Trump Begins Sanctioning EU Officials For Attempting to Impose Communist/Sharia-Compliant Censorship on Americans

The EU believes it can sanction everyone in the world -- but may not be sanctioned themselves.

Their beliefs are gay and retarded.

Lenka White @white_lenka

17h

🇺🇸 🇪🇺 US sanctions Europe for censoring Americans.

EU's @ThierryBreton, behind the Digital Services Act, is sanctioned for threatening @elonmusk before his interview with President Trump.

"Before the interview, Breton ominously reminded Musk of @X
's legal obligations and ongoing "formal proceedings" for alleged noncompliance with "illegal content" and "disinformation" requirements under the DSA," Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers wrote.

Others on the sanctions list:

-Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate

-Clare Melford, Global Disinformation Index

-Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, HateAid

-Josephine Ballon, HateAid

Announcing the sanctions, Marco Rubio said:

Are we gonna live in a world where some American puts up a social media posts and then gets to some airport somewhere and is arrested? Um, we're also concerned about the impact that some of their policies are having on our social media platforms. As you recently saw, you know, X. Is facing this massive multimillion dollar fine that they're gonna have to pay, I guess, if they want to continue to operate. But I think more importantly, I think it, it, it, it touches on the broader question that was asked a little bit earlier. We all talk about how these alliances, in many cases, our alliances with our European partners are built on our, on our common principles are common values as much as anything else. These aren't just a geopolitical arrangement. It is an alliance with like-minded countries with whom we share values and principles. And one of those values and principles, we hope is freedom and the freedom of expression, and we're concerned that that is eroding.

I think we fought a war to vindicate the proposition that we should be free to make our own laws, instead of having laws imposed upon us without our consent by foreign tyrants. Yes, that rings a bell.

Chuck Ross wrote about this Censorship Mafia in November.

Of course, it's all a George Soros-funded operation against the American citizenry.

The left-wing philanthropy funded by George Soros, Open Society Foundations (OSF), bankrolls a British nonprofit that works to censor conservative news websites and social media companies, including through a plot to "kill" Elon Musk's X by pressuring advertisers and investors to boycott the company.

OSF gave $250,000 last year to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for "general support," according to the Soros charity's grant database. The CCDH, under the guise of stopping "the spread of online hate and disinformation," has pressured social media companies' investors and advertisers to censor supposed "disinformation" or other content it deems to be offensive.

The organization, founded by former Labour Party operative Imran Ahmed in 2018, has also pressured tech companies to pull advertisements from the conservative websites the Federalist and the Daily Wire over allegedly racist content.

The grant, which has not been reported, could resurrect a longstanding battle that Musk has waged with both the CCDH and Soros. Musk has accused Soros of "crimes against humanity" and funding groups involved in violent protests across the country this year. And he has called the CCDH a "criminal organization" and said he was "going after" the group's donors over its efforts to harm X's finances.

Last year, the CCDH quietly organized a campaign to "kill Musk's Twitter" by pressuring advertisers to cut ties with the company, according to memos published by Racket News. The CCDH, which the watchdog group Capital Research Center calls a "UK-based censorship advocacy group," met with 16 congressional offices to discuss Musk's lawsuit against the organization, and held "policy engagement" meetings with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). The nonprofit also lobbied American policymakers toward the creation of an "independent digital regulator," according to Racket News.

Christopher Landau
@DeputySecState

4h

I remember thinking last year that this was one of the most chilling letters I'd ever read. It treats freedom of speech as merely one factor to be weighed in the balance against "detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security." And the letter was targeted specifically at a conversation on this very platform between @elonmusk, an American, and @realDonaldTrump, also an American then running for the US Presidency. When the letter talks about "content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political--or societal--events around the world" in this context, it's talking about core political speech. More than any other document I've ever read, this letter bares the fangs of the global censorship-industrial complex and underscores that unelected bureaucrats in the EU are ready, willing, and able to use their regulatory reach to try to influence elections and nullify the First Amendment in the US. When I wrote earlier this month about the glaring inconsistency between US relations with the EU and NATO, this is exactly what I had in mind. If the sovereign nations of Europe allow the EU to attack fundamental freedoms in the US, those same nations cannot expect the US to defend fundamental freedoms in Europe.

posted by Ace at 01:20 PM

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