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A transatlantic rupture is widening, this time not over war or trade, but over speech, power, and

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European leaders are openly condemning the United States after Washington imposed visa bans on five prominent European figures linked to efforts to regulate American tech giants.

Among those targeted, Thierry Breton, former EU Commissioner and one of the chief architects of Europe's Digital Services Act.

Alongside him, four leading anti disinformation campaigners from Germany and the United Kingdom.

The response from Europe has been furious.

French President Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of coercion and intimidation, warning the move is an attempt to undermine European digital sovereignty.

Germany, Spain, the UK and senior EU officials have joined the condemnation, with Brussels signaling it is prepared to respond swiftly and decisively.

At the heart of the dispute is the Digital Services Act, a landmark EU law designed to force major online platforms to tackle hate speech, illegal content and election manipulation.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims Europe is engaging in extraterritorial censorship, accusing EU regulators of pressuring American platforms to suppress viewpoints they oppose.

The Trump administration says it will no longer tolerate what it calls attacks on American free expression.

Macron insists the rules were adopted democratically, apply only within Europe, and

ensure that what is illegal offline is also illegal online.

These rules, he says, will not be dictated from outside Europe.

Thierry Breton, now barred from entering the us, calls the move a witch hunt, reminding Washington that the law was backed by 90% of the European Parliament and all 27 EU member states.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has weighed in, vowing to protect freedom of speech and Europe's regulatory autonomy.

Just weeks ago, Elon Musk's X platform was fined €120 million under the DSA for.

Now the confrontation is escalating beyond fines into visas, diplomacy and open threats of retaliation.

Do you have any reaction on the fine that was imposed to expire the European for 1 to X to the platform X?

European Union or UK European Commission?

Elon has not called me to ask for help on that one, but no, it's a tough thing.

I don't see, you know how they can do that.

Look, Europe has to be very careful, doing a lot of things.

They're going in some very bad directions.

Critics across Europe warn this is no longer just about tech regulation.

They say it reflects a deeper cultural and political clash between the Trump administration and Europe over democracy, rule of law, and.

And who sets the rules in the digital age.

Some European lawmakers are going even further, accusing Washington of confronting democracies while accommodating authoritarian powers.

As one French MEP put it, we are not a colony of the United States.

With tensions already high over Ukraine, trade and global power, this latest dispute opens a new front, one fought not with weapons, but

And the message from Europe is unmistakable.

A major geopolitical storm is brewing across the Atlantic.

The Donald Trump administration has imposed visa bans on Fox 5 prominent Europeans, accusing them of pressuring American tech companies to censor US Voices.

Washington calls it a fight for free speech.

And at the heart of this clash is one explosive question.

secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement public public on X, issuing a sharp warning to Europe.

For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose.

Rubio said the Trump administration will no longer tolerate what it calls extraterritorial censorship, and

confirmed the State Department is now barring what he described as leading figures of the global censorship industrial complex.

The five Europeans hit with US Visa bans are Thierry Breton, former EU commissioner who oversaw tech regulation Imran Ahmed C, CEO of the center for Countering Digital Hate Josephine Bolan and Anna Lena von Hodenberg, both leaders of German NGO Hate Aid, and

Claire Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index.

Washington says these figures pushed foreign censorship campaigns against Americans and US Tech firms, triggering what Rubio calls serious foreign policy consequences.