Jeremy Tedesco
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And it's not just X.
You know, Meta and other U.S.
companies like Google, they're in the crosshairs as well.
Every one of these platforms that control speech in the digital public square are squarely in the crosshairs of what the European Commission is trying to accomplish.
Well, the Trump administration has been great on this issue.
In fact, the Republicans have been doing a great job on it over the last few years.
Marco Rubio, Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers,
even President Trump and J.D.
Vance, so many others, have made it very clear that these attempts by the European Union to control and penalize American companies for standing up for free speech are things they're not going to tolerate.
Now, what shape and form the administration is going to, you know, engage in, you know, trying to push back on that, we don't necessarily know what that's going to be yet.
But they have definitely clearly communicated that
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.