Jeremy Tedesco
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that it's wrong for the EU to reach out and try to impose their speech standards on American companies in ways that harm those companies and harm American speakers.
So I think in the end, rhetorically, Elon has a very good
ally in the White House and even in the U.S.
Congress where Jim Jordan has done just tremendous work at the House Judiciary Committee doing investigative work and holding hearings on the way in which global censorship, especially inspired by the European Union and the Digital Services Act, is harming American speech and American companies.
So, yeah, I think there's a lot of really important work being done at the White House and some of the federal agencies and on the Hill to buttress what
Elon and X are trying to do in the courts.
I think the other thing that's interesting about President Trump is in some ways he started this whole problem.
The DSA really came into being for two reasons.
That's too simplistic, but it's pretty much two reasons.
Trump won in 2016 and the UK people voted to leave
the EU in 2016.
And the elites did not like that.
They couldn't understand it.
It was inexplicable to them.
And so the Digital Services Act was a response to that.
And the response was, we don't want you to be able to think for yourselves and definitely not speak your ideas because we're going to lose control.
And we don't want to lose that control.
We don't want to be questioned.
We don't want to lose our power.
And you did that to us twice in 2016 through the election of Donald Trump and the UK leaving the EU.