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Posted By: Elljay, 6/26/2025 8:28:38 AM

On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump signed an executive order: “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The bad old days of the “censorship-industrial complex,” allegedly responsible for suppressing online speech under President Joe Biden, were over. Except they weren’t. The driving force behind online censorship had never been the U.S. government, which meant that freedom of speech could not be restored by the stroke of a president’s pen. Rather, the European Union has wielded its Digital Services Act (DSA) to restrict the speech not just of Europeans but especially of Americans and other English-speakers.

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Germany up to no good again, leading the E.U. charge against free speech, including American free speech. Time to push back hard.

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Posted by Elljay 6/26/2025 8:28:38 AM Post Reply
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