The Australian government recently banned internet use without ID. China long ago did so. In the EU efforts are also underway to ban all anonymous internet use. (The government of Ireland is leading the push in the EU to require that all internet users on the continent be known and identified to governments.)
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for “an end to anonymity on social media.” As most observant critics know, this push is a major agenda plank of the World Economic Forum. WEF is currently pressuring governments and ‘thought leaders’ around the globe to increase censorship. Recently the Dallas Morning News came out in support of mandatory ID laws for internet log-ins.
In many ways this movement is reminiscent of the requirement that all printing presses be licensed in England between 1662 and 1695. Three centuries of progress for freedom of speech may be coming to an end.
This mass movement of globalists to ban anonymity of speech is consistent with general crackdowns on dissent. Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud used to do intelligence analysis with NATO, but he has reached unacceptable conclusions about the war in Ukraine. Therefore, he has been sanctioned by the EU and cannot access banks, cannot buy food etc.
The UK government is now arresting some 12,000 people per month for speaking online.
The EU recently issued a $150 million fine against X because X won’t increase censorship of anti-government thoughts.
The Trump US government is playing the role of global free speech protector.
Of course the US government itself has a long history of pushing censorship. US censorship reached its zenith during the previous (Biden) presidency when the US government was caught secretly funding the European-global censorship efforts. America First Legal revealed in March 2024 that Joe Biden was paying pro-government foreign operatives to target American websites like The Gateway Pundit which criticized governments. The Biden regime was funding Imran Ahmed and his UK-based censorship group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
Imran Ahmed’s group also targeted American news organizations like The Gateway Pundit, Zero Hedge, Breitbart, and several others. On June 15, 2021, Biden’s National Security Council published its first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
But presently, the Trump State Department (in a move obviously designed to protect US-based media platforms such as X and Meta) is imposing sanctions on the EU regarding the EU’s moves toward global censorship.
THE TRUMP/RUBIO DECEMBER 23, 2025 BAN OF FIVE EUROPEAN CENSORS
Recently, on December 23, 2025, the Trump/Rubio US State Department announced actions to “combat the global censorship-industrial complex” by banning five specific individuals “who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose. “
The five banned censors are Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index; and former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton.
Imran Ahmed is, ironically already in the US and is subject to deportation. However Ahmed recently petitioned a federal judge in the US Southern District of New York to halt deportation proceedings against Ahmed.
PBS recently broadcasted an overly friendly (almost fawning) interview with Ahmed in which PBS described the Trump Administration’s ban of Ahmed as ITSELF an act of censorship. PBS described Ahmed as merely a “researcher”–suggesting Ahmed was without any power or authority. Ahmed said he is simply trying to hold mega-corporations such as X and Meta “accountable” and to keep the corporations from evading “responsibility.”
