Once again, Europeans are trying to tell Americans what they can say and do

John

Dec 27

We started our country to get away from and not be like Europeans. It's getting tiresome to be told to act like them because that is the standard they are measuring by.

Here's how it began.

Washington on Christmas

My European relatives and travels have shown me a few things. They didn't progress as far and as much as the US has since the above, and that the favorite sport in Europe isn't football, it's trashing America.

They are mostly socialist now and have had their land, welfare system and country invaded by the goat herders. I'll give you that our southern border has been overrun, but that's going to change in 2024 when the politician they loathe the most gets re-elected. Most of them aren't people wanting to kill and rape, but came to seek a better life. I'll especially laugh at my wife's relatives then.

Well, here we have them at it again. See below.

The European Union's (EU) regulatory agenda will largely hit U.S. technology companies and will impact Americans' speech and lifestyle by stifling innovation, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The EU laws consist of content moderation regulation, antitrust enforcement and artificial intelligence (AI) model rules, all carrying massive financial penalties for violation. The laws apply to platforms that have large user bases in the EU, which are mainly American companies, with the EU recently launching a formal investigation into billionaire Elon Musk's X and bipartisan lawmakers pushing President Joe Biden to ensure the regulation does not harm U.S. firms unfairly, according to Reuters.

"The EU views industry regulations as aspirational, which means there's an element of selective enforcement and only require industry to put good-faith efforts when complying," Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, told the DCNF. "It's why they are far more strident. … Therein lies the problem, the EU can turn the dial up or down on how fervently they will regulate. Given how broad all of these laws are—particularly the AI Act, this means that every company that either creates software, distributes software, or has it in their devices are implicated. The EU's laws now encompass everything from social media to children's toys."

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