https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-grants-injunction-blocking-us-detaining-british-anti-disinformation-2025-12-25/WASHINGTON, Dec 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed, after the U.S. permanent resident sued officials over an entry ban for his role in what Washington argues is online censorship.Washington imposed visa bans on Tuesday on Ahmed and four Europeans, including French former EU commissioner Thierry Breton. It accuses them of working to censor freedom of speech or unfairly target U.S. tech giants with burdensome regulation. Ahmed lives in New York and is believed to be the only of the five currently in the country.The move sparked an outcry from European governments who argue regulations and the work of monitoring groups made the internet safer by highlighting false information and compelling tech giants to do more to tackle illegal content, including hate speech and child sexual abuse material.For Ahmed, the 47-year-old CEO of the U.S.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, it also sparked fears of imminent deportation that would separate him from his wife and child, both U.S. citizens, according to a lawsuit he filed on Wednesday in the Southern District of New York.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when announcing the visa restrictions, said he had determined the presence of the five in the United States had potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States and they could therefore be deported.Ahmed named Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump officials in his lawsuit, arguing officials were violating his rights to free speech and due process with the threat of deportation.U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday, which enjoined officials from arresting, detaining or transferring Ahmed before he has an opportunity for his case to be heard, and scheduled a conference between the parties for December 29.Ahmed, in a statement provided by a representative, praised the U.S. legal system's checks and balances and said he was proud to call the country his home. "I will not be bullied away from my life’s work of fighting to keep children safe from social media’s harm and stopping antisemitism online," he said.In response to questions about the case, a State Department spokesperson said: "The Supreme Court and Congress have repeatedly made clear: the United States is under no obligation to allow foreign aliens to come to our country or reside here."
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.Legal permanent residents, known as green card holders, do not need a visa to remain in the U.S., but the Trump administration has attempted to deport at least one already this year.Mahmoud Khalil, detained in March after his prominent involvement in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, was released by a judge who argued punishing someone over a civil immigration matter was unconstitutional.A U.S. immigration judge in September ordered Khalil to be deported over claims he omitted information from his green card application, but he appealed that ruling and separate orders blocking his deportation remain in place.
This is a good rage bait article.>"""british national""" named Imran Ahmed, second generation muslim based in the US>fights """disinformation""" with Center for Countering Digital Hate, an Orwellian NGO >uses the US's own laws to maintain his presence in the US as a propagandist >"Ahmed, in a statement provided by a representative, praised the U.S. legal system's checks and balances and said he was proud to call the country his home."Holy FUCK
>>1469181His wife and child are citizens, therefore he stays and he can say whatever he wants. Seems like a pretty simple case for the judge.
>>1469184>Seems like a pretty simple case for the judge.Who?>U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_S._Broderick>On April 15, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Broderick to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkOf fucking course.
So far right conservatives and their Russian masters are seething this guy wants to debunk their lies and can't use lawfare to stop him while ironically citing free speech in their attempt to silence his.Fascists, not even once.
>>1469185>an actual scholar of jurisprudence and not a hack from a thinktankcorrect.
>>1469185Obama is the greatest, what a guy!
>>1469188This but unironically
>>1469178>Arresting a guy because he is advocating for regulating twitterAnd here I thought Trump had gotten Musk's mangled cock out of his mouth.
>>1469178>Judge grants injunction blocking US from detaining British anti-disinformation activistAs if that will stop him.They hated him because he spoke the Truth.>serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United StatesBut enough about the son of immigrants.
>>1469178>The move sparked an outcry from European governmentsThe EU makes substantially more money fining American tech businesses than they make from taxing their own tech business.https://www.xtb.com/int/market-analysis/news-and-research/eu-fines-for-tech-giants-their-role-in-eu-usa-competitionFuck em
>>1469206The EU's regulations are objectively better for the populace as a whole. US tech companies just hate they only managed to corrupt one branch of the world and making separate things for the EU and US is more expensive than just abiding by the EU rules.
>>1469207Sure, whatever. Let them police their own people and their own business, they have to authority to police or fine businesses outside of their justification
>>1469208>Let them police their own people and their own business, they have to authority to police or fine businesses outside of their justificationYou realize they literally don't? The only reason they fine and police companies based in the US is because those companies also operate in the EU and are pissed they wind up having to make changes overall because, again, it would be more expensive to make two separate versions of every product or app than it would be to just abide by EU rules worldwide?
>>1469210>The only reason they fine and police companies based in the US is because those companies also operate in the EUYou are demonstrably wrong. 4chan is an example. They have fined 4chan (which has no intention to pay it), and 4chan has no offices or locations in the EU.You are wrong.
>>14692144chan is accessible in the UK fuckwit.
>>1469206>>1469208If this upsets you so much, let those American businesses be locked out of the EU market entirely. This is classic conservatism. "I want to leech everything and not be held accountable at all"
>>1469218You said "operates" in the UK you faggot. Don't try to be pedantic here>https://duckduckgo.com/q=what+does+it+mean+if+a+business+operates+in+a+country4chan does not operate in the UK or the EU. It is accessible because it is a fucking website and the Internet exists. You are wrong again, fuckwit, international businesses are not beholden to the laws of any country that does not have any legal jurisdiction over them, and if some country doesn't like that it's up to that country to censor such a website, which I'm sure the EU is more than willing to censor whatever they want to
>>1469178>British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran AhmedLmao get how ass out of here
>>1469221Yeah that still counts as operating in the EU/UK you fucking moron. It has userbases there, therefore it has to follow their laws too.
>>1469232By your genius logic, Iran is allowed to fine pro-gay websites just for existing on the Internet
>>1469233He knows he's a retard>>1469232.Key Aspects of Business OperationsTypes of Activities>Establishing a Presence: Setting up offices, branches, or subsidiaries to manage operations locally.>Employment: Hiring local staff to support business functions.
>>1469178That's a good thing.Fuck Starmer and his North Korean dictatorship he's established.He's arresting more than China does on a daily basis over mean words online and he brings over propagandists to try telling us why we need to be deporting people to the UK for calling Starmer the pedophile he is.
>>1469181>>"Ahmed, in a statement provided by a representative, praised the U.S. legal system's checks and balances and said he was proud to call the country his home."Isn't that fucking hilarious that Britain can send people over to defend their Dictatorship where, in the country he's paid to propagandize for, he would have been arrested?>>1469219This would destroy the EU, they don't have any tech companies to fill the void.The reason they are here and not in the UK/EU is because the UK/EU are corrupt as fuck and have laws that dictate that any company who isn't decrypting everything server-side needs to be fined and raided. Fuck them. Worthless pedophile governments importing millions of rapists while spending more time trying to find out which farmers are going to protest so they can arrest them.
>>1469271This is a hell of a lot of projection.Also given Apple famously caved to the EU over adapters for the benfit of everyone else, the rest of the tech companies will follow suit. Unless they are puppets of Russia, like Musk and trump are. I still find it funny how holding tech companies for platforming clear lies is a bad thing for anyone but the liars.
>>1469277So true Xixster, it's projection to point out how EU is Corrupt as fuck when it comes to tech companies, by the way, don't click these or you may rope yourself:https://regtechtimes.com/your-data-could-be-decrypted-under-new-eu-plan/>Protect EU ignites global fears as EU plans to crack encrypted apps https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-encryption-roadmap-privacy-risks-decryption-backdoorshttps://www.luxembourgexpats.lu/stories/news/the-eu-parliament-wants-mandatory-scanning-of-private-chats>The EU Parliament wants mandatory scanning of private chatsNow, you being mentally ill, maybe you can hallucinate a reason that banning cryptography and reading everyone's messages has something to do with your fantasy of "holding tech companies for platforming clear lies". Unless you just want to give up and call me Ivan right now, and say that it's the Government's job to regulate speech between people and read everyone's private communications. I like how you have to use Apple changing their charger as a "Win" when Apple famously told the EU and the UK to fuck itself when they tried the same "decrypt everything or get banned" shit with them. https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-uk-could-make-a-u-turn-on-apples-encryption-backdoor-demand Useless nation of government cocksuckers.
>>1469277it's the truth though, every few years the EU has an autistic meltdown about "I NEED TO READ EVERYONE'S EMAILSSS" and use pretty flimsy mental gymnastics about Russia to justify why. It's so bad that the few EU tech companies that the EU did have are now leaving. Famously Spotify:https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/03/31/swedens-pm-says-europe-needs-to-do-more-to-retain-tech-companiesThus is the price to pay for having schizophrenic leaders who are also control freaks. Regulation is good, forcing products to be wholesale owned by the government instead of the business is just another way of bribing politicians in all but name.
>>1469280>waaaah, i deserve privacy>anyways, always vote MAGA and get rid of privacy in the US as well
>>1469279>>1469280>Defaults to calls of violenceMan, you're seething hard over the fact that tech companies platforming your lies should be held accountable.
>>1469277There's a big difference between stopping every company from using proprietary chargers and requiring all emails and posts critical of the parliament be turned over to the govt to arrest the person
>>1469332Your strawman aside, trump's already doing that demanding anyone who gets a visa hand over all their social media to reject you if you have illegal memes like that one Swede.Sounds like a clear case of conservatives seething that their own rules are being applied to them.
>>1469279Taylor Swift made the almighty Apple her bitch, thus her lawyer must be infinitely superior to theirs. And the EU said 'Jump', Apple only had the right to ask 'How high?'. That's the power that EU has. Speaking of power:>>1469280>"I NEED TO READ EVERYONE'S EMAILSSS"Terrorists, drug gangs & pedophile rings arrested - oh, and as for the latter, relevant data is shared with the FBI - due to one certain government agency scanning, monitoring & intercepting the entire telecommunications network; law enforcers give the press access to said arrests on condition that it's to be shown/published only after said arrests. Thus it's all done calmly & without fuss: and that's how said agency prefers it. Catching wrongdoers unawares.That government agency? GCHQ.When GCHQ posted their first Tweet, people jokingly replied 'Why bother? You read all of our emails anyway'.Their ultra-powerful supercomputers: apparently with quantum CPUs. It's the modern day Bletchley Park. Considering how they can brute force encryption with said supercomputers' quantum CPUs, GCHQ have compromised the Dark Web. White supremacist group - connected to Atomwaffen Division - National Action eliminated via arrests made: including their leader. All like them declared terrorists: and that was when there was a Conservative government. Now there's the opposite to them in power since last year, white rightards are fucked. No shitposting allowed. No wrong opinions allowed. No Fun Allowed. Good>GCHQ's first TweetThat was years before Muskrat bought that.>what EU can doHey Elol: considering what GCHQ can do, as Reagan would say, 'You ain't seen nothing yet'. It would be better for you to sell Xitter, Musky.
>>1469334>illegal memesThey justified the death of Charlie Kirk.We don't want terrorists or terrorist sympathizers in our country. That's not unreasonable or a sign of authoritarianism. Cope, seethe, eat shit.
>'Rightards can threaten Democrats, but we're not terrorists, nuh-uh!'>'You have a wrong opinion about Charlie Kirk, Democrat?! You're a terrorist!'The duality of the hypocrite.
>>1469206Maybe those fuckers should actually respect the laws they put in place.
>>1469338-5 cents, esl shill might have to eat shit if you keep not responding to him
>>1469340>esl shill might have to eat shit>what Nick Fuentes said about JD Weird'Might'...?! /s
>>1469338The former scenario only exists in your head.
here esl shill goes yo
>>1469178>EU: We want to read everyones emails>Local schizo coming down from a tranny goon session: AHHHHH EVERYONE WILL KNOW I LOVE TRANNYS PRIVACY MUST BE UPHELD>Trump: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/ice-high-tech-surveillance-lower-privacy-guardrails-00705401>Local schizo unwinding from a grindr meetup: this is fine, spy on me daddy
The former scenario exists here >>1469015The duality of the hypocrite.
>>1469337>Free speech for me but not for theeFirst, someone can't take a joke. And second, tell that to the Norwegian who was banned from entering because he has le funny vance face pics. Also love your unconscious of guilt by preemptively denying you're authoritarian. Which you are.
>>1469363>unconscious of guiltPart of the visa application process is denouncing totalitarianism. If they didn't do that, that's visa fraud and the visa is revoked. I don't care if a europoor is deported for unfunny memes.
>'it's not totes totalitarianism when my favored regime is being terroristic, guys!'>'I don't care about those who I subjectively consider to be 'terrorists' because they may have wrong opinions about Charlie Kirk!'The duality of the hypocrite.
>>1469366Also we're not allowed to joke about him getting team killed.Just ignore the years of conservatives mocking and lying about how George Floyd was murdered.
>>1469178>>1469181>unfairly target U.S. tech giants with burdensome regulation.This is thebit that stands out to me the most and points to why they tried to pull this. Those poor poor tech oligarchs need as much protection as we can give them!>he's brown though!!! Ohh yeah, that's what we should pay most attention to!
>>1469337Chatlie Kirk justified the death of Charlie Kirk. I don't know if it was the dipshit kid or a glowie agent, but they should have been lauded as a hero.
>>1469188I know, Obama and his husband did a great job serving the country. Also cocks. I don't know about the husband wearing a dress, that seemed weird.
>>1469463it's weird how obsessed the right is with democrat cock
>>1469393>>he's brown though!!!It's browns that want the regulation anon. Arabs are trying to colonize the west with the help of communist jews.The UK is the future of the US if Trump doesn't start embracing ethnonationalism.
>The UK is the futureI'm sure Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appreciates the compliment, and will dispense with the past that was Trump's Untied State of Ass and will be a close ally of the United States of America with a Democrat president.
>>1469214The UK are fining 4chan because they're insufferable poms that think they still run the world. The EU going after Facebook and Google is an entire different matter, they have a physical presence on their clay.
>>1469178Trump must start sending those corrupt judges right to Guantanamo.
