cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52140550
The state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans – who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton – have led “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”
In recent months, 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 US tech companies.
Late on Tuesday night, Breton posted on social media: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?”
The current American viewpoint is corporate facism and technofeudulism. We got here by allowing corporations to indiscriminately donate to politicians who protect their interest through PACs, defunding education so the electorate is dumb enough to fall for fascist propoganda transmitted to them through monopolized media which makes the narrative whatever the fuck they want it to be. If I was banned from the USA like that, under the current conditions, I’d be fucking proud.
Keep it up Europe. I’m doing whatever I can to hurt this fascist bullshit. I pulled my money out of domestic investments and started investing in foreign markets. I avoid spending money at companies that openly support political candidates on the right and donate to right wing pacs. I protest, I vote. There are lots of us fighting on the inside here. Please keep up the pressure from the outside.