{"id":35181,"date":"2025-12-06T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=35181"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:55:37","slug":"eu-insists-its-not-censoring-americans-just-requiring-pre-approval-for-every-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/eu-insists-its-not-censoring-americans-just-requiring-pre-approval-for-every-word\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Insists It\u2019s Not Censoring Americans, Just Requiring Pre-Approval For Every Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS&#8211; Pushing back against accusations of authoritarian overreach, European Union (EU) officials held a press conference Friday to clarify that they are \u201cabsolutely not censoring Americans,&#8221; they are merely implementing a \u201charmless, administrative, pre-approval protocol\u201d for every syllable uttered within the borders of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not censorship,\u201d said EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen while the words &#8220;Approved American Vocabulary&#8221; scrolled across a large screen behind her. &#8220;We just want to ensure that every American utterance meets our rigorous standards of not offending anyone, anywhere, ever. It\u2019s a small price to pay for the privilege of existing in the same universe as us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chief von der Leyen emphasized that the program is voluntary, except for the fines, penalties, mandatory training modules, threats of arrests from overseas, and occasional dignity seizure for non-compliance.<\/p>\n<p>The new proposed guidelines follow a series of escalating EU fines against Twitter\/X for allowing Americans to speak online without the approval of the EU Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/european-leaders-hold-emergency-meeting-to-figure-out-how-to-blame-trump-for-europe-knife-attacks\/\">EU Commission<\/a> later stressed that calling them anti-free speech is misinformation, which is a punishable offense under their new speech regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS&#8211; Pushing back against accusations of authoritarian overreach, European Union (EU) officials held a press conference Friday to clarify that they are \u201cabsolutely not censoring Americans,&#8221; they are merely implementing a \u201charmless, administrative, pre-approval protocol\u201d for every syllable uttered within the borders of the United States. \u201cThis is not censorship,\u201d said EU Chief Ursula von [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[800,58,1113,125],"class_list":["post-35181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-rated-g","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}