Trump administration trying to deport anyone trying to inform public about disinformation and the Trump administration's adoption of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/26/us-judge-trump-imran-ahmed-uk-anti-disinformation-campaigner
#CCDH #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #Fascism #AntiSemetism
Imran Ahmed verklagt die #Trump Regierung
„Ich kämpfe gegen meine unrechtmäßige Abschiebung aus meinem Heimatland“, erklärte Ahmed, der Leiter der Nichtregierungsorganisation Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)
Die US-Regierung hat gegen fünf Personen, die sich gegen Hass im Internet einsetzen, wegen angeblicher Zensur Einreiseverbote verhängt. Einer von ihnen, der Brite Imran Ahmed, geht nun dagegen vor.
If you were wondering what Imran Ahmed of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has done to get his US visa revoked?
It seems the Trump administration objects to; People drawing the attention of lawmakers to how US big tech spins a profit.
Google has become a prime funder of violent racist antisemitic content on the internet.
#TheGuardian: "#ImranAhmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering #DigitalHate (#CCDH), has filed a complaint against senior #Trump allies including #MarcoRubio, and #PamBondi, in an attempt to prevent what he says would be an unconstitutional arrest and removal…over his organisation’s work scrutinising #socialmedia…incl #ElonMusks's X… in violation of #firstamendment.
Ahmed lives lawfully in Washington DC with his American wife and child."
cc @Nonilex
HateAid kämpft im Netz für die Einhaltung von Recht und Gesetz und gegen strafbare Inhalte wie Morddrohungen oder antisemitische Volksverhetzungen. Dafür sollen sie jetzt bestraft werden. Die Sanktionen treffen in erster Linie die HateAid-Geschäftsführerinnen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon. Ihre Einreise in die USA ist ab sofort untersagt, aber es könnte auch andere Organisationen oder Menschen treffen. Und das ist noch nicht alles: Jederzeit könnten Kontensperrungen oder...
A quick run through the archives reminds us that Mr Ahmed’s CCDH recently called for Ofcom to be able to appeal for powers of direct censorship in times of crisis, whilst elsewhere downplayin…
A quick run through the archives reminds us that Mr Ahmed’s CCDH recently called for Ofcom to be able to appeal for powers of direct censorship in times of crisis, whilst elsewhere downplayin…
“Trump [poised to] to deport boss of Starmer-linked charity” | Imran Ahmed of CCDH, being booted from USA?
A quick run through the archives reminds us that Mr Ahmed’s CCDH recently called for Ofcom to be able to appeal for powers of direct censorship in times of crisis, whilst elsewhere downplaying the consequences of the Online Safety Act lest it get a bad reputation.
And now the Americans are considering kicking him out? This might be the start of genuine consequences for the “Duty of Care” OSA.
Quoth the Telegraph: (archived)
In 2021, the group named Mr Kennedy, the current Health Secretary, as one of its “Disinformation Dozen”, a list of 12 people it claimed should have their accounts removed from social media for posting anti?vaccine content.
Leaked documents, thought to have been drawn up by the CCDH, also reportedly listed “kill Musk’s Twitter” as one of the group’s annual priorities last year.
The non-profit published a series of highly critical reports linking Mr Musk’s takeover of the platform, now known as X, to rising misinformation and hate speech that was “spreading like wildfire”.
and:
The move is part of an American campaign to “step up pressure” on Britain’s Online Safety Act. The law, which regulates online speech, allows the UK Government to levy massive fines on US companies such as Apple, Truth Social, and X if it finds that rules on hate speech have been broken.
Those in the president’s inner circle see the potential penalties as an unwarranted foreign intervention into American free speech.
Since the law came into effect this year, Ofcom, the UK’s online regulator, has written to several US firms ordering them to conform to the act.
It has sparked outrage from Congressmen and legal experts in the US, who say the overreach is a threat by the UK to silence America’s companies and citizens if they refuse to comply with the British Government’s view of what is acceptable to post online.
“The one thing everyone [in the Trump administration] agrees on is the need to dramatically pressure the UK over the Online Safety Act,” the source said.
#ageVerification #ccdh #censorship #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #VPN
The Center for Countering Digital Hate get a buff in the Times today proposing that Ofcom be granted rather extraordinary powers for supposedly extraordinary times; as Graham Smith puts it: “…
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