What I will say to the PM is that if he doesn’t want to be compared to tyrants, he should probably stop acting like one. Refraining from banning a major social-media platform, because he doesn’t like who owns it or what is being said on it, would be a very good place to start.
If you think this is just about a rogue AI making creepy, scantily clad images, then I have a disturbing calendar of the prime minister to sell you. If it were, why doesn’t the government go after Grok specifically, rather than X? Indeed, this is what Indonesia and Malaysia have just done, temporarily suspending Grok – but leaving X itself up and running – until such time as Musk gets his act together. Who’d have thought supposedly liberal Britain would be taking lessons in proportion from these two socially conservative, majority-Muslim nations?

Ayatollah Starmer’s X crackdown is an insult to brave Iranians
We must call out this crusade against Elon Musk for the authoritarian wheeze that it is.