US to impose visa bans over foreign censorship of Americans online
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According to Reuters, State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that the United States would launch a visa ban on foreign officials involved in censoring Americans on social media.
The new policy targets those responsible for limiting free expression under US law, especially on digital platforms.
Although Rubio has not cited specific examples, tensions between US tech companies and some European governments have increased, which has rules for moderate content. The move indicates a strong Washington stance against which it is influenced by foreign officials.
Rubio emphasized that it was unacceptable for foreign officials to issue arrest warrants or threaten to issue posts in the United States, or pressurize US -tech firms to impose global content rules affecting US consumers.
This has identified a change in US foreign policy, which aims to protect online speech and counter international censorship efforts targeting Americans.
Rubio said some foreign officials have “censorship action against US -tech companies and US citizens and residents when they have no authority to do so.”
US social media companies, such as Facebook and Instagram’s parents, Meta, have said that the European Union’s content is equivalent to a moderate law, digital services act, censorship of their platform. In March, the US Federal Communication Commission’s appointed chairman warned that the EU’s Digital Services Act was banned from freedom of expression.
In January, Meta said it would end its US facts examination in favor of community notes on controversial lines, but the company would continue to investigate the facts somewhere, including Europe and Latin America.
European Union regulators have released preliminary results that Trump Elon Elon Musk’s platforms also rely on community notes, saying it has violated the moderate rules of block content.
European Union officials have defended the Digital Services Act, which aims to secure and improve the online environment by force tech giants to work more and more to deal with illegal content, including hate speech and children’s sexual abuse content.
A spokesman for the European Commission said that Commissioner Rubio is aware of the announcement, which seems to be “common.” The spokesman refused to make any further comment.
The European Union wants a trade agreement with Washington to threaten 50 % of the revenue on European imports of President Donald Trump. Rubio was announced just before a meeting with German Foreign Minister Johan Woodol in Washington.
Europe ‘a stronghold of digital censorship’
Trump’s officials have repeatedly lost European politics to condemn that they see right -wing politicians, including Romania, Germany and France, in which European authorities have been accused of accusing them of countering the integration.
In April, Rubio closed a State Department office that tried to counter foreign information, accused of censorship and wasted US taxpayers.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Rubio added, “Whether Latin America, Europe, or anywhere else, the days of inactive behavior for those working to harm Americans have ended.”
Rubio did not name specific countries or individuals that would be targeted.
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexander de Morris has confronted the X to comply with orders to abolish accounts accused of spreading false information. Trump’s media company, along with the video sharing platform Rimble, has also sued the judge for the removal of former Brazilian President Jerry Bollsaro’s removal of Alan Dos Santos accounts in the United States.
Rimble CEO Chris Pauluski welcomed the visa policy on Wednesday. He said in a statement, “As Rimble has experienced, these enemies of free speech from around the world try to reach the United States and end the first amendment.”
A government source told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the Brazilian government is fully awaiting understanding that the ban can be subjected to and what will be the scope.
The Trump administration has repeatedly called on European countries to censorship of content online.
Vice President JD Venus condemned the contents in Paris in February, calling it a “authoritarian censorship”.
Rubio has said that threats to free speech are attacks on shared values that are important for US European relations and said the matter is being raised in diplomacy with both the European Union and the UK.
EU members are visiting France and Ireland this week to suppress these governments on freedom of expression this week, the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
An electoral agency from the bureau’s senior adviser, Samuel Samson, accused the UK and Germany of censoring online speech, saying that the EU’s digital services Act was used to silence contradictory voices through moderation of and negative content. ” He also cited two UK abortion workers to jail.
“More than strengthening democratic principles, Europe has been attracted to digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom and many other attacks on democratic self -discipline,” Samson wrote.
