Visa ban for European critics of online harm is first shot in US free speech war
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#72CGK)
Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politicians
For Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech.
The action against five Europeans who are taking on harmful content and the platforms that host it has had an inevitable feel to it, given the increasingly vociferous reactions to the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA). Both pieces of legislation require social media firms to protect users or face the threat of sizeable fines. Indeed, Elon Musk's X has been fined 120m (105m) this month for breaching the DSA.
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