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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

This is why you can’t trust Europeans with their regulations, they are just as corrupt as the Americans. And I love regulation, but the politicians that end up calling the shots are as stupid, tainted and corrupt as our trumpian overlords.

We truly are ruled by crooks.

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/eu-us-sanctions-gaza-russia

Europe Is Sanctioning Critics of Israel and Militarism

Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or traveling are increasingly used to chill free speech in Europe.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉14h ago

More European corruption. Really you don’t want to cross the Israelis. He resigned three days ago from his UN role:

Heath Borders 13h ago

@Migueldeicaza Israel is terrible, and this is the US' fault. The US has the power to make these sanctions happen

Tobin Baker 7h ago

@heathborders @Migueldeicaza if you read the article, the main case they discuss does not seem to have anything to do with the US.

txtx 🇪🇺20h ago

@Migueldeicaza People working for Putin, whether directly for RT or for a subsidiary of RT, should be sanctioned by the EU. This is reasonable.

Russia is shooting drones at the EU and cutting our undersea cables, and we just let their propagandists run around? That's crazy.

I'm glad the EU is doing this.

Miha Markič 20h ago

@txtx @Migueldeicaza Right, a single journalist takes all the possible sanctions without a due process on dubious charges while ie Orbán and Fico are fine. Figures.

txtx 🇪🇺20h ago

@mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza RT isn't journalism.

Orbán and Fico are *not* ok.

@txtx @mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza

Free speech?

Are you afraid that the power of words and investigative journalism might prove the EU is not the benign entity it advertises itself as?

Listen to yourself.

You're backing totalitarian control over words and truth - destroying your democracies... For what? Israel?

Free speech for you but not for you - never works.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉19h ago

@rapsneezy @txtx @mihamarkic I am always reminded of

txtx 🇪🇺19h ago

@rapsneezy This is the EU, not the USA. If you copy American constitutional argument, that's your thing. It has nothing to do with us.

Nazi speech, russonazi/communist speech and other hate propaganda is banned in many EU countries.

As it should be.

@mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza

@txtx @mihamarkic @Migueldeicaza

thanks for revealing for other readers the vacuousness of your argument

double standards is no standards

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉19h ago

@txtx @rapsneezy @mihamarkic like I said, go debate with ChatGPT so you can be told how smart you are. Or grok- that will also do.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉19h ago

@txtx @rapsneezy @mihamarkic for now, I have derived nothing of interest from you in this exchange, nor do I anticipate you will be able to enrich me personally on any way - so I have muted you.

Sayonara!

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉19h ago

@txtx I don’t have time today to explain principles of law to a European. But ChatGPT can probably do it in my abscence

txtx 🇪🇺19h ago

@Migueldeicaza Hate/nazis speech is illegal in much of the EU.

I'm glad it is.

@Migueldeicaza Jacobin is defending Russia Today propagandists along with people that were genuinely targeted for calling out Israel, not a great look.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉14h ago

@misk this particular case is over reporting on Palestine, which you can find if you bother to look into it.

Thank you and muted for wasting my time.

@Migueldeicaza I’m sure there were well meaning guys reporting real issues for Goebbels as well. It’s usually a good idea to distance yourself from Goebbels though.

Heath Borders 17h ago

@Migueldeicaza if this continues, cryptocurrency might become a feasible thing for some folks

Fluchtkapsel 10h ago

@Migueldeicaza While I will always criticise the EU for its failures this one is up to the USA and its dominance in the financial system. These banks just comply, maybe in advance, because they don't want to get shut out of the Visa/MasterCard duopoly which they'd risk if they wouldn't respect these sanction lists.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉10h ago

@fluchtkapsel the sanction was political - I am putting the blame on the politicians and not the bank.