By Graham J Noble

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Global Disinformation Index: Both organizations – to use a rather tired but unfortunately appropriate analogy – do sound rather Orwellian. That’s because they are. Words like “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “hate speech” have come into common use over the past decade or so by those whose goal is large-scale censorship. It’s certainly reminiscent of “Newspeak” from Orwell’s 1984. And while they are currently out of power in the US, these despotic types – leaders of the globalist left – are very much in control across the Atlantic. But the Trump administration has begun to fight back with real consequences.

On December 23, US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers announced sanctions against five Europeans in a post to X, banning them from traveling to America. The five individuals are Thierry Breton, a former member of the European Commission; Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of Germany-based HateAid; and Clare Melford, who heads the UK-based Global Disinformation Index.

Ballon once told CBS’s 60 Minutes that “Free speech needs boundaries.” Ahmed currently resides in the US, but his future here is now uncertain.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the five were sanctioned because........

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