{"id":142966,"date":"2025-12-24T02:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142966"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:28:58","slug":"us-hits-5-europeans-with-visa-bans-in-censorship-rowunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142966","title":{"rendered":"US hits 5 Europeans with visa bans in \u2018censorship\u2019 rowUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US State Department announced on Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure US tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.<br \/>\nThe Europeans, characterised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as \u201cradical\u201d activists and \u201cweaponised\u201d non-governmental organisations, fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States.<br \/>\n\u201cFor far too long,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3337562\/us-hits-5-europeans-visa-bans-censorship-row?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US State Department announced on Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure US tech&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}