"On Tuesday night, Washington imposed sanctions on several European figures involved in content moderation on social media and the fight against hate speech on platforms like Elon Musk's X or Facebook. The U.S. State Department accuses those sanctioned including former European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton, responsible in the last term for the Digital Services Act of extraterritorial censorship of Americans. The individuals targeted are now barred from entering U.S. territory."
"With this unprecedented move, the Trump administration claims it is fighting the censorship-NGO ecosystem and the global censorship-industrial complex. For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The U.S. has warned it may broaden the sanctions to include more Europeans unless positions change."
Washington imposed sanctions on several European figures involved in social media content moderation and barred them from entering the United States. The U.S. State Department accuses those sanctioned, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton, of practicing extraterritorial censorship of Americans. The move is presented as an effort against a so-called censorship-NGO ecosystem and the global censorship-industrial complex. U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, assert that European actors coerced American platforms to punish U.S. viewpoints. The administration threatened to expand sanctions unless European positions change. The sanctioned list of five is led by Breton.
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