Against those who censor companies, US citizens and residents in the US are targeting. This is the understanding of the authorities and the European press, who passed away from the dispute between Bolsonarists and the Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
“Whether in Latin America, Europe or anywhere else, the days of passive treatment to those working to undermine the rights of Americans have come to an end,” Marco Rubio wrote on Wednesday (29). Although the US Secretary of State has been careful to use geography to pass messages, Brussels and much of its leaders only realized references to themselves in the comment.
One of the few vehicles that had remembered Brazil in the coverage of the episode, Financial Times, eliminated the quote when it updated its report on the subject with another bombastic announcement of Rubio do Dia ,.
The economic newspaper, on the other hand, had published hours before an article about US threats to Moraes, as well as the performance of Brazilian diplomacy in the case.
In general, the understanding was that the Trump administration, with the argument that the requirement of moderation and hurt freedom of expression in the US.
“It is unacceptable for foreign authorities to issue or threaten to issue arrest warrants against US citizens or residents of US social networks while physically present on American soil,” Rubio said in a broader statement on the subject, with a description that fits in the Brazilian case.
Europeans once again preferred to look over another part of the announcement: “It is equally unacceptable for foreign authorities to require US technological platforms to adopt or engage in censorship activities that exceed their authority and extend to.”
X and, among other platforms, are processed in Europe for lack of moderation in their contents.
This Thursday (29), in Aachen, the German Prime Minister, addressed another aspect of American politics, the accusation of censorship. In an event in honor of, the president of the European Commission, Merz stated that Europe is prepared to fight for its fundamental values, which include “freedom and democracy.”
Without quoting Rubio or the threat of using visas such as punishment, Merz remembered the US Vice President, who, in February, at the Munich Security Conference, and that freedom of expression on the continent was set back.
Vance referred to the block’s efforts to contain false news and the rise of populist days before. “US Vice President Jd Vance confronted us with this question in his own way in Munich earlier this year: What do we Europeans defend together?, Merz said in a speech.
“We have the best and strongest response to imagine. We in Europe defend what, throughout centuries, through numerous setbacks and catastrophes, we conceive, develop, achieve and what we fight together: the conviction that it is worth defending freedom and democracy and, if necessary, fighting to preserve them.”
At the time, Vance’s demonstration was seen as interference in the German election. It reinforced the impression that the American politician met with AFD leaders, the country’s far right party, which deserved.
Since then, the performance of Trump administration members in European elections has been trivialized. Rubio and the president himself sought to influence the two weeks ago. On Tuesday (27), Kristi Noem, secretary of national security, was in a conservative event in Poland, which has a second decisive presidential round on Sunday (1st) between a populist and the mayor of Warsaw.
