Prudish about affairs with spies? Or about affairs with people who, if they break off the relationship could lose their jobs (or if they continue it they could get promoted)?

These aren't just affairs.

Also, fraud remains to be seen, and shopping chips to China sure seems like questionable judgement.

I think you are too narrowly focused.

Yah, the UK has an odd practice of ignoring sexual abuse, especially with regards to men in power and young women or children

Americans are prudish, but not such that he would lose his job over an affair. A few Americans would boycott his company - but not enough to matter. There will be general disapproval, but that is as far as it will go.

However he will lose is job over an affair with someone that he has any form of business relationship with. He can have an affair with a nurse in the local hospital of the waitress of a local cafe and we will ignore it. However the girls he had an affair with are off-limits, and should be for any culture for reasons that we think should be obvious.

This isn't about affairs. It's about knowingly violating export controls and misleading investors

absolutely not true.

he resigned because there's some proof that he knew that nvidia was selling cards/chips to china -- the affair only made that extremely public.

Seems like a narrow-minded take.

> Us Brits, we'd talk about it, he's get a slap on the wrist but wouldn't be sacked.

Several BP executives resigned in a sex scandal just this year

https://news.sky.com/story/bp-chairman-removed-from-role-aft...

You're wrong. Having sex with your employees is not just an American faux pas. Hopefully you're not a leader of a company.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/lululemon-ceo-laurent-potdev...

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/11/bp-managers-given-ulti...

in italy you'd get a promotion if you are married and manage to show you have been with multiple lovers without getting caught

Americans really don't care that much either. It's drama, but no one was shocked and appalled to the point of calling for his resignation.

Now cheating on your wife with a FOREIGN SPY, yea that's a big deal no matter what the country.

The French would not blink with an eye about a spy spying on the top tech company of the country? The French intelligence would probably got her killed.

Considering the antics that Elon gets up to, there seems to be a double standard.

> American thing that the CEO can basically do anything

American CEO would get meetoed. Any sort of sex (even consensual) is illegal, if you have no way to prove it! Lets way a few weeks...