{"id":21325,"date":"2025-12-24T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/former-eu-commissioner-and-activists-barred-from-us-in-attack-on-european-tech-regulators\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:37:59","slug":"former-eu-commissioner-and-activists-barred-from-us-in-attack-on-european-tech-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/former-eu-commissioner-and-activists-barred-from-us-in-attack-on-european-tech-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans \u2013 who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton \u2013 have led \u201corganized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/24\/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0716ef703053cab4a865adbac966c8452854f88d\/377_0_5198_4160\/master\/5198.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b670f8a37022720364c1d6f7f7e27783\" title=\"Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators\" \/>State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nSecretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans \u2013 who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton \u2013 have led \u201corganized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/former-eu-commissioner-and-activists-barred-from-us-in-attack-on-european-tech-regulators\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}