Jeremy Tedesco

companies.

And those companies really need to stand in the gap for their users in these cases.

You know, if they bend the knee, then everybody loses.

None of them are in a position to do it yet.

X is in the lead chair, and that's because the EU wants to punish them first.

A few years ago, Elon and X pulled out of so-called voluntary codes of conduct that the EU uses to enforce the Digital Services Act.

And so they're voluntary, so you're supposed to be allowed to get out of them if you want to.

But as soon as they left those voluntary codes, the EU started saying, you're going to pay a price for that, effectively, in the public square.

And so, you know, fast forward a couple years, you know,

That came home to roost.

$140 million fine this first go-around, and more is coming.

And so there's nothing voluntary in the EU.

They label things with the word voluntary.

But the reality is if you leave something voluntarily, they're going to fine you $140 million.

It does not.

It just means mandatory.

Yeah, I mean, I think people should talk to their legislators and tell them, we don't want anything like that in America.

I think they should encourage people like Jim Jordan and the folks on the House Judiciary Committee to continue their investigation of the EU and of the DSA and how it impacts American speech in American platforms.

I mean, I think they should reach out to the president and ask him to do everything he can to prevent the European Union from just crushing American companies and American speech through these draconian enforcement actions.

And I also think Americans shouldn't be afraid.