Following the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement in a speech last week that social media companies had not done enough to police speech on their platforms and that actual British police would be monitoring speech online, X owner Elon Musk made reference on Tuesday that the U.K. is sliding into an Orwellian society.

“Britain is turning into the Soviet Union,” Peter Imanuelsen wrote Tuesday.

“Seriously,” Musk replied.

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