{"id":25344,"date":"2025-04-04T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:30:24","slug":"how-free-speech-became-a-new-flashpoint-between-europe-and-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25344","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Free Speech\u2019 Became a New Flashpoint Between Europe and U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The two have long been divided on whether speech can be restricted, and when. Under the Trump administration, the gap is widening.<\/p>\n

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President Trump and Europe are clashing over tariffs, the war in Ukraine and the very purpose of the European Union\u2019s existence. But they are also divided over free speech \u2014 with potentially far-reaching implications for how the digital world is regulated.<\/p>\n

The E.U. has been investigating U.S. companies under the Digital Services Act<\/a>, a new law meant to prevent illegal content and disinformation from spreading online. In the first major case to near a conclusion, regulators as soon as this summer are expected to impose<\/a> significant penalties \u2014 including a fine and demands for product changes \u2014 on Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform, X<\/a>, saying the law was violated.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Trump\u2019s administration sees the law as a strike against his version of free speech: One that unshackles his allies to say what they want online, but restricts types of expression he does not agree with in the real world, like protests at universities.<\/p>\n

The president has argued<\/a> that Europe is at risk of \u201closing their wonderful right to freedom of speech.\u201d Vice President JD Vance has accused<\/a> European nations of \u201cdigital censorship\u201d because of its laws, which he argues restricts far-right voices on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And both administration officials and their allies at big technology companies have suggested that Europe\u2019s rules for curbing disinformation and incendiary speech on the internet are an attack on American companies \u2014 one that the United States could fight back against.<\/p>\n

Since Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration, Europe and the United States have clashed repeatedly. On Ukraine, Mr. Trump has dialed back support and threatened not to defend<\/a> European nations that do not invest enough in their own security. On trade, Mr. Trump this week announced wide-ranging tariffs<\/a> on Europe. And as European regulators begin to enforce their new social media rules, free speech is becoming another flashpoint.<\/p>\n

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The two have long been divided on whether speech can be restricted, and when. Under the Trump administration, the gap is widening.President Trump and Europe are clashing over tariffs, the war in Ukraine and the very purpose of the European Union\u2019s existence. But they are also divided over free speech \u2014 with potentially far-reaching implications for how the digital world is regulated.The E.U. has been investigating U.S. companies under the Digital Services Act, a new law meant to prevent illegal content and disinformation from spreading online. In the first major case to near a conclusion, regulators as soon as this summer are expected to impose significant penalties \u2014 including a fine and demands for product changes \u2014 on Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform, X, saying the law was violated.But Mr. Trump\u2019s administration sees the law as a strike against his version of free speech: One that unshackles his allies to say what they want online, but restricts types of expression he does not agree with in the real world, like protests at universities.The president has argued that Europe is at risk of \u201closing their wonderful right to freedom of speech.\u201d Vice President JD Vance has accused European nations of \u201cdigital censorship\u201d because of its laws, which he argues restricts far-right voices on the internet.And both administration officials and their allies at big technology companies have suggested that Europe\u2019s rules for curbing disinformation and incendiary speech on the internet are an attack on American companies \u2014 one that the United States could fight back against.Since Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration, Europe and the United States have clashed repeatedly. On Ukraine, Mr. Trump has dialed back support and threatened not to defend European nations that do not invest enough in their own security. On trade, Mr. Trump this week announced wide-ranging tariffs on Europe. And as European regulators begin to enforce their new social media rules, free speech is becoming another flashpoint.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25346,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25347,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344\/revisions\/25347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}