EU
Macron Asks Trump to Lift Visa Ban on Censorship Law Architect
Macron is asking Washington to welcome back the architect of the law that got X fined.
X Challenges EU’s $140 Million Digital Services Act Fine in Court
No outside arbiter, no independent review, no appeal before the fine lands; just the Commission, its definitions, and a $140 million bill. X is pushing back.
EU Defends Censorship Law While Commission Staff Shift to Auto-Deleting Signal Messages
Brussels is pursuing Chat Control to surveil private communications while its own enforcers retreat deeper into encrypted, self-destructing ones.
US Plans freedom.gov Website to Host Content Banned by EU and UK Censorship Laws
The portal is Washington’s opening move in a direct confrontation with European governments over who gets to decide what their citizens can read.
Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen Defend Expanded Speech Controls
The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe’s most ambitious censorship regime.
New Hampshire Revives Speech Shield Bill as Congress Targets EU Censorship Pressure
State lawmakers are racing to harden speech protections as Congress warns that Europe is already rewriting the rules for what Americans are allowed to say online.
EU Law Could Extend Scanning of Private Messages Until 2027
By extending Chat Control while calling it restraint, the Parliament treats permanent surveillance as the new baseline.
Massive TikTok Fine Threat Advances Europe’s Digital ID Agenda
Europe’s TikTok case treats “addiction” as the rationale, but age verification is the real infrastructure.
EU Targets VPNs as Age Checks Expand
European policymakers are treating VPN adoption as behavior to be contained.
Capitol Hill Hears the Cost of Speaking Freely Online in Europe
In Washington, they watched a continent trade liberty for censorship and call it progress. Now, that threat is coming across the Atlantic in the form of online censorship laws.
EU Records Reveal Absurd Justifications for $150 Million Fine Against X
The EU turned a Donald Duck parody and a blue checkmark into evidence of systemic harm, and somehow made it sound official.
EU Targets X (Again) in Grok AI Probe
Another week, another threat from Brussels aimed squarely across the Atlantic.