{"id":953428,"date":"2025-08-08T07:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953428"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:32:10","slug":"rubio-orders-us-diplomats-to-launch-lobbying-blitz-against-europes-tech-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/08\/rubio-orders-us-diplomats-to-launch-lobbying-blitz-against-europes-tech-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe&#8217;s tech law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union&#8217;s Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed. <\/p>\n<p>In a State Department cable dated August 4 that was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency said the EU was pursuing &#8220;undue&#8221; restrictions on freedom of expression by its efforts to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation and the DSA was further enhancing these curbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union&#8217;s Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed. In a State Department cable dated August 4 that was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency said the EU was pursuing &#8220;undue&#8221; restrictions on freedom of expression by its efforts to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation and the DSA was further enhancing these curbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}