Jeremy Tedesco

So it's a worldwide speech problem that directly impacts the speech of American citizens as well.

Well, what the EU is doing right now is they're punishing Elon Musk because he decided to take a stance in 2022 to protect free speech online and on social media platforms by buying X. I mean, make no mistake, when Elon Musk bought X,

Twitter at the time, in 2022, it threw a huge wrench in the censorship aims of the European Union and so many other global censors.

Because all the other companies at that time were really bending the knee.

They were all saying, sure, we'll restrict COVID misinformation and we'll restrict hate speech and we'll start going even further down the path of censoring people's speech online.

And then Elon came in and said, no, we need to have a public square online where people can basically have the freedom

to say whatever they think without worrying about whether they're gonna be punished.

And so the EU is, bottom line, they're punishing Elon Musk and X because Elon took this stance to protect free speech in the global marketplace of ideas.

Thank God he did.

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.