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The Trump administration has issued travel bans that prohibit five European tech researchers, including one former EU Commissioner, from entering the United States. \u201cFor far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship,\u201d said<\/a> US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n That official is Thierry Breton<\/a>, the former European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Digital Services, who Sarah Rogers called<\/a> the \u201cmastermind\u201d of the Digital Services Act. Rogers, the Under Secretary of State, said Breton threatened Elon Musk about ongoing formal proceedings for X\u2019s noncompliance with \u201cillegal content\u201d and \u201cdisinformation\u201d under the DSA just before his meeting with President Trump. The administration has also banned Imran Ahmed from the Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/a> (CCDH), who apparently called for American anti-vaxxers to be deplatformed. One of those people is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who\u2019s now the US Secretary of Health.<\/p>\n Clare Melford from the UK-based Global Disinformation Index has also been banned. Her group monitors online platforms for hate speech. Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon from German organization HateAid, have been banned, as well. HateAid flags hate speech online for the EU under DSA rules.<\/p>\n