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- 原计划上周推出的项目被推迟
- 门户网站团队成员包括前DOGE成员科里斯廷
- 官员们讨论了纳入VPN功能
华盛顿，2月18日（路透社） – 三位熟悉该计划的消息人士透露，美国国务院正在开发一个在线门户网站，将使欧洲及其他地区的人们能够查看其政府禁止的内容，包括所谓的仇恨言论和恐怖主义宣传。华盛顿方面认为此举是应对审查制度的一种方式。
消息人士称，该网站将托管在“freedom.gov”域名下。一位消息人士表示，官员们曾讨论纳入虚拟专用网络（VPN）功能，使用户的网络流量看起来源自美国，并补充说用户在该网站上的活动不会被追踪。
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该项目由主管公共外交的副部长萨拉·罗杰斯领导，原计划在上周的慕尼黑安全会议上公布，但被推迟，消息人士称。
路透社无法确定为何未按计划发布。但两位消息人士表示，包括律师在内的一些国务院官员对该计划提出了担忧，不过未详细说明具体顾虑。
该项目可能进一步加剧特朗普政府与欧洲传统盟友的紧张关系，而双方的紧张关系已因贸易争端、俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争以及特朗普总统推动对格陵兰岛控制权的争夺而加剧。
该门户网站也可能使华盛顿处于一个不寻常的境地——似乎在鼓励公民无视当地法律。
国务院发言人在向路透社发表的声明中表示，美国政府没有针对欧洲的特定审查规避计划，但补充道：“数字自由是国务院的优先事项，这包括隐私和审查规避技术（如VPN）的推广。”
发言人否认任何宣布被推迟，并表示称国务院律师提出担忧的说法是不准确的。
特朗普政府将言论自由，尤其是其认为在线保守派声音受到压制的情况，作为其外交政策的重点，包括在欧洲和巴西。
欧洲对言论自由的看法与美国不同，美国宪法几乎保护所有表达。欧盟的言论限制源于防止极端主义宣传死灰复燃的努力，这些宣传曾助长了纳粹主义，包括对犹太人、外国人及少数群体的诽谤。
美国官员谴责欧盟政策，称其压制右翼政客（包括在罗马尼亚、德国和法国），并声称欧盟《数字服务法》和英国《在线安全法》等规定限制了言论自由。
欧盟驻华盛顿代表团（相当于27国集团的大使馆）未立即回应就美国计划置评的请求。
欧盟自2008年以来实施的一系列规则、法律和决定中，对社交媒体和大型平台（如Meta（META.O）旗下的Facebook和X）施加了最严格的限制。这些平台需删除或快速移除被归类为非法仇恨言论、恐怖主义宣传或有害虚假信息的内容。
与欧洲监管机构的摩擦
国务院的罗杰斯成为特朗普政府在欧盟内容政策立场的直言不讳的倡导者。自10月上任以来，她已访问了六个以上的欧洲国家，并会见了美国政府称受到压迫的右翼团体代表。国务院未安排罗杰斯接受采访。
特朗普政府在12月发布的《国家安全战略》中警告称，由于移民政策，欧洲正面临“文明擦除”。该战略称，美国将优先“培养对欧洲当前发展轨迹的抵抗情绪”。
欧盟监管机构经常要求美国本土网站删除内容，并可能在万不得已时实施禁令。特朗普盟友埃隆·马斯克旗下的X平台在12月因未遵守规定被处以1.2亿欧元罚款。
例如，德国在2024年发出了482项删除令，要求移除其认为支持或煽动恐怖主义的内容，并迫使服务提供商删除了16,771条内容。
同样，Meta的监督委员会在2024年下令删除波兰某政党的帖子，这些帖子使用种族歧视言论并将移民描绘为强奸犯，而欧盟法律将此类内容视为非法仇恨言论。
前国务院官员肯尼思·普罗普（Kenneth Propp）表示，美国计划“直接挑战欧洲的规则和法律”。普罗普曾参与制定欧洲数字法规，目前就职于大西洋理事会欧洲中心。他认为，“freedom.gov”网站在欧洲会被视为美国试图破坏国家法律规定的努力。
两位消息人士称，参与美国门户网站项目的还有爱德华·科里斯廷（Edward Coristine），他曾是马斯克削减职位的“政府效率部”成员。路透社未能联系到科里斯廷置评。
目前尚不清楚美国政府门户网站能为用户提供哪些商业VPN无法提供的优势。
根据联邦注册机构get.gov的信息，“freedom.gov”域名于1月12日注册。周三，该网站尚未有内容，但显示了“国家设计工作室”的标志、“飞吧，雄鹰，飞”的标语以及登录表单。
在特朗普第二任期之前，美国政府曾资助商业VPN和其他工具，作为在全球推广民主和帮助用户获取中国、伊朗、俄罗斯、白俄罗斯、古巴、缅甸等国家自由信息的一部分。
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Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
February 18, 2026 8:56 PM UTC / Reuters
By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery
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- Launch planned for last week was delayed
- Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine
- Officials discussed including a VPN function
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said.
The site will be hosted at “freedom.gov,” the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user’s traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked.
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Headed by Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, the project was expected to be unveiled at last week’s Munich Security Conference but was delayed, the sources said.
Reuters could not determine why the launch did not happen, but some State Department officials, including lawyers, have raised concerns about the plan, two of the sources said, without detailing the concerns.
The project could further strain ties between the Trump administration and traditional U.S. allies in Europe, already heightened by disputes over trade, Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s push to assert control over Greenland.
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The portal could also put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.
In a statement to Reuters, a State Department spokesperson said the U.S. government does not have a censorship-circumvention program specific to Europe but added: “Digital freedom is a priority for the State Department, however, and that includes the proliferation of privacy and censorship-circumvention technologies like VPNs.”
The spokesperson denied any announcement had been delayed and said it was inaccurate that State Department lawyers had raised concerns.
The Trump administration has made free speech, particularly what it sees as the stifling of conservative voices online, a focus of its foreign policy including in Europe and in Brazil.
Europe’s approach to free speech differs from the U.S., where the Constitution protects virtually all expression. The European Union’s limits grew from efforts to fight any resurgence of extremist propaganda that fueled Nazism including its vilification of Jews, foreigners and minorities.
U.S. officials have denounced EU policies that they say are suppressing right-wing politicians, including in Romania, Germany and France, and have claimed rules like the EU’s Digital Services Act and Britain’s Online Safety Act limit free speech.
The EU delegation in Washington, which acts like an embassy for the 27-country bloc, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the U.S. plan.
In rules that fall most heavily on social media sites and large platforms like Meta’s (META.O), opens new tab Facebook and X, the EU restricts the availability — and in some cases requires rapid removal — of content classified as illegal hate speech, terrorist propaganda or harmful disinformation under a group of rules, laws and decisions since 2008.
FRICTION WITH EUROPEAN REGULATORS
Rogers of the State Department has emerged as an outspoken advocate of the Trump administration position on EU content policies. She has visited more than half a dozen European countries since taking office in October and met with representatives of right-wing groups that the administration says are being oppressed. The department did not make Rogers available for an interview.
In a National Security Strategy published in December, the Trump administration warned that Europe faced [“civilisational erasure”] because of its migration policies. It said the U.S. would prioritize “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.”
EU regulators regularly require U.S.-based sites to remove content and can impose bans as a measure of last resort. X, which is owned by Trump ally Elon Musk, was hit with a 120 million-euro fine in December for noncompliance.
Germany, for example, in 2024 issued 482 removal orders for material it deemed supported or incited terrorism and forced providers to take down 16,771 pieces of content.
Similarly, Meta’s oversight board in 2024 ordered the removal of a Polish political party’s posts that used a racial slur and depicted immigrants as rapists, a content category EU law treats as illegal hate speech.
Calling the U.S. plan “a direct shot” at European rules and laws, former State Department official Kenneth Propp, who worked on European digital regulations and is now at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, said freedom.gov “would be perceived in Europe as a U.S. effort to frustrate national law provisions.”
Also involved in the U.S. portal effort is Edward Coristine, a former member of Musk’s job-slashing Department of Government Efficiency, two sources said. Coristine works with the National Design Studio, created by Trump to beautify government websites. Reuters was unable to reach Coristine for comment.
It was not clear what advantages the U.S. government portal would offer users that are not available from commercial VPNs.
The web address freedom.gov was registered on January 12, according to the federal registry get.gov. On Wednesday, the site had no content but showed the National Design Studio’s logo, the words “fly, eagle, fly” and a log-in form.
Before Trump’s second term, the U.S. government helped fund commercial VPNs and other tools as part of efforts to promote democracy globally and help users access free information in China, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Myanmar and other countries.
Reporting by Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery; Additional reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Paris; Editing by Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman
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