US will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts | Trump administration

The United States said it will reject visas for foreign officials who prevent the social media sites of the Americans, such as Donald Trump Device management is a new battle for freedom of expression.

Marco Rubio – The Foreign Minister, who canceled controversial visas to activists who criticize Israel and discovered a social media examination of foreign students – said on Wednesday that he is acting against “stark control measures” abroad against American technology companies.

He did not publicly mention any official who will be deprived of a visa under the new policy. But last week, he suggested that he was planning penalties against the Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Alexander de Morris, who had Control x owner and Trump Ally Elon Musk On the alleged misinformation.

Trump administration He has criticized himself sharply in Germany and Britain to restrict what American governments demand for hatred and abusive speech.

Rubio said that the United States will begin to restrict visas to foreign citizens responsible for “protected expression control in the United States.”

“It is not acceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest orders on American citizens or the American population to social media participants on American platforms while they are physically on American soil,” Rubio said in a statement.

He said: “It is not acceptable for foreign officials to demand that American technology platforms adopt policies of baptism of global content or engage in oversight activity that exceeds their authority to the United States.”

“We will not tolerate the violations of American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine our basic right to freedom of expression.”

Rubio said he had canceled the US visas for thousands of people, to a large extent students who protested the Israeli attack in Gaza.

Among the most obvious cases were Rümeysa öztürkA Turkish doctorate student at the University of Tatst wrote an article as an opinion on Talib newspaper criticizing the school’s position in Gaza.

Masked clients arrested her on Massachusetts Street and took her away. The judge recently ordered her release.

Rubio on Tuesday Additional dates have been suspended For students who seek visas to the United States so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promotes new guidance on the augmented examination of the social media publications for applicants.

Social media organization has become a massive cry for many in the United States on the right since Trump was suspended from Twitter, now X and Facebook, on safety land after his supporters attacked the Capitol in the United States after his defeat in the 2020 elections to Joe Biden.

In Brazil, Trump’s supporters stormed the ally of Geor Bolsonaro, the presidential palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court in 2023 after Bolsonaro’s election loss, Morais said he was seeking to protect democracy through his judicial strength.

Mora X was temporarily banned across Brazil He even complied with his order to remove the accounts accused of publishing misleading information.

Recently, he ordered the comment of Rumble, a platform for sharing video that is popular with conservative voices and to the right of its refusal to ban the User -based user account in the United States, which was required to spread misleading information.

Germany – who met the Foreign Minister on Wednesday with Rubio – adheres to the hate speech and wrong information, saying that she learned a lesson from her Nazi past and would express extremists.

JD Vance in a letter in Munich in February Germany denounced the discrimination of the extreme right.

In an article on Tuesday, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to the social media regulations and said that the Europeans were following “a strategy similar to control, diabolical and bureaucratic weapons” as he witnessed against Trump and his supporters.

“What this reveals is that the global liberal project does not enable the prosperity of democracy,” wrote Samuel Samsun, the first adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Human Rights Office.

“Instead, it tramples democracy, and the Western heritage with it, in the name of a dissolved control layer that is afraid of its people.”