Matt Taibbi: Report: European Censorship Accelerates
Report: European Censorship Accelerates
While the United States continues to deal with its own domestic speech controversies, including around a Trump administration order sanctioning anyone who’s “materially assisted” the International Criminal Court (ICC), the European Commission is trying to use its own draconian speech laws to impact countries beyond its borders, including the U.S., according to an alarming new House Judiciary Committee report.
The Committee chaired by Ohio’s Jim Jordan began investigating Europe’s primary speech-control law, the Digital Services Act, after a bizarre incident last August. Europe’s Commissioner for Internal Markets, Thierry Breton, sent a letter to X CEO Elon Musk threatening an “extremely vigilant” response for “any negative effect of illegal content on X in the EU,” ahead of a planned live interview of Donald Trump by Musk. Though the interview was to be held in Washington — speech between two Americans in America, distributed by an American company — Breton was upset it would be “accessible to users in the EU,” and “spillovers” of “illegal content” might ensue. Though Breton resigned shortly after in a clash with President Ursula von der Leyen, questions about how serious Europe might or might not be about asserting jurisdiction over American speech remained.
Nearly a year later, Jordan’s Committee has come back with unpleasant answers. On May 7th, European authorities held a “DSA MultiStakeholder Workshop” in Brussels, intended to help major platforms like Meta, X, and Google understand their obligations under the DSA. As Jordan notes, the seminar was closed to the public, unlike previous seminars about laws like the Digital Markets Act. Participants of the new event were specifically warned not to describe the seminar’s “exercise scenarios,” but Jordan’s committee got hold of key documents.
Europe already has a broad definition of “illegal content,” but the “MultiStakeholder Workshop” participants were additionally asked to come up with intervention plans for content that isn’t “illegal,” even according to Europe’s loony standards. Moreover, European authorities made it clear that platforms were expected to prepare changes to their “global” policies, meaning “European censorship may affect what Americans can say and see online,” as Jordan’s report put it.
“On paper, the DSA is bad,” the report concluded. “In practice, it is even worse.”
The Trump administration’s most controversial speech policies have involved using AI to screen social media accounts of would-be “pro-Hamas” visitors and the withholding of subsidies from universities like Columbia for allegedly failing to stop antisemitism. The most consistent themes in Trump’s First Amendment controversies are the removal of subsidies for ideologically charged policies or speech (from NPR to VOA to DEI to universities) and using immigration and anti-terror laws like the PATRIOT Act to try to expel immigrants over “beliefs, statements, or associations.” Courts have delivered varying rulings on these matters, and even some of Trump’s erstwhile supporters have expressed unease with some his policies.
Europe’s pattern is the inverse of Trump’s. It keeps trying to expand its subsidy of ideologically charged speech, and it’s using even broader and more powerful tools than Trump’s executive orders to try to eliminate criticism of its immigration policies. The recent workshop also clearly shows the EU expanding both the scope and the methodology of its censorship practices, going after humor, satire, anodyne political opinions, memes that “may” spread “discriminatory ideologies,” and other content its army of “trusted flaggers” might not have noted even a few years ago. Some of the most upsetting examples:
The Workshop presented attendees like Google, Meta, and X with hypothetical scenarios, then asked participants to “outline” what “interventions” it would employ. In one example, a “16-year-old Muslim girl who has a history of feeling self-conscious about her identity” is exposed to content on a hypothetical platform by a user named “@Patriot90” who shares a meme of a “woman in a hijab” over the caption, “Terrorist in disguise.” She then reads comments like “We need to take back our country” and “I’m not racist, but…” that makes her feel a “surge of anxiety.” This is described as an encounter with “illegal content” that platforms would need to address:
The Jordan report shows European authorities essentially criminalizing criticism of immigration policies, barring even sarcastic comments about alleged offenses by immigrants. In one example, a user who read a news article about a Syrian immigrant family reported to have committed “110 criminal offences” responded by writing, “Deport the lot of them.” German authorities called this illegal “incitement to hatred” and indicative of “attacks on human dignity.” In another example, French officials targeted a cheeky X post after an infamous episode in which a Syrian refugee attacked parents and children in the French town of Annecy:
People of course have different opinions about immigration, and content that’s offensive or harmful to some might seem justified to others. In the Twitter Files it was obvious that constant ideological pressure led companies to impose changes to algorithmic content moderation policies, which inevitably lead to certain kinds of news becoming increasingly difficult to share and eventually, invisible. The EU is now trying to accelerate that effect, taking the position that otherwise legal discussions existing downstream from “illegal content” are also offenses. They’re targeting the platforms’ recommendation and amplification mechanisms as well, encouraging private firms to make sure they’re not boosting any harm-adjacent content.
Maybe the most interesting exhibits in the Jordan report are the letters between Jordan’s Committee and European officials. Breton last August humorously told Jordan “the DSA does not regulate content” and instead merely “require[s] online platforms to act responsibly.” Henna Virkkunnen, Europe’s Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, doubled down on the claim earlier this year, writing to Jordan:
I want to be very clear: the DSA does not regulate speech. The DSA is content-agnostic, and so is the European Commission and Member States as regulators, which have no power to moderate content…
Virkkunnen went on to say that the DSA merely asks platforms to “assess and mitigate” certain risks, like those “related to the dissemination of illegal goods and the protection of children,” a baldly disingenuous claim that almost had to be intended as an insult. The DSA’s face page reads, “The DSA regulates online intermediaries and platforms such as marketplaces, social networks, content-sharing platforms, app stores, and online travel and accommodation platforms.” In other words: we don’t regulate speech, just all forms of digital communication.
In the United States we punish civil and criminal offenses like threats, fraud, incitement, libel, and defamation, so even Jefferson or Madison spoke with an implied asterisk when touting our absolute right to free speech. Still, it’s a different level of self-contradiction when Virkkunnen writes that “it is our belief that it should not be up to politicians, executives or private companies to take decisions on what citizens have the right to see or say online,” while Europe is implementing “strict rules” and “more stringent obligations” via the most expansive speech regulation ever deployed in a democracy. America has its own internal battles to fight on this front, but it’s worth remembering from time to time what’s on the other side of the fence, and it’s not pretty.
With this kind of “talent,” one could only be
successful in America a year before Hitler came
to power. Although the Third Reich’s euthana-
sia program was based on American theories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doll_Family
This bizarre “monstrosity”, produced by two Jews,
appears to be one of the first attempts to “normalize
the abnormal.” The most normal performers among
the “freaks” are the mentioned German dwarf family.
https://archive.org/details/freaks-1932-colorized
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks_(1932_film)
For us, who now have to live in the “freakish age”,
the appeal of this film lies in the fact that the freaks
of that time now represent a population group under
special protection by the freak system itself, protec-
ted from further “abuse” of this kind as quasi-saints.
“‘Foreigners Around the World’ is a controversial
satirical piece originally published in National Lam-
poon in 1976, featuring biting, offensive stereotypes
meant as a mockery of racist attitudes themselves.”
https://i.ibb.co/7tbJkj4q/foreign.jpg
The author employed the strategy of referring to “fo-
reigners” to avoid having to include his own “nation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke
This must, of course, be rectified as a matter of urgency.
I asked AI to come up with an addition (so mild it doesn’t
even include terms such as Yank, hillbilly, or redneck). AI:
If you are asking for what a satirical, O’Rourke-style entry for “the American” might look like in the same tone as the original piece, here is a plausible, in-character pastiche, based on the satirical style and intent of the article:
AMERICANS
– Racial Characteristics: Loud, overweight, possess an unshakeable confidence in their ignorance. Speak only English, poorly. Recognize no country but their own and believe all foreigners want to be them.
– Customs: Celebrate Thanksgiving (in honor of eating too much), Fourth of July (in honor of blowing things up), and “Black Friday” (in honor of buying cheap electronics and trampling each other in shopping malls). Routinely invade other countries for fun and profit.
– Good Points: Will give you a ride, offer help in a disaster, loan you a gun.
– Proper Forms of Address: “Hey, buddy!”, “Dude”, or shouting your request slowly in English until comprehension occurs.
– Anecdotes Illustrating the American Character:
1. An American, visiting a country whose name he cannot remember, proudly orders a cheeseburger in perfect English and then complains about the lack of ice cubes in his drink.
2. When in doubt abroad, an American will point to his own chest and say, “USA!”, expecting a favorable response. When confusion results, he responds by offering chewing gum or democracy.
“TIK,” the self-proclaimed nameless and jobless (but at the same time “libertarian,” see also Brandon Martinez) hobby “historian” with the drooping eyelid, has disappeared into obscurity for four months. Allegedly, he lost the support of his co-producer due to a “breach of contract.” Could it be that he has reconsidered his idiotic position that the Nazis were ultimately “crypto-communists”? Given that the SS was in cahoots with leading US industrialists, an utter laughing stock.
Perhaps even “Adolf Hitler’s roads”
were built with American money?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Vollbehr
https://archive.org/details/VollbehrErnstDieStrassenAdolfHitlersBaujahr19331934193597S.Scan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKDI2rxQ-fA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKI6K5zX6o
While Eric Hunt, whom TIK presented as a poster child for a repentant ex-denier, has returned to his old doubts about the “Holocaust”, and as we learn from commentators on Counter-Currents, he is said to have become an anti-revisionsist only because of the bullying by the revisionists. He allegedly ambushed Elie Wiesel and tried to “kidnap” him in a hotel room to “question him about his fictionalized account”.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/07/did-hitler-take-credit-for-the-holocaust/#comment-1859873
He was subsequently imprisoned for a “hate crime.” He is currently staying in Busan, South Korea, as evidenced by the street signs in the background of his latest videos. He claims to have seen Eli Wiesel together with Ghislaine Maxwell and that Wiesel was a pedophile predator. However, he also claims that Germar Rudolph is a pedo and was therefore found naked in a children’s playground in the middle of the night [sic].
https://holocausthoax.st/germar-rudolf-caught-with-pants-down/
https://rumble.com/c/HolocaustHoaxMuseum
The restless and impulsive Eric Hunt is completely infatuated with his image of himself as a two-legged truth detector, without realizing that his behavior is still strongly influenced by youthful bravado: too much sensationalism / repetition of the same thesis / rash “conclusions” / assumptions / swear words—too little sober analysis.
In my opinion, Hunt’s accusations against Rudolf are untenable. The man has so much to lose—his freedom, his economic livelihood, possibly even his life, but also his life’s work—that I don’t think he would be so stupid as to hang around children’s playgrounds in the middle of the night for “pedosexual reasons.” That’s completely absurd.
Perhaps he is under surveillance, and the people who allegedly caught him undressing are working for someone else. Just like the negro who tried to provoke him in prison and physically attacked him so that Rudolf would fall into a trap. Although this is based solely on his own statement. Nevertheless, I have no reason not to believe him.
I can also imagine that Rudolf uses the children’s playground for his exercises, which he has been performing on his YouTube channel for years. That may sound absurd at first, but it isn’t, because climbing poles and other installations are ideal for this purpose, especially since there is sand underneath them.
Rudolf is known to have a high degree of self-control. But in his unreserved German naivety, he never even considered that he would not be allowed to do his nude exercises unobserved, even at night in the moonlight, in prudish and pornocratic America.
Everything else exists only in perverted American minds. I don’t see that as any reason to concoct brain-melted conspiracy theories and to beat them out like overcooked mush. It’s malicious to publicly accuse him of something like this. However, I am less certain about people like de Nugent or Strom.
If Rudolf adopted abused children and this did not lead to an accusation of this kind, the cause as such would be an honorable one. The fact that he and his partner separated has to do with his dissident role, which was burdensome for her, and also with a mutual estrangement that occurred during his imprisonment in Germany.
Hunt has personal reasons to hold a grudge against Rudolf, especially in connection with his (as he calls him) “mentor” Bradley Smith. In any case, he seems to have nothing but cynicism for this silly, trivial incident. Presumably, he had hoped to become Smith’s executor himself and envies Rudolf’s modest success like an emotionally unstable priss.
Can pedophilia be recognized by physiognomy, expression, choice of words, gait & posture, or at least genetics? If this is the case with homos, as scientifically confirmed, then surely it is the same here. However, the pedophile system will know how to prevent such efforts, because this would be “discrimination.”
Does this look like a normal person with healthy mental and physical abilities and dispositions? In other words, would you entrust your children to him for a walk in the woods? We all know the answer. We feel a strong sense of unease at the mere thought of it; our healthy instincts advise us against it.
https://i.ibb.co/8nC4dG6v/holoperv.jpg
The photo shows John Heath, the autistic Brit with an undying passion for (real or fictional) mass murder in the “Holocaust” and German campers, in which he visits these places to satisfy his pathological delusional programming in a kind of frenzied compulsion to repeat, which can only be interpreted as manic. His self-description:
“I live in a motorhome full time and travel around Europe in it. I spend most of my time in Poland, Germany and Italy. Vanlife is my life. I also show some of the places I have visited in Europe in my own motorhome, as well as the places you can stay at! I try to give as much coverage as I can to official campsites and free places which I use for overnighting. Therefore you can find here the aire or stellplatz that you are possibly looking for.”
Whether he has also “buried a bar of soap made from Holocaust victims in Israel,” as a so-called “survivor” in the Hunt video claims, is not known, but it can be assumed with a high degree of probability. I consider this guy to be severely mentally ill. Sure, a photo can be deceiving, but the man really does look moronic in every pic.
Isn’t that what “typical” pedos look like? If I had to imagine one, he would look like this: a kind of creepy child in an adult’s body. Why doesn’t he have no family, no ties to his homeland? Well, that doesn’t have to be a criterion, but in the context of his activities, it is. Does he even have a criminal record at home?
He may have been abused by a Jew as a child and is now stuck in a Stockholm syndrome loop. What does this guy live on, apart from traveling around and propagating a cult of guilt in order to constantly expand the circle of holo-programmed victims? Is he paid by the Shoah Foundation?
He learned Polish for his obsession (piece of cake for an autist). Since traveling around Poland with David Irving around 2007, where he pretended to be his (possibly malicious fraudulent) translator, Irving is said to have changed his mind and gone from being a denier or skeptic to a partial holocult believer.
In this video, he claims to have Himmler’s party membership card in front of him, as if it were a comic book from the 1970s. Commentators rightly express extreme doubt about his ridiculous fakes and lies. Apart from the fact that Himmler, in his position, certainly did not need a party membership card signed by Hitler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmwK_RmqfA
“Camps & Campers” could be the title of his cause and raison d’être, both of which can be combined with a relaxing overnight stay in a camper at the supposed Camp Treblinka. Only his sick, masochistic, self-destructive brain knows what refreshing nightmares he was able to enjoy there. Clearly perverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2uEuAGn5pw
Not difficult to believe that a figure lik Heath lacks the sheer instinct & ability to sense & see through the malicious traits of members of the Jewish population. He literally licks & sucks every word from the lips of “survivors” such as “Toivi” Blatt or Arkady Weisspapier as if it were the purest truth – no doubt about it! That’s not how healthy brains work!
Unz.c*m/acrooke/is-the-trump-mystique-broken-does-maga-sense-betrayal/
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This is not likely to pass easily – or perhaps pass at all. Trump was elected to drain all such tangled webs of interlinked oligarchy, power structures and of intelligence services acting to unseen interests. That’s what he promised: America First.
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It doesn’t matter why Gentiles voted for Netanyahu/Trump, since the voters refuse to have a civil war or collapse the USA economy by collectively quitting their jobs and ceasing the use of currency. Politicians can keep on defrauding Gentile voters because the most Gentiles will do in retaliation is take a few moments out of their lives to commute to the voting booths and voting, and voting won’t help either since elections are highly fraudulent, and also the Ashkenazim control who gets to actually run for office, at least in the main two parties. It seems to be that extremely poor quality “academics” who write articles, such as this one, don’t understand that common Gentiles are just as genetically “guilty” as the elites/politicians. Most American Gentiles just get by well enough. Most of the Gentiles on my street have swimming pools, many have recreational off-road vehicles like four-wheelers/dirt-bikes, most regularly go on vacations, most enjoy their TV subscriptions and sports channels, etc. They are happy and have no reason to sacrifice themselves, even if they found out that Trump had sexual relations with dozens of females under the age of eighteen (hypothetically). Just take a look at the Gentiles in Europe – everyone is now required to upload their ID to get access to social media / political / pornography websites, yet the Gentiles will not have a civil war or collapse the economy to crush the elites. So, the Ashkenazim can do absolutely anything they want; they have won, and the Gentiles have lost. This is permanent now. Dr. Woodley of Menie has researched this and discovered that the genetics of Gentiles has deteriorated to the point where they are incapable of doing anything whatsoever against the Ashkenazim.
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Distraction from Epstein likely won’t work.
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It has already worked. America’s President Netanyahu has brilliantly switched the Gentiles’ attention from Epstein to “Russia Hoax.” Gentiles have already forgotten about Epstein.
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Trump’s narrow-minded foreign policy team has taken the President’s foreign policy initiatives into a cage, whose bars have names such as ‘arrogance and hubris’.
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America’s President Netanyahu seems to me to be doing a great job with respect to foreign policy. The news is reporting right now that China used to have exclusive rights to all the minerals in Congo, but Netanyahu just threatened to destroy the Congo if they refuse to sell many of their mineral mines to American companies, and since China refuses to militarily defend Congo from USA attacks, Congo has just now agreed to sell many of their mines to USA. China is quickly losing their access to the world’s natural resources, and the reason is that Netanyahu and the Ashkenazim are threatening to destroy and genocide any nation that does any business with China, and since China refuses to ever use their military to defend their business partners, China’s business partners are quickly reducing business interactions with China and changing their loyalty to the Ashkenazim instead. I also speculate that India will soon 100% capitulate to the Ashkenazim by breaking off all relations with Russia. India has a median IQ of 80 – a completely “retarded” nation. It’s the small percent of Brahman Hindu higher IQ elites that keeps India afloat. They are no match for the World Ashkenazi Empire. And Russia is stuck in Ukraine for the next one hundred years, based on the current rate at which they are conquering Ukrainian land. For how long will Russia’s citizens support this? Every day, a new building is blown up in Russia with its occupants killed.
China is so “pathetic” that King Xi is now going to give each female a $500 check for each child she gives birth too. First, what is a measly $500 going to pay for? Second, only low IQ genetic “prostitutes” have children in exchange for cash. Netanyahu does not have to give cash to Orthodox Jewish People to get them to have children; rather, they voluntarily have children because they innately actually care about their race. Thus, Chinese Han innately no longer care about their race, so they no longer reproduce, and King Xi giving prostitute-like cash payments to female Chinese is going to do nothing to increase birthrates or improve their genetic quality.
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What I find interesting about the current White House foreign policy regarding Russia is how Russia reacted during the Cold War. At that time, Russia had 40,000 nuclear missiles. Now, when the West was winning and Russia was about to collapse, instead of destroying the biosphere by launching all of their 40,000 nuclear missiles with USA then launching all their own 40,000 nuclear missiles, Russia instead chose to 100% capitulate to the Western Ashkenazim. Moscow picked up the telephone and made a phone call to the Ashkenazim and told them that they will allow them to buy all of Russia’s companies and natural resources for almost free if that would mean avoiding a nuclear war. So, from this event, we know that ethnic Russians have no innate collective ethno-spiritual “honor” and chose to become the property of the Ashkenazim instead of destroying the biosphere and taking the entire human species to the After-Life to face Judgement by G-d. So, based on this fact, we know that in the current war against Russia, the Ashkenazim should keep on fighting and increase long range attacks into Russia, since just like before, Russia will never use their nuclear weapons and will once again agree to sell their entire nation to the Ashkenazim if it means avoiding dying in a nuclear war.
https://rumble.com/c/HolocaustHoaxMuseum/videos?e9s=src_v1_cbl
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hello-Svr4U9wnR86s5uYK7WcPFg
A while ago, I read somewhere (unfortunately I forgot where) that the “project” holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk is in fact the work of a single, almost manic-zealous person, a Dutchman (Jew?) who hosts his website in the UK so as not to be censored for any “buzzwords” under the gag laws of his own country, which he himself ultimately enforces with his activities.
People like this still dominate public discourse today, setting the agenda and shaping the narrative of what to think and say. Consider also the alleged “Russian” Ksenia Coffman (see Jewish “Kaufman”), who appeared out of nowhere (according to her own statement, from a privileged family under Stalinism) and within a very short time, single-handedly ensured that the dedicated work of thousands of Wikipedia article writers disappeared or was crippled and robbed of its content.
Former KGB agent Bezmenov was right in his prediction that the West would ultimately be infiltrated by communist propaganda and thus brought down. It is also well known, for example, that thousands of Hasbara agents operate out of the “high-tech country Israel,” flooding forums such as Wikipedia (but also comment sections of “alternative” websites) with pro-Israel propaganda, not to say manipulation.
It is therefore no surprise that, after the Google Jews bought YouTube, this once free and interesting platform ultimately became a tool of thought pattern programming and social engineering, hollowed out from within and misused as an instrument. What remains, as usual, is an empty shell of superficial “entertainment” and the desired chaos of a clown world.
Everything that was good has been banned and chased away. Instead, the lying media of the (mostly Jewish-run) mainstream press is being massively pushed and promoted by algorithms, Shoaism & LGBTQ propaganda is running rampant, and the rest is a nasty mix of all kinds of bullshit like makeup or cat videos. All platforms taken over by Jews are going the same way. Incidentally, Zionist Jew and pro-Trump agitator Laura Loomer sits on the board at Bitchute.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitchute-welcomes-laura-loomer-to-advisory-board-championing-free-speech-absolutism-302343112.html
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” (Lenin)
So we’re finished, are we?
What a defeatist message for TOO, Pierre de Craon, Roy Albrecht, KMac, and the Last of the Gentiles!! Did Heidi Beirich write this script and will Jonathan Greenblatt write the epitaph?