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Posted on 08/09/2025 5:32:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a lobbying campaign against the EU’s Digital Services Act. With this step, Americans have become the last line of defense for the free speech rights of EU citizens.
If, in the past, President Donald Trump often spoke of the European Union as “a tough nut to crack,” he couldn’t have been more accurate. Freedom-loving EU citizens know exactly what he meant. In Brussels, a bizarre mélange of control fetishism, economic dirigisme, and isolation from the outside world has developed -- a combination that is no longer tolerable.
Not least, Brussels’s fight against free expression in the digital sphere has revealed the true intentions of the von der Leyen Commission: the recovery of narrative dominance and control over political dissidence -- achieved by cold-bloodedly sacrificing citizens’ fundamental freedoms.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance already issued multiple warnings in the spring about a European censorship empire. In a speech to the Senate, he denounced European digital legislation as an attack on western liberties. In his address at the Munich Security Conference, he went so far as to suggest cutting ties with the Europeans if they did not reverse their illiberal, dictatorial trajectory.
Criticism Bounces Off
As usual, American criticism fell on deaf ears in Brussels. Although Brussels swallowed the bitter pill of an asymmetrical trade deal with the U.S. two weeks ago, both the hidden protectionism disguised as climate regulation and harmonization standards, as well as the repressive digital laws, remain intact. This is detrimental not only to free speech among Europeans but also for American companies -- undoubtedly a key target of the EU censors.
The EU’s discriminatory ambitions through the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the corresponding Digital Markets Act (DMA) primarily target U.S. communication platforms like X, Telegram, and Meta.
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“It seems that Americans, even before EU citizens, have finally lost patience with Brussels.”
Brussels hould be erased from the map!
Europe has to get rid of free speech so the Muslims don’t have to do it when they take over.
I think the headline on this article understates the seriousness of the issue. I would change it to:
The U.S. Intervenes Against EU Digital Control
Everything you hear from the proponents of things like the Digital Services Act or Digital Markets Act about their good intentions is propaganda.
This is all about government coercion of what the general population is allowed to express in the public square. Express an opinion that does not conform with the approved narrative and bang! Your credit cards and bank account are frozen. That is where all this is going.
I think China might already have something very close to this in place already.
Thank God the Trump administration is making an issue of this to prevent it from happening here down the road.
Somehow I don't think a Democrat administration would. In fact, they might even try to pull the same stunt.
Bkmk
I wonder what would happen if an American citizen traveling in Europe made some comments on X or Facebook that the Eurofascists deemed to be criminal, and ended up getting arrested.
I posted this article on X in the hope that Europeans would see it.
“Freedom loving eu citizens.......”. HUH? They may “ love it” but surely don’t have much of it.
How would they know where the poster was?
If’n the Euros just used Etch-a-Sketch instead of the net there wouldn’t be any problems.
"1984" is an instruction manual for the EU.
Less PDJT, we were headed there pretty quickly. Now if all the deepers can be ferreted out and dealt with............
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