EU Censorship Metastasizes
Why you should care that X has been fined by the European Union.
by David Catron
December 7, 2025, 10:16 PM
From the moment Elon Musk began musing about buying Twitter in 2022, the left began warning that his pledge to restore free speech to the social media platform was a threat to democracy. To most Americans this claim had a distinctly Orwellian ring and very few voters shared the fear that the platform could be used by conservative extremists to spread “disinformation” that would present a danger to the republic. What the left really feared, of course, was that Musk would reveal that Twitter was an integral part of the censorship-by-proxy strategy used by the government to silence inconvenient speech. And their worst nightmare came true when Musk released the notorious Twitter files.
Those revelations did not, however, stop people like Hillary Clinton from continuing their quest to impose censorship on the American people. As early as April of 2022, Clinton urged the EU to beef up its censorship regime: “For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do something about it. I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it’s too late.” The EU took her advice. The Digital Services Act (DSA) was approved by the European Parliament in July of 2022.
You will doubtless be shocked to discover that the first DSA investigation targeted X.
The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers … If proven, these failures would constitute infringements of Articles 34(1), 34(2) and 35(1), 16(5) and 16(6), 25(1), 39 and 40(12) of the DSA. The Commission will now carry out an in-depth investigation as a matter of priority. The opening of formal infringement proceedings does not prejudge its outcome.more
https://spectator.org/eu-censorship-metastasizes/
