Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the United States would be sanctioning five foreigners who colluded with the Biden administration and organization within the U.S. to stifle the free speech of Americans. Specifically, these five individuals pressured American tech companies to wage censorship campaigns against U.S. citizens and companies, which Rubio said created “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences."

Rubio called the coordinated effort the "global censorship-industrial complex," and said the five guilty parties would be barred from entering the United States. Additionally, the State Department can use the Immigration and Nationality Act to expel any of the five if they are currently in the U.S.

For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.

Today, @StateDept will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.

Amongst the five are a former European Union commissioner and leaders of European-based non-governmental organizations that exist to address "digital hate." That's codespeak for censorship, of course, but the Trump administration thankfully doesn't play that game.

One of Rubio's deputies, Under Secretary of State for Public Policy Sarah Rodgers, followed up the secretary's announcement with a detailed look at the five offenders and the egregious actions they took to silence Americans.

It's a very long thread, so we'll try to sum it up for you using Rodgers's exact explanations. Per Under Secretary Rodgers, those who've been slapped with sanctions are (emphasis ours):

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Under the Visa Waiver Program, most Europeans don't need a visa to enter the United States, but do need to complete an online application that is reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Meaning, it's very possible that DHS has already flagged the five and taken any necessary actions against them.

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This isn't the first time the Trump administration has taken decisive action against foreign agents who try to meddle in the affairs of the United States. Back in July, Rubio announced sanctions against Francesca Paola Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, for her sustained "campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel." 

The days of expecting the US to tolerate the interference of Europeans who think they're our overlords are over and done with. Rubio’s willingness to call them out and punish them sends an unmistakable message: foreign meddling, especially when it interferes with the First Amendment, will not be tolerated, and those who try will find the doors to the United States firmly shut to them.