Trump Admin Sanctions Europeans Engaged in Censorship: Unwelcome on American Soil'

"Today, the United States issued SANCTIONS reinforcing the red line' I invoked on @GBNEWS. Namely: extraterritorial censorship of Americans. Today's sanctions target the censorship-NGO ecosystem. These sanctions are visa-related. We aren't invoking severe Magnitsky-style financial measures, but our message is clear: if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you're unwelcome on American soil. Our targets are foreign, but you'll notice that some collaborated with U.S. bureaucrats on Murthy-style speech suppression. Don't worry: we're pursuing transparency, truth, and reconciliation at the @StateDept, too."

"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, announced Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a statement. Today, @StateDept will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course."

The United States announced visa-related sanctions against several British and European figures and organizations accused of extraterritorial censorship of Americans. The measures aim to bar leading figures of the 'global censorship-industrial complex' from entering the United States and may expand if others persist. The sanctions target the censorship-NGO ecosystem while explicitly avoiding Magnitsky-style financial penalties. Officials cited specific targets, including a European Commission official associated with the Digital Services Act. The actions also alleged collaboration between some foreign actors and U.S. bureaucrats on so-called Murthy-style speech suppression and framed the policy as defending American speech.

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