Reasoning that European restrictions on internet speech, such as the UK Online Safety Act and the EU Digital Services Act, cross a “red line” by regulating speech by Americans on American soil on American platforms, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers announced that five Europeans have been banned from coming to the United States.
The sanctions take the form of visa restrictions, not the financial sanctions used against dissident voices such as Jacques Baud.
Rogers announces the rogue’s gallery of sanctioned individuals:
Thierry Breton, Ursula von der Leyden’s close ally, the former European Commissioner who never saw a regulation he didn’t support, served as “a mastermind of the Digital Services Act” and had threatened Musk about potential legal problems for his social media company if he interviewed candidate Trump.
Imran Ahmed, who runs the Center for Countering Digital Hate, from which documents were leaked indicating the that organization sought to “kill Musk’s Twitter” and “trigger EU and UK regulatory action.”
