Well, that ain't as bad news/punishment as it used to be.

Not many people want to visit the US under Trump anymore and many countries already have travel advisories for the US now.

At some point you need to draw a hard line in sand when it comes to people trying to actively supress freedom of expression.

Otherwise they just keep trying and trying. A bully won't stop until he gets punched in the face, and this is what the USA did to the EU bully bureaucrats pushing their will everywhere.

Shame that so few of us Europeans do the same.

Hardly a surprise that the country run by the ghouls who won their elections through lies and manipulation are going after people attempting to combat "fake news", but the blatant way they go about it is what sickens me the most. It used to be, at least for a while, that these kinds of direct attacks had to at least be wrapped in some kind of bigger package that pretends to serve the common good so politicians could pretend they had a reason not to object, but America has gone fully mask-off.

America knows Europe is feeling the Russian threat down their neck and that they cannot afford the war against Putin without American help, so America can do what they want without risk of consequences.

I hope the American people aren't expecting European help for their upcoming invasion of Venezuela. I doubt European nations are willing to repeat the fiasco in the middle east in the middle of the American destabilisation campaign.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374087