Jeremy Tedesco

Yeah, my pleasure.

Thanks for having me on.

The Digital Services Act is the EU's attempt at global narrative control.

And that may sound broad and vague or overseas, or maybe it doesn't affect you, but it does.

Because the whole effort under the DSA, which we call the Delete, Silence, Abolish Act, is to reach out and

and regulate American tech companies and force them to regulate speech on the digital platforms where we all speak and get information and talk about the issues of the day in ways that are aligned with European bureaucrats' views of what speech is acceptable.

And that's, trust me, that is not the American standard of free speech.

It's really the polar opposite.

There's some just terrible, terrible laws and precedents in the European Union related to speech.

And the EU wants to impose those standards on the global conversation.

And they're trying to do that through American tech platforms.

So it's a worldwide speech problem that directly impacts the speech of American citizens as well.

Well, what the EU is doing right now is they're punishing Elon Musk because he decided to take a stance in 2022 to protect free speech online and on social media platforms by buying X. I mean, make no mistake, when Elon Musk bought X,

Twitter at the time, in 2022, it threw a huge wrench in the censorship aims of the European Union and so many other global censors.

Because all the other companies at that time were really bending the knee.

They were all saying, sure, we'll restrict COVID misinformation and we'll restrict hate speech and we'll start going even further down the path of censoring people's speech online.

And then Elon came in and said, no, we need to have a public square online where people can basically have the freedom

to say whatever they think without worrying about whether they're gonna be punished.

And so the EU is, bottom line, they're punishing Elon Musk and X because Elon took this stance to protect free speech in the global marketplace of ideas.

Thank God he did.