Below is my column in The Hill on the move by the Trump Administration against five leading figures in the European censorship movement, including Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy. The United States is finally responding to what is an existential threat to American values. It is worth noting, as I discuss in my new book, Rage and the Republic, that the EU is not only exporting its censorship rules but threatening American companies that do not meet its environment, social and governance (ESG) policies. It is time for Congress to follow suit and get into this fight.
Here is the column:
“We are the free world now.” Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration did what no prior administration has ever done — stand up to Europe to defend the freedom of speech.
This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio barred five figures closely associated with European censorship efforts from traveling to the U.S. This includes Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy.
In a post on X, Rubio declared that the U.S. “will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship” and will target “leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States.”
Breton achieved infamy as one of the architects of the massive EU censorship system, which is now being globalized. Armed with the notorious Digital Services Act, Breton and others threatened American companies and officials that they would have to yield to European standards of free speech. After Breton learned that Musk was planning to interview Trump before the last presidential election, he even warned the X owner that he would be “monitored” and potentially subject to EU fines.
Socialist Glucksmann is now irate at “this scandalous sanction against Thierry Breton.”
“We are Europeans,” he declared. “We must defend our laws, our principles, our interests.” In other words, this is a war over whether Europe or the U.S. Constitution will dictate the scope of free speech for American companies and citizens.
Breton and his colleagues are finally being treated as what they are: a clear and present danger to the “indispensable right” that defines all Americans.
The EU has been enlisted by anti-free speech figures in the U.S. to force companies like X and Facebook to restore censorship of Americans. After Musk bought Twitter with a pledge to restore free-speech protections, Hillary Clinton called upon European officials to force him to censor under Europe’s Digital Services Act.
Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the U.S., which she described as a global threat.
The E.U. enthusiastically took up the challenge. This year, I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, which boosted the slogan, “A New World Order with European Values.” Bill and Hillary Clinton and other Americans cheered on the European efforts.
The Digital Services Act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” When it was passed over the condemnations of many of us in the free speech community, European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore — that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”
It is indeed a “real thing.” In my forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, I discuss the challenges facing our republic in the 21st century, including the EU and its transnational governance model. Many on the left are supporting the erosion of national laws and values in favor of standards set by global experts and elites.
This cadre of American enablers has been increasingly vocal in Europe. Notably, late-night ABC host Jimmy Kimmel delivered a Christmas Eve address in Great Britain denouncing the U.S. as a global threat. He declared that “from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming over here.”
It was crushingly ironic. Many of us have been writing for years about how free speech has been eviscerated in the United Kingdom, where people are being prosecuted for “toxic ideologies” and an ever-lengthening list of unacceptable political viewpoints.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued a warning this week about the collapse of free speech in the United Kingdom. Yet that is where a comedian, who is paid millions and attacks Trump and conservatives nightly, went to complain about the threat to free speech in the U.S.
Both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary Rubio have delivered major speeches warning the EU about its effort to export censorship systems, particularly targeting American citizens and companies. After years of encouragement and enabling from the Obama and Biden administrations, the U.S. government is finally in this fight.
That is why Europe is up in arms, denouncing the move to bar these officials as an attack on its own sovereignty. In other words, an effort to defend our own free speech values is a threat to the proclaimed “New World Order with European Values.”
In reality, I do not like travel bans. I prefer that these figures come to this country and face free-speech advocates. Yet despite our calls for Congress to get into this fight, it has done nothing due to opposition from Democratic members. We cannot wait as the EU weaponizes and globalizes censorship.
Glucksmann is right about one thing. This is a fight over who today can be rightfully called the “free world.” In the U.S., we continue to cling to the quaint notion that the free world should be based on … well, freedom.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the forthcoming “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution” on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
Very strict free speech is a political philosophy that has it’s pluses and minuses. The EU is not wrong in taking a different approach, just different. Europe got destroyed because they let Hitler have free speech and they don’t want it to happen again. The US is learning that hard lesson now. The US has no business telling the EU what free speech laws they can have.
Cannibals are “not wrong in taking a different approach, just different.”
Cannibalism: Try it with A1 Steak Sauce
(A1 Steak Sauce – American 1st Amendment Steak Sauce)
Although it was originally created in England for King George IV and later made popular in the U.S..
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What goes around the Table, comes around the Table.
What goes around on the Table, stays on the Table.
Exactly.
And the EU has no business sanctioning Americans’ speech. Europe still needs America more than America needs Europe. That equation has not changed since September 1, 1939.
Could the free world be expanded if the Ukrainians had… well, freedom?
Only if all those military aged male Ukrainians who fled their own country would go back to their own country, enlist in the military and fight for their own country.
‘Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the U.S., which she described as a global threat.’
That says it all – the modern left are part of that globalist regime that enjoys a level of interconnectedness that would have made past tyrants giddy, she didn’t go there to stand up for or represent our values or our laws. She is emblematic of the entire apparatus. Many of us were well aware of this at the time – we held on by the slenderest of thread in 2024. 2026 is even more important.
Bravo to Rubio, and bravo to the Professor for this excellent piece.
The EU has been doing a pretty good job of standing up to Russian tyranny and oppression, of which censorship is a huge part.
The EU is standing up to Russian tyranny and oppression? Are you kidding me? The EU is permitting Ukraine to die a slow death under Russian aggression and is seemingly oblivious to the notion that the eastern part of their Union will be eaten next by the Russian bear.
I’m with X, defending “Free Speech” while the administration threatens broadcasters only resonates with MAGA. As a conservative blogger speaking out against Trump, I’m labeled with TDS. Of course with JFK jr., there is no vaccine for my condition. Hopefully, I will not be sent to Central America as a cure.
Liberals, aka fascists, tend to not want to debate since their ideas and policies can’t stand in the light of day.
Liberals, aka fascists, favor censorship since their ideas and policies are actually very unpopular. These same people favor boycotting networks kike Fox in order to shut them down while conservatives just change the channel.
Liberals demand censorship by the government as Scary Poppins did before it came to the public’s knowledge and she was forced to leave the country.
Liberals like CBS covered the fraud in MN up to June 2024 and then didn’t run a story again until November 19th. Think about what was happening between June and November last year. Hint, it involves an election and a MN governor.
MSNOW and CNN have not covered the fraud in MN as millions upon millions of dollars are being discovered as having been stolen from NEEDY people and tax payers. The act of omission is just the flip side of the left’s censorship. They spike stories they don’t like as they amplify stories they do like.
How many times are you going to keep repost that idiotic screed?
Hate the truth?
Hullbobby doesn’t know what a fascist is. It seems he’s projecting what most Republicans in congress are doing now.
“ MSNOW and CNN have not covered the fraud in MN as millions upon millions of dollars are being discovered as having been stolen from NEEDY people and tax payers.”
They have covered it. Plenty of it. What you are whining about is tag they have not covered it as much as YOU would like. Hey Fox News is covering it almost 24/7.
Republicans don’t want to debate their ideas because they are not popular or they don’t have any. That is why they prefer distractions like the fraud you brought up. Because it avoids discussion of the fact that they have don’t have any good ideas and they are facing problems with their economic policies, policies that are not working. Keep in mind that Republicans are the ones in power on both houses of Congress. What policies have they debated? What ideas have they put forth to fix the stagnant economy? Building more data centers? How are they addressing the increases in electricity prices, beef, groceries? So far it’s been all about Blaming Biden.
Only you george
That is why they prefer distractions like the fraud you brought up.
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So you support stealing from the American taxpayer.
Says a lot about you.
Inflation was 2.7% in November. Real GDP, adjusted for inflation, was 4.3%. Gasoline prices are falling.
The Democrat Party under Biden imported tens of millions of illegal and legal immigrants for numerous reasons, chief among them was to create a labor surplus to keep wages for Americans from rising, and to inflate the costs Americans must pay for housing, education, and healthcare.
Whatever blame Biden gets for the catastrophic economic disaster he and Obama created is not nearly enough.
Trump and Nancy were complicit in the CARES Act in 2020 that led to all the inflation. Shutting down whole industries and paying people not to work led to the George Floyd riots. BLM was a pure protection racket and the entire Covid response was pure graft.
CBS covered it up until June 2024 and then didn’t cover it again until November 19th 2024. Any comment on why that would be?
If you think that MSNOW and CNN are covering the story you are delusional. Jake Tapper complains about randos yelling at Tim Walz and yet he hasn’t mentioned the fraud once. That is CNN and that is how you lie.
Hullbobby, you are still stuck on the idea that they are supposed to cover it 24/7 like Fox News. However there are other important stories out there besides what MAGA only wants to hear.
They did cover the story like every news organization did. Then the news cycle gets taken over by the next sensational story that Trump creates with his meandering rants or actions.
“How are they addressing . . .”
There’s your daily lie-by-omission.
What did you omit? Gas, a significant portion of a person’s budget, down some 40%.
Make that plural lies: Mortgage rates are down some 25%.
“That is why they prefer distractions like the fraud you brought up.” You think stealing $9 billion from the $18 billion budgeted by the state for Medicaid, education, and feeding needy children is a “distraction”? Why don’t you tell us how much needs to be stolen before it becomes a real concern for you.
@hullbobby
Additionally, they (the EU, the UN, et. al.) are 21st century colonialists, so very much more egregious than past regimes. The levels of irony in all of it simply break the scales. ‘Fascist’ is very much applicable.
“ Fascist’ is very much applicable.”
LOL! No it’s not applicable. But if it were that would make Hullbobby a member of ANTIFA. They are anti-fascists after all.
Part of the history of Europe, spanning many centuries, is that European sovereigns have a long and ugly history of going to war against each other. While we were told NATO was necessary to provide a bullwark against Soviet aggression, I’ve long believed another reason for NATO – perhaps even the real primary reason – was to get the Europeans on the same side to stop THEM from going to war and killing each other.
Now they’ve evolved into this top down, centralized Soviet-like bureaucratic mess in the EU that oppresses viewpoints it sees as a threat to their power. You can’t treat the masses like pets by oppressing their free expression. Eventually, it prompts a reaction like Brexit or the rise of political parties that value free expression. Those seeking to preserve the status quo can use slurs like “far right” or “white supremacist” or whatever to try to prevent their rise, but that only dilutes the meaning of those phrases.
Even in the Soviet Union, dissidents like Solzhenitsyn were sent to hard labor camps in Siberia for years for opposing the Soviets. Knowing what happened to Solzhenitsyn could happen to them, it did not stop dissident Samizdat operations from operating in the underground. It’s a fool’s errand to try to stifle free expression.
I think we are going to have to see how this plays with the people of Europe themselves. We are, at present, mostly dealing with European Union thugs and not the people of that same union. They may yet have some say as to what happens in Europe. The right wing has serious parties in Germany, France, UK, and already has significant power in Poland, Hungary and Italy. If right wing parties pull off real victories and control then the European Union super state may crash into nothingness. Even as the US economy roars back, the European Union as an economy is falling further and further behind The major driver is Germany which has struggled mightily under the centrist parties and their green priorities as their energy costs rise and they lose manufacturing and jobs for the first time since WW 2. The Union is toppling. The only question now is how much damage they will do during their collapse.
Where the F did you come up with that BS?
Like you’re BS Ano.
GEB,
Well said and agreed. We are seeing more push back from the native born, general populace as various leftist policies continue to fail at the expense of the native born, general populace. German women afraid to go out at dark in fear of sexual assault. Bombings in Sweden. Some immigrant raped a 10-year old girl in Ireland and there were protests. German Christmas markets either have had to emplace anti-vehicle barriers to prevent more radical Islamic vehicle borne attacks. IIRC, a anti-terrorism unit in Australia in heroic fashion stopped another Bondi Beach like terror attack.
Germany commitment to green energy is driving energy costs up and businesses out of business.
“ In reality, I do not like travel bans. I prefer that these figures come to this country and face free-speech advocates.”
Oh the irony, the mealy mouthed protestations from thy professor about not liking certain things about government does that are clearly hypocritical and contrary to HIS own views is not only laughable, but contemptible. Why isn’t he pointing out the hypocrisy about banning these EU members from expressing their views here? He’s whining about the EU punishing American companies for not adhering to THEIR rules. The price of being allowed to operate within THEIR borders is to follow THEIR rules and regulations. How hard is that to understand? If the professor doesn’t like it maybe he should be advocating for these American companies to leave the EU, but we all know that they won’t do that because it’s still about making money and having the ability to exert influence. The problem is they are still bound by THEIR rules and regulations.
And, what is your point?
George
In reality, I do not like travel bans.
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So say letting MS-13 in our country is a good idea?
Talk about warped thinking.
Dustoff, that had absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Then you should have NOT posted that, yet you did george.
MEALY MOUTHED X(GEORGE)
To God, we are grasshoppers. Isaiah 40:22! do you think he gives a crap about political divisions around the world?! Dan 2:31 predicted world powers from Babylon through the final one, which has been 100% through Rome! The last one before God’s kingdom destroys it described as divided(president/congress), which has a population that are not united, like iron & clay doesn’t mix. God’s kingdom ends human gov’ts,religions,& death! Rev.21:2-5!
Two words: ABOUT TIME
wackjob!
Iraq (Babylon) has offices of many oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and BP.
Just curious, if Ms. Jankowitz appeared before the EU and urged them to declare War on America (all be it internet War), is that not a clear Act of Treason????
If/when she tries to enter the U.S. let’s hope Sec. Rubio can arrange a computer glitch or other technical difficulty so she can be detained awhile until it is resolved. Strip search with a cavity check.
“ It is worth noting, as I discuss in my new book, Rage and the Republic, that the EU is not only exporting its censorship rules but threatening American companies that do not meet its environment, social and governance (ESG) policies.”
It’s worth noting that the EU is NOT exporting its censorship rules. They are enforcing THEIR rules on American companies who wish to operate within THEIR borders. If American companies are not following THEIR rules and regulations they CAN be legally threatened with compliance violations just as we would expect foreign companies to comply with OUR rules and regulations if the want to operate here.
The EU has different standards about social media content than we do and that is entirely their right. Turley seems to believe, that the EU should be adopting OUR standards because…they are better? Nope. The professor seems awfully quiet about our president’s constant calls to pull broadcast licenses from broadcasters who are critical of him or those who mock him relentlessly. Calling for the censorship of late night TV hosts and using the FCC to force broadcasters through blackmail to cancel programs he does not like. Turley barely talks about it or mentions it in passing because it would not be…fashionable to criticize the president’s own attempts at censoring speech he doesn’t like.
Pam Bondi’s DOJ has stated that video taping ICE or any federal agents will be considered an act of domestic terrorism in an effort to silence dissent, the speech of those who are exercising their constitutional free speech activities. Turley stays quiet while hypocritically lambasting the EU for requiring American companies to adhere to THEIR rules. Perhaps the professor should grow a pair and start addressing President Trump’s own attempts at censoring his critics and protesters pointing out the unlawful acts of DHS.
How about Bari Weiss cancelling the 60 minutes segment about CECOT and the abuses, and how the Trump administration colluded with a dictator to illegally deport many men there. There are a lot of anti-free speech issues Turley doesn’t address with this administration that he wants to ignore so instead he chooses to attack the EU because it’s a more convenient distortion.
Jonathan Turley has authored or co-authored multiple books, with at least eight distinct works identified in the provided context. His most recent and notable book is The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, published in 2024. He is also the author of Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, scheduled for release in February 2026.
And how many books have you had published?
So what? That doesn’t mean he’s right on every point he argues. He bases his argument on the idea that the world should be adopting OUR free speech values despite having a president who clearly is not upholding those values. Trump and Republicans are all about free speech as long as it’s THEIR free speech. Everyone else has to abide by stricter rules and conduct THEY deem worthy of protecting. Meaning, speech that is not critical of their positions and policies. Can’t criticize Trump without getting a threat from him about letting the “radical left” get away with such dastardly filthy that is criticism.
“So what?” you ask. Exactly the point. He has a popular blog, renown law professor, interacts with powerful politicians etc. And you? What have you published? Got friends in high places? Worldwide speaking engagement? No, nothing, nada.
Your whiney screeds don’t resonate; the same jealous screed every day. You are a boring.
Popular blog? LOL! Sure if you say so. It’s only “popular” as long as he isn’t critical of MAGA or Trump.
Epstein had friends in high places and hobnobbed with people in power. If pedophiles and sex traffickers can do what Turley is..what exactly? None of that changes the fact that Turley is wrong on a lot of things. Especially when his specialty is sucking up to the elite for attention.
George
That doesn’t mean he’s right on every point he argues.
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LOL. When are you ever right george.
How is the 747 issue working out.
“They are enforcing THEIR rules on American companies who wish to operate within THEIR borders.”
Thank you Captain Obvious for repeating the same (non-judgmental) point ad nauseam.
For those who take morality and political philosophy seriously, the real point is: Are those rules right or wrong, beneficial or harmful? Do they promote or usurp individual rights and freedom?
Sam, how they set their rules is irrelevant. Turley is being a hypocrite for judging their rules against ours by criticizing their rules as anti-free speech while ignoring our own government’s attacks on free speech. He cannot talk about the Trump administration’s constant threats to shut down dissent through threats of investigations and blackmail. Turley was vehemently against such behavior when Biden was in office but now with Trump making open overt threats he is pretty quiet about it. It’s easier for him to criticize the EU because he doesn’t have to worry about the MAGA backlash and Trump’s ire. Whenever he does manage to lob some criticism towards the Trump administration or a Republican he makes sure it’s a very soft spoken, gentle, or almost dismissive criticism. Even Captain obvious would catch that.
The LEFT are National Socialists of Germany 1930’s
The only question, is when to fight them…Now or Later!
Chamberlain chose later!
Churchill chose now!! I am with Churchill.
Churchill? And what specifically fo you find so appealing about Churchill?
You mean the greatest person of the 20th century? That is who you are asking me about why I admire him?
Well I guess Churchill isn’t quite a Joe Biden or a Barak Obama, but he was still pretty good.
Dumbest question ever and a typical question by someone educated under today’s education guidelines. Imagine not understanding Winston Churchill. It is bone chilling.
Churchill had Gallipoli. That was bone chilling, too.
Unappealing person=ANON!! Same SChiff everyday!
When to fight them? You’ll need a time machine to do that.
You don’t even know what “free speech” is or what it relates to! Everything in the Constitution of the United States must relate to the Union of the States, how it is formed and assembled, how it functions, and the roles and responsibilities of the civil officers that serve to operate the government system of the States as the Union to determine the Acts and things the United States may of right do by a majority consensus of All the States in the Union.
With that being established, the free speech referred to in the first amendment must be directed to, or in regard to, the States as the Union assembled in a congress, as the States as the Union only have the power and jurisdiction to make laws that govern how the union is formed and functions, how the States interact with each other, and determine matters of collective interest to the States as the Union. The States assembled in a congress have no authority to make laws outside that limited scope. The laws of our government are laws of action that determine what the States as the Union do collectively, they are not natural or common laws which may be made under similar controls by State governments.
Remember, the first amendment starts, “Congress shall make no law”, it doesn’t establish rights, it prevents congress, the States as the Union, from establishing those rights in any respect, for or against! This is a constraint on government put on the powers of the States as the Union by the States as the Union themselves.
Is that you, Kamala?
Its just me, Tim.
With regard to speech it actually says is this, “Congress shall make no law…abrudging the freedom of speech or the press…” Your abbreviated quote doesn’t capture the essence of the right the First Amendment protects.
“Armed with the notorious Digital Service Act . . .”
Europe has a sordid history of censorship.
In the 16th century, its power-lusters censored ideas and dissent by controlling technology — the printing press. Today, European power-lusters use the same fascist technique: Censor “harmful” ideas by controlling technology — the internet.
And they use the same rationalization: It’s for your own good.
16th century huh? Quite the stretch Sam.
“Quite the stretch Sam.”
You’re right — for those whose idea of “history” is what they ate for breakfast.
Outstanding essay!
My only disagreement is that the USA shouldn’t block these anti free speech advocates from traveling here saying that they should face free speech advocates. The problem is that these people will not face free speech advocates, instead they will be escorted around the USA by our own anti free speech imbeciles helping them spread their anti free speech messages and shield them from free and open debate.
It’s a BS essay. Professor Turley’s hypocrisy knows no bounds it seems. I doubt most of the regulars here understand why Professor Turley’s argument is pure hypocrisy. He’s complaining about American companies having to abide by other countries rules to be able to operate within THEIR borders. We expect Tik Tok to abide by OUR rules in order to continue operating here, right? But American companies are not subject to theirs? Elon tried this BS in Brazil not too long ago and when he defied their Supreme Court Brazil simply shut down access to a sizable market for X. Elon was losing a lot of money and market share to competitors while he was forced to realize that if he wants to operate in other countries he must abide by their laws and rules just like we expect foreign companies to do here. What a concept, right?
X, George Costanza aka Mr Opposite misses the point once again. This contrarian weirdo compares fighting against Tik Tok being used by our chief enemy to gather information about all Americans with X and FB allowing people to speak without being censored.
It is people like X that support Hilary when she called for Europe to censor Americans and Nina Jankowitz when she decreed, or had it decreed, that this little drama class grifting fascist-like fool would be the arbiter of what constitutes proper dialog.
It is amazing how far a contrarian oddball will go to be “different” as he argues against his own rights just to be able to think he knows better.
One of my favorite quotes of the narcissistic types that have a need to be different is used by Mr X above, “I doubt most of the regulars hear understand….” This is the mindset of the undereducated, ego driven, insecure “thinkers” that believe they and only they have the answer. It is a classic liberal point, other people just don’t understand.
Is this one of your adult dialogs again? Weirdo, oddball, insecure, undereducated …
So what’s your qualifications? If judging you by nonstop insults, I’d say you’re exactly that as you describe others Weirdo, oddball, insecure, undereducated …
My 9 year old grand child visited over the holidays had more principals than you, you are a childish bore.
Most 9-year-olds have exactly one principal at their school, you self-important ignoramus.
When someone, X, comments here every day on every topic and yet never, not once, has agreed with the host, a world renowned law professor who has testified many times before congress, has worked for many news outlets and has written many acclaimed books, disagrees with 90% of the readers here, always argues against the best interest of our own land and has a penchant for picking and making the worst arguments possible makes me think he is odd.
“ When someone, X, comments here every day on every topic and yet never, not once, has agreed with the host,”
Mmm…that’s odd because I have agreed on occasion with Professor Turley. It’s still quite odd that Hullbobby still has not grasped the concept of an opposing view. Where does it say I must agree with everything the professor says or that I must post one agreement just to meet some arbitrary quota in his mind?
Calling professor Turley a hypocrite is fair since he is not exactly critical of the right’s constant attempt’s to silence dissent and the President’s constant threats to yank broadcast licenses because he doesn’t like the unflattering reporting on him. Perhaps the professor could post anonymously and save himself from the wrath of the MAGA machine and its instant outrage reflexes.
Better a BS essay, than to hear you whine. You’, not even a person, just some, just a figment of your imagination. Gotta ask, how many worldwide essays have you have disseminated?
Answer: 0.
Steve,
Well said! Would be interesting to see them accept a debate put on by The Free Press.
“Make love, not war” was once the mantra of all liberals not that long ago. Now, after the presidencies of Obama and Biden, and currently with the EU, that mantra has been debunked. Due to ever-decreasing birth rates in the West, it has been replaced by another: “Make regulations, not love.” And the key to making more regulations is to lock up tightly all venues of free speech. How else can you make their dreams of socialism come true?
In my forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution. Get it while its folks! For a mere $29.95 this bible of free speech can be yours! Hurry, hurry, hurry!
I agree, it would be nice not to have book promotions in every post.
“. . . it would be nice not to have book promotions in every post.”
My monthly subscription is free. Yours? For me, JT’s site has no ads, pop-ups, cookies. For you? (Do you even realize that JT pays to keep his blog ad free?)
Ingrate.
Then do t go to Europe.
See, that was easy.
What does traveling to Europe have to do censorship in the USA?
Wally Wally Wally… It’s not don’t go to Europe. It’s Socialist European trash don’t come to America and don’t integrate European social media into American social media platforms. If they wish to impose punitive measures on American free speech then I am sure President Trump can come up with something to offset the practice.
Christ is King Wally, hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
I thought Trump was king?
There you go trying to think again. Best leave that to people with cognitive and critical thinking abilities.
Look Wally Ballllooooon Ballloooon!
European Fascists and National Socialists are running amok, just like they did back in the 1930s. Of course, this is what Fascists and National Socialists do. It’s their nature. And, since Fascism and Socialism can’t survive in a marketplace of free ideas, Fascists like the ones running the UK, Germany, France and the EU must control and stamp out all opposing voices.
There are no European political parties called ‘national socialists” or “Fascists”. Sorry.
Just like antifa is not real.
Just like antifa are antifascist
Just like Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative
The US needs to respond aggressively to EU fascism.
Pull bases out and cut NATO funding in half
Seems your fish brain has already begun to rot.
So enlighten me Anonymous. When are the people trying to suppress speech the good guys? When are they not despicable totalitarians who should be fought to the point of “give me liberty ir give me death?”
For my purposes I am perfectly happy to gather history’s fascists, socialists, communists, kings, tsars, emperors, pashas, rajas, tribal chiefs, today’s Democrats, and some ultra-wealthy under the label of totalitarians. That’s my basket of despicables.
Who’s left then Old fish? Who is left to fry on your scale of totalitarianism? Who would perch upon your pillar of acceptance? What bait would you use to lure a prospective leader into the sea of despair we find ourselves in? Please tell us what is acceptable before you school us on the subject.
Changing your moniker to something less offensive is easy. Actual free speech is hard.
Congress fails to act to protect Americans from the EU’s effort export its censorship to the US due to opposition from the Democrat members. In the US our national socialists or fascists call themselves Democrats but they are hardly democratic. Why would any party identify itself with labels that carry such a negative connotation? it would make it difficult to dupe followers.
The current political situation in the US shows that Fascism and Socialism can survive and take over in a marketplace of free ideas.