Gli Stati Uniti impongono sanzioni sui visti ai regolatori e agli attivisti europei, accusandoli di censura. L’Unione Europea definisce le misure un’ingerenza e difende il proprio diritto a regolamentare lo spazio digitale in modo indipendente
https://sfg.media/en/a/us-visa-sanctions-european-regulators-censorship/
di sergeyfomkin
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This is coming from a country that forced CBS to drop their 60 Minutes report on trump deporting people to prison camps in other countries because the story was unfavourable. The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding.
We don’t like you anymore. Simples.
One more reason not to go to western circus!
One more reason to just ban the companies that don’t follow EU rule.
Ah this must be that free speech the hicks keep shrieking about.
Eu should ban anyone related to those ultra conservative american organizations and anyone with maga bunch.
Good, I hope the distrust in American technology continues to grow so we can one day be independent from that fascist state.
why when i listen this kind of things coming from US I instantly think in russia? US is getting a kind of russia, they call it russification! In this case it wasn’t necessary an invasion, just pay some debt from trump and maybe having some videos of him doing some Pedo evil sht…
So I guess there’s a bunch of visa sanctions coming for China, Russia, the middle east and so forth where censorship is an actual thing.
Recip-fucking-rocate! These fuckers think they can push us around, and I’m sick of them being right about that. Just shove their own shit sandwich down their throats and see how they like the taste.
quit using Redit
**Good analysis by Arnaud Bertrand on X:**
*(I don’t know if admin here allows me to link to it but you can find it yourself)*
This is a huge escalation. For the first time ever the US started sanctioning former senior EU officials, namely former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.
If anyone doubted there was a Euro-US split going on, this is yet another hostile action by the US that makes it loud and clear.
The official reason is, as expected, completely Orwellian. They sanction Breton because of his involvement in the Digital Services Act (DSA), which they claim was “extraterritorial legislation” even though it was designed to regulate content on European soil, viewed by European users.
You can perfectly disagree with the DSA for plenty of reasons. But the fact is that it was policing content shown in Europe to Europeans (wherever the content may have come from).
What the Americans are doing here however – sanctioning former EU officials for drafting EU legislation in Europe aimed at Europeans – is textbook extraterritoriality. Hence the “Orwellian” nature of this move by the US: accusing others of precisely what you’re doing yourself.
Americans say this is all about “free speech”, a narrative which a frightening amount of people seem to believe. When the truth is the exact opposite: this move is about ensuring American tech platforms remain the unchallenged gatekeepers of Europe’s information space, free from any oversight by Europeans themselves.
And, case in point, the very fact that so many people believe this “free speech” narrative is proof in and of itself of just how effective these platforms are at shaping narratives.
For the record I’m not arguing in the least that the DSA was a good piece of legislation or that Thierry Breton is some sort of tragic hero here. What I am arguing in favor of, as I consistently do, is sovereignty. I heavily dislike the EU in its present form precisely because they systematically kowtow to the US at the expense of European interests.
That’s a logical error I see way too many people make: they hate the EU for the same reasons I do and then cheer hostile actions by the US because, hey, who doesn’t like to see an institution one hates under attack? But that’s completely incoherent: you can’t cheer the master punishing the servant if your complaint was the servitude in the first place….
Now it’ll be interesting to see how the EU responds. If one cares about European sovereignty, this is not a precedent that can go unanswered, otherwise it’s a very slippery slope: every time Europe passes legislation the US dislikes, the officials responsible can expect to be sanctioned.
If the EU doesn’t do anything to respond forcefully it’s an institutional message they send to all their rank and file: “don’t do anything to anger the Americans because we won’t have your back.”
Sadly, I wouldn’t hold my breath. The most we’re likely to get is a strongly worded statement, and even that would be surprising. Which is precisely the problem: those who despise the EU for bending the knee to Washington are probably about to watch them bend the knee once more. There’s nothing to applaud here.
throw stones in a glass house are we?
Europe. You must do the same to them.
I’m wondering, when the White House will sanction Margrethe Vestager, as she was enemy number one of the big tech companies, when she was Commissioner for Competition in the European Commission.
More and more fascism from a country that fell into that trap. And now everyone else has to suffer as well. Thats as unamerican as it gets btw.
speaking of censorship they are heavily censoring Epstein files because the US president is a paedophile.
Imposing sanctions *is* censorship.
They’re pressuring Canada as well- wanting to flood us with their everything. Elbows Up!
That will be the same US trying to close down TV channels…?