Foreigners who have assembled the “Digital Services Act” in Europe and have used it to push American platforms toward censorship now are angry that key players behind that agenda have been barred from America.
It was U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio who announced that five Europeans who have been integral to the DSA censorship are not welcome in America.
Those five include former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton, who has been called the “mastermind” behind the EU law that applies its own regulations to social media platforms, telling them what they can, and cannot, say.
Rubio cited the efforts by the five to force “American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose.”
The announcement triggered many people, including President Emmanuel Macron, who said France will “stand” against the “pressure” and will “protect Europeans.”
Breton himself said 90% of the European Parliament and all 27 members states in the EU voted for the DSA.
“Censorship isn’t where you think it is,” he scolded America.
WE’VE SANCTIONED: Thierry Breton, a mastermind of the Digital Services Act. In August 2024, while serving as European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Digital Services, he published a letter using the DSA to threaten @elonmusk ahead of his livestream interview with President…
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Weaponize DSA to Muzzle Elon Musk & American’s SpeechBombshell report from the Heritage Foundation reveals Hillary Clinton personally lobbied the EU to pressure Elon Musk into censoring Americans via the Digital Services Act.… pic.twitter.com/NwZFeLLRId
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BREAKING:
Marco Rubio announces EU and British officials complicit in fining Elon Musk and X are now officially BANNED from entering the United States
-Thierry Breton, behind Digital Services Act
-Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate
-Clare Melford, Global… pic.twitter.com/hRZ5ahxipE— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) December 24, 2025
The Washington Examiner reported Ursula von der Leyen, of the European Commission, blasted out, “Freedom of speech is the foundation of our strong and vibrant European democracy. We are proud of it. We will protect it.”
However, the DSA creates a pathway for governments in the EU to fine and otherwise punish platforms that carry statements with which they disagree.
Elon Musk’s X was fined $140 million just this month for refusing to “moderate,” or censor, statements as the DSA demanded.
That prompted Rubio to act.
“The Trump administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship,” he said.
Tuesday night, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard noted: “Every American’s right to free speech is enshrined in our US Constitution. Foreign nations seeking to impose their anti-freedom policies to censor American voices and force American platforms to regulate or silence our free speech is a gross violation of our sovereignty that must be answered with accountability.”
Every American’s right to free speech is enshrined in our US Constitution. Foreign nations seeking to impose their anti-freedom policies to censor American voices and force American platforms to regulate or silence our free speech is a gross violation of our sovereignty that must… https://t.co/mPBp6KMmBb
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) December 24, 2025
Other individuals named were Imran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Clare Melford of the Global Disinformation Index and Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of the German group called HateAid.