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    Sanzioni americane a ex funzionario UE, altri in un nuovo attacco all’Europa

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    1. Crossstoney on

      “ The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other people for trying to make American tech companies police political speech on their platforms.

      “For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on the X social media platform. “The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.”

      Rubio added that US officials “stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.”

      Besides Breton, the State Department also targeted activists and non-profits focused on digital hate speech and countering extremism. That includes Imran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the UK-based Global Disinformation Index’s Clare Melford, as well as Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of Germany’s HateAid, which flags far-right hate speech online. 

      The Global Disinformation Index in a statement called the sanctions “an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship,” accusing the Trump administration of using its power to “intimidate, censor, and silence voices they disagree with.” – Bloomberg

    2. dbplatypii on

      Look it’s reasonable to be concerned about the US right now, but I think we can all agree that Europe should not be embracing censorship, and it makes me SO happy to see some comeuppance for Thierry Breton!

    3. Stabile_Feldmaus on

      I would take this as a sign that I did something right. Breton should form a pro-EU party and use this as a kick-start for his campaign.

    5. -------7654321 on

      dark times. pure machiavellian move. accuse others of what you plan to do yourself. i hope our leaders in EU can see the writing on the wall.

    7. teekaz on

      (1) This is not USA, retiring from global stage. But USA looking to be the one & only bully on the global stage. (2) Well mr. Breton was EC member. EC is the executive branch if EU. Parliament is controlling EC, EU Council, etc. So for bad or worse, EU is an imperfect union, but it is not a individual who decides and imposes a common policy upon states and actors. (3) Mega donors for the MAGA movement are Meta, X, others. The technofeudalism (Varoufakis named it) is mad on DRA & related issues. (4) The social media platforms make money from bait, Earth is flat, man on moon never happened, vaccines are bad, plus other. A.s.f.

    9. LydonFeen on

      Europe should start by immediately classifying the Heritage Foundation as a criminal organization. And then ban Crapbook and Twatter.

    10. InitiativeHeavy1177 on

      That Trump guy certainly know how to make former friends make new alliances with other, more sane countries instead.

    11. driftingwood2018 on

      Meanwhile Con Artist Trump operates a golf club in Scotland to maximizes losses to not pay any tax.

    12. LiebesNektar on

      Declare the heritage foundation a foreign terrorist group!

    13. VorianFromDune on

      So now they are openly in war and persecuting our politician ? Maybe now, our politician would be incentivized enough to detach from the USA and really act to be more independent.

    14. Upbeat_Parking_7794 on

      I am getting a bit worried if EU doesn’t reciprocate somehow. I really hope something will be done, both to penalize this behavior and to protect people in the future from this abusive acts.

      Even if, in this case, it seems they are only Visa sanctions? Because honestly, I don’t think that is a big pain for most people. 🙂

    16. vinokess2 on

      That needs an answer. Transatlantic cocksuckers need to get ousted.

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