class women are routinely kidnapped off the streets by gangs of immigrants. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts suspect X owner\u2019s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law For those wondering why Elon Musk, the tycoon newly infamous for his stiff-arm salutes, developed a sudden ferocious interest in the UK this month, the answer may lie in an arcane piece of online &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/elon-musks-beef-with-britain-isnt-only-about-politics-its-about-tech-regulation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s beef with Britain isn\u2019t (only) about politics. It\u2019s about tech regulation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}