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Reason
Reason
Politics
J.D. Tuccille

E.U.'s Digital Services Act Threatens Americans' Free Speech

Thierry Breton, one of the European Union's more obnoxious bureaucrats, is visiting social media companies in the U.S. to check on their readiness to comply with a controversial—indeed, deeply troubling—new E.U. law regulating online content. That law commits private firms to apply E.U. rules to broadly defined "illegal content" and whatever officials consider to be "disinformation."

While they probably won't do it, tech company executives should tell Breton to get lost and work to insulate themselves from Europe's control freaks.

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