Free speech advocates are urging Congress to take action to protect Americans from the European Union’s “censorship regime.”  The House Judiciary Committee will hear testimony on Wednesday about the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which empowers the European Commission to impose significant financial penalties on tech companies they say are not doing enough to combat so-called disinformation. In some circumstances, American tax companies could be fined up to six percent of their global revenue if they violate certain conditions.  “Europe wants to be the global leader in censorship,” wrote the Alliance Defending Freedom International’s Lorcán Price in written testimony shared with The Daily Wire. “Its obsession with harmonization and regulation is at odds with the values of free speech and a free press. Those are universal human freedoms as well as traditional European values, but increasingly they are treated by some as a social ill that should be purged from enlightened society.” Price’s written testimony noted that the Digital Services Act empowered private organizations to be used to monitor speech rules and that the steep fines would lead to companies proactively censoring content.  “When 6% of your global revenue is at stake, complying with speech codes is never voluntary. And now that the DSA is mandatory and additional add-ons are coming, American companies will be, at best, forced to stop innovating and start policing speech,” Price wrote.  Others who will testify before the House Judiciary Committee include British Member of Parliament Nigel Farage and App Association President Morgan Reed.  Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Jeremy Tedesco said on a background call on the hearing that Congress should try to create incentives to encourage companies to promote and protect free speech. He also praised the committee for drawing attention to the issue of European censorship.  “Our speech could be deleted without you knowing it, and certainly, without you understanding the reasons for it. I mean, most of the censorship under the DSA happens behind the veil,” Tedesco told The Daily Wire.  During COVID, he noted that the European Union was a major force pressuring companies to restrict speech critical of masking and other COVID measures, leading to hundreds of thousands of posts being deleted and accounts suspended.  Just months before the 2024 presidential election, EU industry chief Thierry Breton threatened Elon Musk before he interviewed President Donald Trump on X. Breton told Musk that he must comply with regulations put in place by the Digital Services Act.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro debated retirement and Social Security on CNN on Tuesday night, explaining to his fellow panelists how Social Security is on a path to bankruptcy. During a roundtable discussion on CNN’s “News Night with Abby Phillip,” Shapiro defended his stance that the government should not hand out Social Security checks for people to retire at 65 years old. The Daily Wire host warned that if the government does not raise the retirement age, “We will go bankrupt.” “Women are living to 85 if they make it to 65, men are living to 83 if they make it to 65 — that’s 20 years on the public dime,” Shapiro added. Phillip argued that Social Security is a system in which Americans “pay into” to receive that money back at retirement. “Well no,” Shapiro replied, adding, “I promise you the amount that people are taking out is not the amount that is going in, which is why we are going bankrupt.” “Okay, but it’s not the government just handing out a blank check,” Phillip said. “People pay into the Social Security system.” “No, it’s the government borrowing money … you pay in X dollars and then you get multiple times X dollars when you retire,” Shapiro replied. “That is how the system works. It is not a lockbox as what Al Gore was arguing about in 2000.” .@benshapiro teaching @CNN panelists how Social Security works is the video you didn’t know you needed? pic.twitter.com/W54BsyPYKp — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 3, 2025 Ana Kasparian, host of the leftist show, “The Young Turks,” shot back at Shapiro, saying, “I completely reject what you just said about how we’re going bankrupt through Social Security. Really? You don’t think the trillions of dollars we’ve spent on wars in the Middle East might have something to do with that?” “That is not even remotely a percentage of what we spend on Social Security,” Shapiro replied. “We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Israel, on Ukraine. I mean, honestly, these foreign conflicts have a lot more to do with our national debt as opposed to us paying into [Social Security],” Kasparian added. “That is just untrue,” Shapiro fired back. In 2024, Social Security accounted for 21% of the federal budget, totaling $1.5 trillion. Defense spending, meanwhile, made up 13% of the budget, or $872 billion. Less than 1% of the budget was allocated to international programs, including humanitarian aid. By far, the most significant portion of the federal budget in 2024 was allocated to health insurance (24%) and Social Security. .@AnaKasparian suggests military spending drives debt more than Social Security:@benshapiro: That’s not even REMOTELY a percentage of what we spend on Social Security.@ScottJenningsKY: You think Israel is a bigger portion of our budget than Social Security? pic.twitter.com/FbD18tnGnP — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 3, 2025

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Europe regulates, America innovates. It’s a popular meme on social media, and thanks to our Change-Agent-In-Chief, President Trump, we can add to that: Trump dominates. The president’s recent executive actions to reverse discriminatory regulations and “non-tariff barriers” aimed at U.S. tech giants, not to mention snarky comments on free speech, have changed the game on how far-reaching European […]

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