{"id":2408077,"date":"2025-02-28T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-will-take-action-if-uk-censors-americans\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:55:19","slug":"trump-administration-will-take-action-if-uk-censors-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-will-take-action-if-uk-censors-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Will &#8216;Take Action&#8217; If UK Censors Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-administration-will-take-action-if-uk-censors-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2408077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Times Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID-19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> the Trump administration&#8217;s commitment to\u200d responding if British Prime\u2062 Minister Keir Starmer enforces censorship \u2064on \u200cAmericans&#8217; speech in \u200dthe UK. President Trump emphasized \u200dthe importance\u200d of free speech and expressed concern during conversations with\u200d Starmer and other officials, including\u200d Vice President J.D. Vance \u200band Secretary of State Marco Rubio. rubio \u2064specifically highlighted\u200b the risks\u2063 American speech faces under \u2064foreign \u200ccensorship laws, emphasizing the shared values of free\u200d speech \u2063between the U.S. and the UK. Despite Starmer&#8217;s assertion of a longstanding commitment to free speech in the UK, there are \u2064ongoing \u200cconcerns \u2062about how UK censorship \u2064laws are impacting citizens, notably\u2064 regarding issues \u200clike abortion and immigration\u2063 opinions. \u200cVance noted that the U.S. would vigorously defend free speech rights \u2062for\u200b Americans online,\u2064 aiming to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">find common ground<\/a> with\u200c the UK on \u2064this \u2062issue.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span>Breccan F. 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Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had also brought up the concern.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said he has &ldquo;real concern&rdquo; with British conduct toward speech, particularly when it comes to censoring Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s real concern that American speech, which is online, could fall into the hands of the British or any country&rsquo;s jurisdiction,&rdquo; Rubio said. &ldquo;What unites us with Europe &hellip; is these shared values, and one of them being free speech. And so, if Americans are threatened by it, we&rsquo;re going to need to take action.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"akdxWMAVpy5ufBG2T64zZyeSK0ongu9Zd9wtrCS3Q7Bsjw8l1vMWvbJLEFPhit6\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump and Rubio respond to a question from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDRLST?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FDRLST<\/a> reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreccanFThies<\/a> about how the U.S. can trust the U.K. while its prime minister lies about its government censorship operations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4NLYGWVjKL\">pic.twitter.com\/4NLYGWVjKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Federalist (@FDRLST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDRLST\/status\/1895559119891021855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During their meeting on Thursday, when confronted on the issue, Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/28\/british-pm-is-wrong-there-is-no-free-speech-in-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had free speech for a very, very long time in, in the United Kingdom and it will last for a very, very long time. &hellip; In relation to free speech in the U.K., I&rsquo;m very proud of our history there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance mentioned the issue of European censorship more broadly during a conference in Munich, Germany, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the question on Friday, Vance said the administration spoke to Starmer &ldquo;in detail&rdquo; during a lunch meeting, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick followed up on the issue in private meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We believe Americans have the right to speak their mind &mdash; even if we in this room disagree with them &mdash; they have the right to speak their mind in the public square, which is often online these days,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to defend that right as it pertains to American companies and American citizens vigorously if we have to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I do think that under the President&rsquo;s leadership,&rdquo; Vance continued, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re going to find common ground with our friends in the U.K. on this question, but it remains to be seen. The principle that will guide us is, we believe in free speech in this country and will fight for it for American citizens.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist reported, the U.K. has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/28\/british-pm-is-wrong-there-is-no-free-speech-in-the-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gone after its own citizens<\/a> for peacefully praying outside abortion clinics, and Scottish citizens were informed that prayer inside their own homes could be criminalized. <\/p>\n<p>On the basis of its &ldquo;hate speech&rdquo; laws, the U.K. government has arrested, tried, and found guilty many of its citizens, often for having mainstream points of view on things like abortion or immigration.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Breccan F. 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