US EditionUS visa policy targets foreign nationals who 'censor' Americans -State Dept.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Government declared it will deny visas to foreign officials who suppress Americans' social media content while on U.S. Soil.
- This policy follows increased visa revocations under Rubio, especially targeting students who protested Israel's Gaza offensive, and builds on complaints about censorship overseas, including from Brazil and Europe.
- A top justice in Brazil's highest court has clashed with Elon Musk's platform X over issues related to misinformation, resulting in temporary platform suspensions within Brazil, while the US administration has criticized similar hate speech regulations imposed by Germany and the UK.
- Rubio condemned the practice of foreign authorities pursuing or intimidating U.S. Citizens with arrest warrants over their social media activity and rejected demands for American tech companies to implement censorship rules that exceed the officials’ legal reach.
- The new restrictions reinforce a confrontational U.S. Stance on free speech, reflecting concerns over sovereignty and censorship that may affect foreign relations and escalate scrutiny of social media regulation globally.
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Tech Regulation: USA Threatens Entry Bans
In the dispute over the regulation of Internet giants, the US threatens with entry bans. Foreigners censored Americans would be subject to visa bans, announced Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He suggested that this could also affect employees of foreign governments who would oversee US tech companies. Rubio did not mention any concrete cases of censorship. However, US tech corporations and the US government have accused European states of censor…
Rubio announces visa restrictions for foreigners who exert censorship
The US government is taking action to protect free speech by introducing a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign officials who engage in censorship of protected expression, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday.
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The BlazeRubio wages war on foreign free-speech tyrants with visa ban
President Donald Trump's State Department is leveraging the nation's visa program to protect Americans from foreign speech censors, marking a monumental shift for free expression.Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the department would no longer grant visas for foreign nationals pushing to censor American speech.'America has the world's strongest free-speech protections, but for years other countries have undermined those pro…
US to deny visas to foreign officials censoring US social media platforms
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has said that not only will the Secretary of State deny visas to officials of foreign states who've censored American social media platforms, but to their "immediate family members" as well! Public has more. Since taking office, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has taken a series of actions to push back against growing foreign government demands to censor American citizens and American technology companies…
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