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Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ after Spain announces sweeping social media crackdown
Fox News ^ | February 3, 2026 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 02/03/2026 5:27:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced sweeping plans at the World Government Summit in Dubai to hold social media executives criminally liable and curb platform algorithms, prompting a sharp and profane response from X owner Elon Musk.

Sánchez laid out five measures in a speech, with implementation set to begin next week.

"Dirty Sánchez is a tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain," Musk wrote on X, using an explicit insult and a poop emoji.

Sánchez framed the proposals by describing social media as a lawless digital ecosystem, arguing that platforms have become a "failed state" where disinformation, hate speech and criminal activity flourish without accountability.

Sánchez also appeared to take aim at Musk directly, criticizing the X owner for amplifying what he described as false claims about Spain’s immigration policy and allowing harmful content to spread on the platform.

"Just last week, the owner of X, a migrant himself, used his personal account to amplify disinformation about the sovereign decision by my government, the regularization of 500,000 migrants that live, work and contribute to the success of our country," Sánchez said.

Under the plan, Spain would first amend its laws to hold platform executives criminally liable for failing to remove illegal or hateful content, exposing executives to potential prosecution.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: collapse; dirtysanchez; dissent; europe; freespeech; potkettlekettlepot; remigration; replacement; spain; whompwhomp

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1 posted on 02/03/2026 5:27:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

” false claims about Spain’s immigration policy and allowing harmful content to spread on the platform.”

With a government that just announced the goal to replace native Spaniards with turds?


2 posted on 02/03/2026 5:32:20 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sanchez recognized the State of Palestine up front alongside Norway and Ireland before France and other nations.

All of them are in Benjamin Netanyahu’s crosshairs and Elon Musk is friends with Bibi.

This needs to be accepted as information not so much accusation what control do any of us have over what the big players in the “Epstein League” are up to.


3 posted on 02/03/2026 5:32:52 PM PST by Nextrush ( 'FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS" REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So just deny access to X from Spain.

L


4 posted on 02/03/2026 5:38:05 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m pretty sure s*** like this was the reason that a lot of people’s ancestors-mine included-got on ships sailing from Spain to the new world, about 450 years ago...


5 posted on 02/03/2026 5:40:01 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The algorithms suck on X. My for you is full of liberals.


6 posted on 02/03/2026 5:40:39 PM PST by roving
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To: Texan5

I’m pretty sure you are right.


7 posted on 02/03/2026 5:41:37 PM PST by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dirty Sanchez... LOL


8 posted on 02/03/2026 5:42:11 PM PST by HenpeckedCon
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To: MinorityRepublican

Obama is in charge of coke snorting EU leaders.
Obama hates Musk…..and the money Musk donates too MAGA.
Macron raided Musk’s Paris office:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/elon-musk-x-office-raid-paris-prosecutors-b2912886.html


9 posted on 02/03/2026 5:44:07 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican

Curbing “hate and disinformation” online and the next step is in public or in your home.


10 posted on 02/03/2026 5:54:46 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t know why Musk feels that X can go beyond the borders of the USA.

It has been the dream of tyrants and the Elite to create a one-world Internet. The reasons are now obvious.


11 posted on 02/03/2026 5:55:43 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ban porn = yes
Ban criticizing your government = no


12 posted on 02/03/2026 6:07:28 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Nextrush

After the 2004 Train bombings three days before a national election, Spain utterly folded and went full socialist/globalist.

Tragic.


13 posted on 02/03/2026 6:11:33 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
X is important for free speech.

We didn't have much of it in 2020 and obviously Biden took advantage of it.

14 posted on 02/03/2026 6:26:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

He should just ban any connection to X from Spain. No in and no out. Just a blank page until freedom returns.


15 posted on 02/03/2026 6:46:35 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Free Speech is obviously an American thing.

The world’s “leaders” have been hoping that the Internet would help them to enslave mankind.


16 posted on 02/03/2026 6:58:15 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
If the EU decides to ban X then obviously we should raise their tariffs if they want to have access to our market.

Right now, it's 30% with China. But we're giving the EU a good deal at 15%. Maybe we should raise it to 30%.

17 posted on 02/03/2026 7:42:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Another Hispanic fascist?

Is it in the DNA?


18 posted on 02/03/2026 8:06:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Lurker

Exactly.

Unceremoniously disconnect Spain, France, probably the UK and any other country that criminalizes free speech.


19 posted on 02/03/2026 8:35:07 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (No American Blood for censorious socialist islamophiles!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Bombard the country with free starlink connection hardware.


20 posted on 02/03/2026 8:41:28 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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