{"id":982006,"date":"2025-12-24T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982006"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:35:21","slug":"us-denies-visas-to-eu-ex-commissioner-four-others-over-tech-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/us-denies-visas-to-eu-ex-commissioner-four-others-over-tech-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"US denies visas to EU ex-commissioner, four others over tech rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department said Tuesday it would deny visas to a former EU commissioner and four others, accusing them of seeking to &#8220;coerce&#8221; American social media platforms into censoring viewpoints they oppose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states &#8212; in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,&#8221; the department said in a statement announcing the sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department said Tuesday it would deny visas to a former EU commissioner and four others, accusing them of seeking to &#8220;coerce&#8221; American social media platforms into censoring viewpoints they oppose. &#8220;These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states &#8212; in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,&#8221; the department said in a statement announcing the sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982006","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}