Jeremy Tedesco
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But he is paying a price right now for that, and it's a price that needs to matter to every single citizen of the world and American citizens as well because what the EU is trying to do by fining X $140 million –
They're trying to force them and punish them in a way that makes them comply with these draconian speech standards in the EU rather than being the speech platform that Elon promised X would be.
And so, I mean, we're in a worldwide battle over free speech.
And Elon isn't a citizen of the EU.
X isn't an EU company.
But the EU is –
dedicated to making sure that American companies comply with their speech standards or pay a dear price.
And Americans are going to pay that price in their speech if X doesn't prevail.
Yeah, that's a really important question.
In early February of this year, Axe filed a lawsuit in the General Court of the European Union.
This is the beginning of a very long court battle.
In the end, this is the first fine that was ever issued under the DSA.
This is the first lawsuit that's been filed to challenge a fine under the DSA.
And more of this is going to come.
And it's really important that Elon and X have taken the stand on this first attempt to find an American company.
I don't think we want to let the EU do this without consequence.
Look, the European Commission has multiple other investigations open.
involving X as a target.
And so there's going to be additional fines, additional findings of noncompliance coming down the pike against X. So I think it's really important for X to lodge this lawsuit.
And then if the European Commission continues, there'll probably be more lawsuits challenging further fines that come in from the European Commission.