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Donald Trump bans two Britons and former EU commissioner from the States for 'curbing American free speech'
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 24, 2025 | Joe Brady

Posted on 12/24/2025 5:16:10 AM PST by C19fan

Donald Trump's government has banned two Brits - including a campaign group leader with links to senior Labour figures - and a former EU commissioner from the United States for allegedly seeking to curb free speech among Americans online.

The US State Department says it has sanctioned Imran Ahmed, leader of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and Clare Melford, of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), for seeking to 'coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose'.

Mr Ahmed, a Cambridge graduate who is based in Washington DC according to an online CV, faces deportation; Ms Melford will have her US visa revoked.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: eeeeeyooooo; speech; yurp; yurpeons

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1 posted on 12/24/2025 5:16:10 AM PST by C19fan
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Good! 😠


2 posted on 12/24/2025 5:17:42 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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Good.


3 posted on 12/24/2025 5:22:41 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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They are enemies of freedom here to undermine ours.


4 posted on 12/24/2025 5:27:36 AM PST by dforest
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Sort of getting even for Michael Savage’s ban


5 posted on 12/24/2025 5:28:59 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: C19fan

That’s the way you do it, money for nothing and your....


6 posted on 12/24/2025 5:29:03 AM PST by Fungi
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Remember when the Brits barred Michael Savage? This must be a sweet moment for him.


7 posted on 12/24/2025 5:31:47 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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https://patriots.win/p/1ARdRKRDNe


8 posted on 12/24/2025 5:33:08 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Starmer’s henchmen.


9 posted on 12/24/2025 5:35:57 AM PST by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT!)
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Which judge will overturn?


10 posted on 12/24/2025 5:37:20 AM PST by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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“...Imran Ahmed...”

The free world is in great danger because people like this are getting political and high end positions in our countries...


11 posted on 12/24/2025 5:37:21 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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“Mr Ahmed, a Cambridge graduate…”

…all the more reason


12 posted on 12/24/2025 5:56:48 AM PST by albie
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To: George from New England

That was a savage comment...


13 posted on 12/24/2025 6:00:20 AM PST by sauropod
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Merry Christmas!


14 posted on 12/24/2025 6:01:32 AM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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“Imran Ahmed”

Anyone with that name doesn’t belong here, anyhow. Buh-BYE, Raghead.


15 posted on 12/24/2025 6:03:16 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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The US simply can’t allow the EU or any nation for that matter to pass laws that penalize American Companies over free speech issues, which also affect the free speech of Americans.

I hope this is only the first step, if the EU doesn’t back down, the further sanctions should be enacted.


16 posted on 12/24/2025 6:03:40 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ditto


17 posted on 12/24/2025 6:03:55 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: C19fan

Most excellent.

Send their Limey butts home.


18 posted on 12/24/2025 6:04:22 AM PST by OKSooner (Susie is Rasputin.)
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It serves these far-left, looney, censorious, would-be-dictator Labourites right.


19 posted on 12/24/2025 6:05:22 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Global Disinformation Index? Wow, talk about Big Brother titles from George Orwell's 1984!
20 posted on 12/24/2025 6:10:39 AM PST by Chgogal (The NYT is the mouthpiece of the violent left-wing Democrat Party)
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