Jeremy Tedesco

in america and that's because the dsa exists in the u s is intent on enforcing it against american companies in ways that harm american speech and so

But I will say some of the states in the U.S., like California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, they are adopting kind of pieces and parts of the DSA strategy in state law to try to, you know, essentially bring some of those censorship requirements or standards or outcomes that they like into American domestic law.

So our legal team is fighting back against those things.

Some great examples of that are a couple cases –

on behalf of the Babylon Bee, where they attacked what the states call deepfake laws, which are basically laws that just say you can't post satire or satirical memes in advance of an election if you're trying to impact the outcome of the election or if you negatively impact the reputation of a candidate.

I mean, those laws are clear violations of the First Amendment, and we've won those cases so far.

But look, Brussels—

which is where the EU is located, is trying to regulate American companies in a way that's inconsistent with the First Amendment.

And there are certain states in the United States that are also trying to do that as well, to control the speech that can occur on those platforms.

We at ADF are dedicated to fighting back against that global censorship, whether it's happening domestically or abroad.

Well, I'm not sure it's a minor setback, but it doesn't resolve the issue.

It would be a really great precedent to build on if he's able to win this appeal.

But even if he doesn't,

there's going to be more enforcement actions coming down the line that I think will be even closer to the heart of content moderation.

Like I said, the current investigation in FINE deals with blue check marks and research access and advertising repositories.

The next thing coming down the pike is directly related to their content moderation standards and their willingness to mitigate risk by getting rid of content that the EU doesn't like.

And so,

That will be even more front and center a free speech issue.

So, you know, this needs to be battled out in one.

I'm sure more fines will be coming against X and even other U.S.