Jeremy Tedesco
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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.
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