{"id":21327,"date":"2025-12-24T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/visa-ban-for-european-critics-of-online-harm-is-first-shot-in-us-free-speech-war\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:37:37","slug":"visa-ban-for-european-critics-of-online-harm-is-first-shot-in-us-free-speech-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/visa-ban-for-european-critics-of-online-harm-is-first-shot-in-us-free-speech-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa ban for European critics of online harm is first shot in US free speech war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politicians<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/dec\/24\/free-speech-tech-us-relations-ed-davey-keir-starmer-uk-politics-live-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The action against five Europeans who are taking on harmful content and the platforms that host it has had an inevitable feel to it, given the increasingly vociferous reactions to the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK\u2019s Online Safety Act (OSA). Both pieces of legislation require social media firms to protect users or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/mar\/17\/social-media-companies-fines-uk-illegal-content-online-safety-act\">face the threat of sizeable fines<\/a>. Indeed, Elon Musk\u2019s X has been fined \u20ac120m (\u00a3105m) this month for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/05\/elon-musk-x-fined-eu-first-clash-under-new-digital-laws\">breaching the DSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/24\/visa-ban-for-european-critics-of-online-harm-is-first-shot-in-us-free-speech-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/146ea600371c47e796f9b3708122efd144613cab\/917_0_4583_3667\/master\/4583.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=468e550d7fc36554d5e55f05582ca4dd\" title=\"Visa ban for European critics of online harm is first shot in US free speech war\" \/>Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politicians<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nFor Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech.<br \/>\nThe action against five Europeans who are taking on harmful content and the platforms that host it has had an inevitable feel to it, given the increasingly vociferous reactions to the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK\u2019s Online Safety Act (OSA). Both pieces of legislation require social media firms to protect users or face the threat of sizeable fines. Indeed, Elon Musk\u2019s X has been fined \u20ac120m (\u00a3105m) this month for breaching the DSA. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politicians UK politics live \u2013 latest updates For Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech. The action against five Europeans &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/visa-ban-for-european-critics-of-online-harm-is-first-shot-in-us-free-speech-war\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visa ban for European critics of online harm is first shot in US free speech war<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21328,"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\/21327"}],"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=21327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}