{"id":25806,"date":"2026-01-10T22:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25806"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:46:04","slug":"musk-accuses-uk-of-drive-to-suppress-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25806","title":{"rendered":"Musk accuses UK of drive to \u2018suppress free speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tech billionaire has been feuding with British officials for months, accusing them of censorship and arrests over tweets<\/p>\n<p>            Elon Musk has accused the UK government of suppressing free speech after officials threatened to ban Grok, his X platform\u2019s AI chatbot, over reports that it generates non-consensual erotic deepfake images of women and children.<br \/>\nBritish communications watchdog Ofcom has said that it is investigating Grok\u2019s ability to generate sexualized images derived from photos of real people.<br \/>\nUK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has said she would back Ofcom if it blocks nationwide access to the chatbot.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, one X user pointed out that Google\u2019s Gemini and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT will also generate bikini deepfakes of people when prompted, posting two bikini snaps of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from the two chatbots.<br \/>\n\u201cThey just want to suppress free speech,\u201d Elon Musk replied.<\/p>\n<p>            They just want to suppress free speech https:\/\/t.co\/IuEnsi1QSX\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 10, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>Just a day earlier, X announced that Grok\u2019s image generation and editing tools had been limited to paying subscribers. Musk also warned that anyone using the platform to create illegal content would face the same legal consequences as if they had uploaded it directly.<\/p>\n<p>            READ MORE: EU confronts X over Grok chatbot\u2019s pedophilic content<\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire has long accused Starmer of suppressing free speech and arresting people over social media posts, amid an extensive government crackdown after anti-immigration riots shook the UK last year.<\/p>\n<p>        Read more<\/p>\n<p>            CIA-linked firms bemoan Western Europe\u2019s surveillance push<\/p>\n<p>Several bouts of unrest followed a mass stabbing in Southport by the son of two immigrants, and again after the sexual assault of a young girl by a migrant.<br \/>\nPrior to that, Musk and Starmer has already engaged in a months-long feud after the tech billionaire accused the UK prime minister of mishandling the grooming gang scandal, in which groups of mostly Pakistani men systematically raped thousands of vulnerable young British girls over two decades. In June, Starmer ordered a new inquiry into the grooming gangs following mounting pressure after the scandal\u2019s return to the spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech billionaire has been feuding with British officials for months, accusing them of censorship and arrests over tweets Elon Musk has accused the UK government of suppressing free speech&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}