Posted on 12/23/2025 7:18:45 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose. These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states—in each case targeting American speakers and American companies. As such, I have determined that their entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.
Based on these determinations, the Department has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on agents of the global censorship-industrial complex who, as a result, will be generally barred from entering the United States. Further, based on the foreign policy determination, the Department of Homeland Security can initiate removal proceedings against certain individuals pursuant to INA section 237(a)(4)(C), which renders such individuals deportable.
President Trump has been clear that his America First foreign policy rejects violations of American sovereignty. Extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech is no exception. The State Department stands ready and willing to expand today’s list if other foreign actors do not reverse course.
These actions are pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which renders inadmissible any alien whose entry into the Unites States the Secretary of State determines “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” Certain family members may also be covered by these restrictions. In addition, Section 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act renders an alien deportable from the United States if the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe the alien’s presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.
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Now what about the ones who are US citizens or even government employees?
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Whatever fines they impose upon Americans for their censorship collect it back with tariffs and make the victims whole .
The US government is supposed to be in the business of PROTECTING the right to free speech. Not figuring out how to secretly create a mass censorship apparatus.
The US government is supposed to be in the business of PROTECTING people’s implied right to privacy by no illegal searches and seizures, not having ones person or effects searched without a warrant. Not figuring out how to hide that they are collecting on everyone, storing and sharing this information, without a warrant.
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This is a step in the right direction.
The only way to fix this is to dismantle it.
The US government needs to physically break the technical systems in place to conduct these actions. Anything less will be short lived until the next jerk politician sees a benefit for himself in spying on his opponent, or in manipulating the narrative through mass censorship.
It’s a start.
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