The days of censoring Americans online are over, said US secretary of state Marco Rubio. “The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage,” vice-president JD Vance wrote on X. Europe is pursuing “civilizational suicide” through regulation and censorship, added Christopher Landau, Rubio’s deputy. And so on. All of this because the EU last week imposed a modest $140mn fine on Elon Musk’s X for transgressions unrelated to free speech. But forget the details. Musk is the EU’s sworn enemy. As is Donald Trump, who this week described Europe as “decaying” and its leaders “weak”.
美國國務卿馬爾科?魯比奧(Marco Rubio)表示，審查美國人網絡言論的時代已經結束。“歐盟應該支持言論自由，而不是因為一些垃圾就攻擊美國公司，”美國副總統JD?萬斯(JD Vance)在X平臺上寫道。魯比奧的副手克里斯托弗?蘭道(Christopher Landau)補充說，監管和審查正使歐洲走向“文明自殺”。類似言論沒完沒了，而起因只是歐盟上周對埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)的X平臺處以數額并不太大的1.4億美元罰款，而X被指違規的事項與言論自由毫無關系。但細節無須深究。馬斯克是歐盟的死對頭。唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)也是，他在本周形容歐洲“衰落”，其領導人“軟弱”。