US Sanctions EU Official Over 'Policing Speech,' Forgets Own Censorship
The Trump administration, according to Bloomberg, sanctioned former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton for daring to suggest that American tech giants might need to 'police political speech' on their platforms. This move, framed as defending free speech, conveniently glosses over Washington's own extensive history of pressuring social media companies to surveil and censor, particularly voices critical
of US foreign policy. (Remember the 'Twitter Files'?) One might wonder if 'policing speech' is only a problem when it's not Washington doing the dictating, especially when the EU sought to rein in disinformation – a concern the US itself claims to share. This isn't about free speech; it appears to be about who gets to control the narrative, and Uncle Sam prefers to be the only puppet master. How
many countries get sanctioned for doing exactly what the US has tried to coerce its own tech sector into?