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Yesterday for the first time the US announced sanctions against European officials associated with the EU’s Digital Services Act and UK’s Online Safety Act, and specifically for their overreach in attempting to censor Americans extraterritorially on US soil.

These censorial attempts were made via a dense web of NGOs which collaborated with various US institutions, including the Biden administration, in “flagging” American content as well as creating ‘black lists’ of American “offenders” earmarked for deplatformization and other forms of illegal free speech suppression.

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"US ditching EU baggage while they focus on imperialism of Latin America to steal enough resources to counter china in 2035"

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

i, for one, am glad the us is so keen on alienating their partners like this. fuck them.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hope it develops into a full split. Chances though Europe will crawl back if the "genocide-lite" party wins.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago

So the country whose leader said six Congresspeople should be hung for treason because they dared say that people have a right and duty to refuse unlawful orders is now pretending to be the world leader in free speech?

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago

Vasal continent or not, that is the question.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Social media does not equal free speech, and having free speech does not mean that X has to be allowed. Ban X in Europe.

[–] Jimbel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That is the way. X and other social media is just the propaganda tool of these tech billionaires. Just look at what content they censore. Unfortunately their tools function really good for their purpose.