US bars former EU commissioner, activists over alleged censorship • FRANCE 24 English
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation campaigners it says were involved in censoring US social media platforms. Trump officials have ordered US diplomats to build opposition to the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which is intended to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation, but which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies. Story by Gabrielle Nadler.
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39 comments
The American Republican party is the single greatest threat to democracy in 2025.
From a US Citizen: thank you for helping us. I firmly believe we didn’t vote for him. 💜
European leaders are jokes.
Those poltical bureaucrats that were pointed out for the native populations to see who the WEF puppets are.
"Right wing". They never say "left-wing."
Well, it's a good start. If they want to fine American companies fro free speech and mislabel it "hate speech" then game on.
Censorship by propagandists will not be tolerated. We must have free speech.
The EU threatened Elon Musk with a $120 million fine for not censoring X for them in Europe …. This is why Trump did this .
You can all live on delusion if you want to … That's your choice …. Fact is The EU wants you to only hear what they tell you .
Europe has broken fellowship with America .
Part of the alliance wss based on the principle of free speech ..
Europe is in the process of violating that pact .
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Free Enoch Burke. The EU Tyranny must fall. And it will.
Well done. That 🤡 "Frenchman", a perpetually angry queen, is a banana republic dictator—that's what they've turned the EU into, another Macronland.
Good….We don't need your dictatorship & censorship EU or your propaganda France24
Eu cant retaliate with a begging bowl
EU is a weak and poorly ran countries. All talk. Can't even give russia money away with cracking and looking weak
All this while Trump is trying to shut down any criticism of his ongoing efforts to turn the US into a dictatorship.
Place the blame where it belongs – the Trump administration…
Bro, EU sanction Geopolitical, activists and journalists🙄.
That's dictatorship and isn't democracy.
Trump is only for freedom of speech that suits him!
Down down down with the EU❤🎉 long live a Free Europa
What u gonna do abt it europe 😂
All europe has to do is buy out mark zuckerbergs portion of the european market and it'll be rebranded facebook-euro
He can claim royalties like seinfeld lives off.
Or de house him in europe.
Nintendo with the original mario brothers 1 was legally region lockable
So the laws and tools exist since 1987 for
Region locks and restrictions even on or for facebook.
So who regulates the ones that decide which is hate speech and which isn't? This is the problem with branding speech as hate, racist, misogynistic or anything else. If you don't like what you're listening to or reading, switch the channel or turn it off. People have enough common sense themselves to know what hate speech is. We don't need government to tell us that
It’s impressive how efficiently Europe has updated its historical approach to managing thought; same instincts, much better marketing.
Didn’t the UK classify Cultural Nationalism as terroristic. I mean they’re clearly tryna deplatform conservatives. So good on Trump.
EU is destroying itself. EU Politicians are the enemy not Russia.
Just ban US tech firms from Europe until they comply with the law. Basic economics says European tech firms will replace their monopoly grip on Europe because of supply and demand.
About time, the EU is just tge Soviet union lite…..
The EU has stripped their citizens of Free Speech. Now they are trying to strip Americans of Free Speech. These are not out allies and they need to be stopped!
usa needs to leave nato and un
Watching European leaders is like reading Orwell’s Animal Farm pigs coerce the other animals into giving up the current system for a new utopia . One that is worse anything they could possibly imagine with unremovable leaders.
Control of information and control speech and information is a tool of government control of its people. The European Union is not our allies. There actions and interference with our countries elections show they are not practicing what they preach.
The European dictatorship that doesn't want free speech must fall
Isolate our allies and empower our enemies. Truly, Making America Great
Please UK do not rejoin the EU. The EU is a cancer
European regimes / media forced to taste their own medicine (so called free speech).
Why doesn't the EU just ban all American social media companies? They could start their own like china and Russia does.
I guess they are confusing free speech with idolatry
Thank g-d for Trump 💪🇺🇸
The facts remain, the EU tried to censor the X platform. The examples included comments over transgenderism, open boarders, and the uncomfortable Ukraine reality that’s it’s a vassal state of the highest bidder.
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