Sarah B. Rogers
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
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That's pretty much it.
And so the UK has decided that 4chan is not allowed to exist unless it pays a bunch of money to the United Kingdom for not policing its speech in accord with UK laws, the numerous UK speech statutes that led to prison sentences like the one I just discussed.
But there was a large fine handed down during my recent European tour against X, and I believe it was 140 million euros, but that might be dollars.
Look, I can't speak for the UK regulators, but I can make inferences.
Yeah, what's your inference?
X has a particular political valence.
We saw Joe Biden after Elon acquired Twitter saying, you know, we've got to find ways to go after him.
And I think that sentiment might be shared.
But as an undersecretary of state, I'm not an advocate for one American company or even one American viewpoint on the free speech issue.
If any American company were fined, let's say $140 million even, by a foreign power for upholding the American First Amendment, if General Motors were treated that way, the U.S.
government would have something to say about it.
I also think that X is not the first company to be fined under EU digital regulations.
So there's an infographic that circulated recently comparing revenues raised within the EU through other metrics and then revenues raised just by fining American tech companies.
And there's a suspicion that this is really kind of a de facto tax and pretexts are contrived for fining large American tech companies in order to raise revenue.
Right, exactly.
I've referred to the DSA before as a censorship tariff because the cost of maintaining the censorship apparatus under the DSA is intentionally levied on specific companies, mostly American ones.
that are subject to higher and more intricate regulatory standards than other companies are.
And EU regulators say, well, that's not because they're American, that's because they're large.
But the fact that they're American and not European surely makes them easier as a political proposition to tax.
And so a lot of Americans see this as a tax.
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