Posted on 04/18/2025 10:54:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
First Trump officials were trying to get Europe to accept chlorinated chickens and hormone-infused beef from the United States. Now, it seems they are trying to foist the toxicity of our social media platforms and a laissez-faire approach to harmful content onto Europe, as well.
Evidence suggests the Trump administration is targeting content moderation laws in the United Kingdom designed to curb hate speech and misinformation as a part of trade negotiations.
Last week, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged to Parliament that “a review of online safety rules [is] on the table in trade talks with the United States,” Politico EU reported. When asked about whether top tech firms might be powerful enough to be treated as independent nations, Starmer hedged and pivoted to points about “the appropriate way to tax digital services” and “how technology impacts with free speech.” (Below is a video of the exchange posted by a member of Parliament, Chi Onwurah.)
Starmer’s comments seem to suggest that U.K. laws against hate speech and disinformation have become a factor in trade negotiations with Trump, who is destabilizing the U.S. economy with a haphazard tariff war that has targeted American allies, such as the U.K.
Starmer’s comments also followed a recent report by The New York Times that said European Union officials have weighed enforcement of content moderation laws against Elon Musk and his social platform, X, against the risks of angering the Trump administration amid ongoing trade negotiations.
Trump’s administration has been known to rely on hateful rhetoric and disinformation, so its open criticism of European officials’ punishment of such speech in their countries hasn’t come as a surprise. Vice President JD Vance, for example, recently framed European laws targeting misinformation as an attack on free speech at a conference in Munich.
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He has NO idea what he's up against with Trump!
Socialism is the softsell to complete totalitarianism.
Reads like North Korean propaganda
Make 1984 fiction again.
Amen!
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Ja’han Jones doesn’t sound very English, he sounds like a third world communist jackass.
MSNBC, by Resident Communist, Ja'han Jones who has an "everything I spew smells like BS" approach to the World.
U prime minister says online content moderation could be on the table as part of trade talks?
More like they ARE in the table and he recognizes that reality. If he arrests people for political speech, he doesn’t get a trade deal. He didn’t get a day about what’s on the table or not.
“Trump’s administration has been known to rely on hateful rhetoric and disinformation, so its open criticism of European officials’ punishment of such speech in their countries hasn’t come as a surprise. Vice President JD Vance, for example, recently framed European laws targeting misinformation as an attack on free speech at a conference in Munich.”
GTH, MSNBC.
I think the PM got it wrong.
As with left wing Canada, the left wing UK government is the Trump objektive. Canada and the UK will get new Governments and new PM’s
Ultimately, Canada and the UK will join America and Australia and New Zealand in a new trade consortium to deal with China and Europe
Hear Hear !
Do something for Big Tech or Israel and get a break.
Way to go, Ja’han Jones. Let’s fight for “truth,” “justice,” and the Socialist way.
No. It won’t.
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