This is foreign censorship by proxy, and it’s intolerable. The First Amendment doesn’t end where Brussels gets offended. Europe can regulate its speech however it wants—but it doesn’t get to launder those rules into American discourse through corporate blackmail. When tech platforms bow to EU fines and quietly globalize censorship, Americans lose rights without a single vote cast. That’s not regulation; it’s an end run around the Constitution. Congress exists to stop exactly this kind of sovereignty erosion. If foreign governments are dictating what Americans can say online, then American lawmakers have already waited too long. Free speech doesn’t survive by accident—it survives by forceful defense.
Outstanding analysis here. The DSA loophole you identified is deeply troubling becuase it basically circumvents our constitutional protections. European regulators shouldn't have any say over what Americans can discuss online. I've been watching this unfold in tech circles and its amazing how few people realize the implications for speech sovereignty.
Great article! I did not know this about the Digital Services Act. But now that I know, it explains a lot of what I've seen happening online! We definitely need to get this changed so that Americans have and keep free speech!
The reason for this mass global censorship is that the first thing a kidnapper does is gag the victim so that they cannot sound the alarm. Give up your free speech at your peril. Once they are able to silence you, the game is over. The loss of all of your other freedoms will fall like dominos after. Anyone that advocates to censor you, or to unmask your anonymity is your adversary. Treat them like one - no matter what else they say.
But why is it so vital and necessary for the combined monolithic apparatus of government, corporations, and NGOs, to brute force censor everyone while decimating the careers and reputations of the dissenters? Here is why:
The reason the First Amendment is prime directive order 1, is because it is the most important freedom we have for the same reason it is the first target an adversary subverts, disrupts, and destroys during a crime, a war, or a takeover—preventing a target from assembling, communicating, and organizing a response to an assault grants an enormous advantage to the aggressors.
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent will be led, like sheep to the slaughter." —George Washington
The Second Amendment is second because it is the remedy for anyone trying to subvert the First.
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"The 1-A is first for a reason. The 2-A is it's twin. Together they make a bond of freedom." —S.P.H.
This is why OrangeManBad has imposed sanctions on these European censors.
Orange is my favorite color!
This is foreign censorship by proxy, and it’s intolerable. The First Amendment doesn’t end where Brussels gets offended. Europe can regulate its speech however it wants—but it doesn’t get to launder those rules into American discourse through corporate blackmail. When tech platforms bow to EU fines and quietly globalize censorship, Americans lose rights without a single vote cast. That’s not regulation; it’s an end run around the Constitution. Congress exists to stop exactly this kind of sovereignty erosion. If foreign governments are dictating what Americans can say online, then American lawmakers have already waited too long. Free speech doesn’t survive by accident—it survives by forceful defense.
Outstanding analysis here. The DSA loophole you identified is deeply troubling becuase it basically circumvents our constitutional protections. European regulators shouldn't have any say over what Americans can discuss online. I've been watching this unfold in tech circles and its amazing how few people realize the implications for speech sovereignty.
It has absolute economic impact! That is why the EU wants to harness it through censorship. They want to control the flow of money.
Great article! I did not know this about the Digital Services Act. But now that I know, it explains a lot of what I've seen happening online! We definitely need to get this changed so that Americans have and keep free speech!
First they took over our traditional media and now they go after free speech where it has fled.
The reason for this mass global censorship is that the first thing a kidnapper does is gag the victim so that they cannot sound the alarm. Give up your free speech at your peril. Once they are able to silence you, the game is over. The loss of all of your other freedoms will fall like dominos after. Anyone that advocates to censor you, or to unmask your anonymity is your adversary. Treat them like one - no matter what else they say.
But why is it so vital and necessary for the combined monolithic apparatus of government, corporations, and NGOs, to brute force censor everyone while decimating the careers and reputations of the dissenters? Here is why:
The reason the First Amendment is prime directive order 1, is because it is the most important freedom we have for the same reason it is the first target an adversary subverts, disrupts, and destroys during a crime, a war, or a takeover—preventing a target from assembling, communicating, and organizing a response to an assault grants an enormous advantage to the aggressors.
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent will be led, like sheep to the slaughter." —George Washington
The Second Amendment is second because it is the remedy for anyone trying to subvert the First.
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"The 1-A is first for a reason. The 2-A is it's twin. Together they make a bond of freedom." —S.P.H.