US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA

https://mastodon.social/@fj/115773761468906515

43•pojntfx•2h ago

Comments

derelicta•1h ago

See thats why one needs a sovereign financial and banking system. But tbh, Europeans deserve it, for they use and abuse of sanctions themselves, as some of Swiss citizens can attest.

looperhacks•38m ago

Can you explain what sanctions impact swiss citizens?

sakex•1m ago

What Trump is doing to the EU is basically what the EU has been doing to us forever. Forced trade deals, forced tariffs, placing us on some lists. If we don't comply, they will impose sanctions. They are even trying to make gun ownership illegal in Switzerland...

I don't have love for Trump, but seeing the EU wining about being bullied by a bigger union is really funny to me.

drooopy•33m ago

Are you referring to Jacques Baud who has been sanctioned recently because he has been working as a mouthpiece of the russian government?

newsclues•26m ago

I’ve seen his interviews on YouTube and I’m not sure if he is a Russian asset or just says things contrary to the western narrative. There is a propaganda war.

So what hard evidence that he is working for the Russians?

YY348762378•22m ago

Jaques Baud is not a "mouthpiece". He has never appeared on Russian state TV and has taken great pains to avoid citing Russian sources in his analysis. The problem is that what he has been saying about the Ukraine war (that the war is not winnable and peace should be negotiated as soon as possible) is dangerous as to European leadership.

vfclists•20m ago

In the same way John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs are mouthpieces of the Russian govt?

Since when is it OK for governments to sanction people when they are lawfully expressing disagreement with Govt policies or views?

abc123abc123•21m ago

Yep. Very little freedom of speech in the EU if you're conservative/nationalist, so it is very fun to see how the EU political nobility react when they get to experience the same thing as countless critics of massimmigration. I hope that Trump continues to help european nationalists/conservatives to fight back against the leftists who have been monopolizing the power in the EU for far too long.

Phelinofist•18m ago

Can you give examples of the little freedom of speech?

krior•7m ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

avianlyric•11m ago

> See thats why one needs a sovereign financial and banking system.

You mean a sovereign financial and banking system like the one currently freezing some $200B of Russian assets? Yeah I think the EU already has one of those.

saubeidl•31m ago

The digital Euro and dedollarization can't come quickly enough.

vixen99•3m ago

- for you.

jadbox•30m ago

From the thread, "If you want an explainer on why the EU’s DSA Fine Against X is Not About Speech or Censorship read this article:" https://www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-a...

stuffoverflow•25m ago

Sanctions in this context mean visa restrictions (travel ban to US). So not financial sanctions. Just thought it would be a good thing to clarify.

CrossVR•22m ago

I find it deeply cynical that representatives of a federalized union call upon another union to disband in favor of national identity. It is a transparent ploy to sow division within another competing union for geopolitical gain.

throw-the-towel•19m ago

The world hegemon caught doing cynical thing, news at 11.

zkmon•19m ago

EU has no dependency on other unless they want to remain as babies with a lavish lifestyle. Time to grow up and man up.

They should also stop pretence of global leadership, send billions here and there. Have a strong leadership that can just mind their own people.

exasperaited•15m ago

The day will come when we ban Steve Bannon, Elon Musk and JD Vance from the UK and I think for some that day is getting closer.

(I personally expect Vance to be banned from the UK - along with Denmark and Greenland - as soon as he is no longer VP. But then I suspect his days of international travel will end then more generally.)

But since diplomacy requires proportionality, maybe we start with Bannon, or Nick Fuentes, or Andrew Auernheimer. (They really should be banned from travel here like Matthew Heimbach and Richard Spencer already are.)

vixen99•5m ago

Your suggestion should it materialize would certainly be in line with the general atmosphere which has been developing in the UK.

seydor•2m ago

It's funny how the US administration thinks people like Breton acted ideologically. Brusselocrats are career politicians caring more about their CV than the spirit of their actions. They do populist flashy things, it's not like they'd lose an election or anything. Ban them all you want, you re just buttering their bread , it's another bullet in their CV, a badge of honor.

Then again, Trump has to win the election, and the Bell curve is symmetrical

36890752189743•1m ago

Of course far-left extremists on Mastodon support the censorship industrial complex. The corrupt regime's foundation is the persecution of dissenters and making hay while doing it.

Ask HN: What is the most modular sync engine?

Happy Holidays

Reduced a 1.5GB Database by 99%

Show HN: Clean Hyprland 0.52 RPM Builds for Fedora via COPR

Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?

A (humble) new proposal for the FE ecosystem

Poetiq achieves 75% on ARC AGI 2 using GPT5.2 X-High

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence: Pre-Print

Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator (2024)

The reason you don't 'get' Zettelkasten (2022)

US sanctions former EU commissioner over efforts to curb online hate speech

The Reddit API Is Dead for Indie Devs

Zelensky reveals full 20-point peace plan draft backed by Ukraine, US

Renault concept goes 626 miles on single charge at motorway speed

ChatGPT's CSS may hide model info (clip-path, opacity:0, user-select:none) [pdf]

We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria

FreeBSD: Installation on a ThinkPad X200 Tablet in 2025

Popular Education AI Prompts for Teaching Excellence Education

Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami

Show HN: WatchLLM – Semantic caching to cut LLM API costs by 70%

SHow HN: Prompt-RAG – Fix low-quality AI images using a 500 prompt vector DB

2025: The Year SwiftUI Died

The Most Cursed Web Development Stack You'd Ever See Before Christmas [video]

Accelerating complex Python models by 300x+ – using Claude.ai [video]

Why Does Nuclear Power Plant Construction Cost So Much? (2023)

Show HN: BunPush, Modern Realtime pusher compatible built on Bun

Show HN: I created a free pdf to quiz maker tool

The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here

Live Streaming Agent Framework development from scratch in Go

Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right