Trump’s plan to circumvent European internet content bans is a geopolitical nightmare
A year ago at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance accused Europe of using “ugly, Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation” to justify restricting dissent, and warned that its speech rules posed a greater threat to democracy than Russia or China.
Now the Trump administration is acting on that belief.
Earlier this month, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed this year’s conference (in a far more conciliatory tone), the U.S. government launched Freedom.gov.
For now it’s just a landing page, but it is........
