US Vice President JD Vance criticized the European Union this week after rumors reportedly surfaced that Brussels may seek to punish X for refusing to remove certain online speech.

In a post on X, Vance wrote, “Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”

His remarks reflect growing tension between the United States and the EU over the future of online speech and the expanding role of governments in dictating what can be said on global digital platforms.

Vance was likely referring to rumors that Brussels intends to impose massive penalties under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a censorship framework that requires major platforms to delete what regulators define as “illegal” or “harmful” speech, with violations punishable by fines up to six percent of global annual revenue.

For Vance, this development fits a pattern he’s been warning about since the spring.

In a May 2025 interview, he cautioned that “The kind of social media censorship that we’ve seen in Western Europe, it will and in some ways, it already has, made its way to the United States. That was the story of the Biden administration silencing people on social media.”

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In a May 2025 interview, he cautioned that “The kind of social media censorship that we’ve seen in Western Europe, it will and in some ways, it already has, made its way to the United States. That was the story of the Biden administration silencing people on social media.”

He added, “We’re going to be very protective of American interests when it comes to things like social media regulation. We want to promote free speech. We don’t want our European friends telling social media companies that they have to silence Christians or silence conservatives.”

Yet while the Vice President points to Europe as the source of the problem, a similar agenda is also advancing in Washington under the banner of “protecting children online.”

This week’s congressional hearing on that subject opened in the usual way: familiar talking points, bipartisan outrage, and the recurring claim that online censorship is necessary for safety.

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade convened to promote a bundle of bills collectively branded as the “Kids Online Safety Package.”

The session, titled “Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online,” quickly turned into a competition over who could endorse broader surveillance and moderation powers with the most moral conviction.

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) opened the hearing by pledging that the bills were “mindful of the Constitution’s protections for free speech,” before conceding that “laws with good intentions have been struck down for violating the First Amendment.”

>>1462707
You didn’t let me finish. He added, “We’re going to be very protective of American interests when it comes to things like social media regulation. We want to promote free speech. We don’t want our European friends telling social media companies that they have to silence Christians or silence conservatives.”

Yet while the Vice President points to Europe as the source of the problem, a similar agenda is also advancing in Washington under the banner of “protecting children online.”

This week’s congressional hearing on that subject opened in the usual way: familiar talking points, bipartisan outrage, and the recurring claim that online censorship is necessary for safety.

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade convened to promote a bundle of bills collectively branded as the “Kids Online Safety Package.”

The session, titled “Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online,” quickly turned into a competition over who could endorse broader surveillance and moderation powers with the most moral conviction.

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) opened the hearing by pledging that the bills were “mindful of the Constitution’s protections for free speech,” before conceding that “laws with good intentions have been struck down for violating the First Amendment.”

Despite that admission, lawmakers from both parties pressed ahead with proposals requiring digital ID age verification systems, platform-level content filters, and expanded government authority to police online spaces; all similar to the EU’s DSA censorship law.

Vance has cautioned that these measures, however well-intentioned, mark a deeper ideological divide. “It’s not that we are not friends,” he said earlier this year, “but there’re gonna have some disagreements you didn’t see 10 years ago.”

>>1462707
That divide is now visible on both sides of the Atlantic: a shared willingness among policymakers to restrict speech for perceived social benefit, and a shrinking space for those who argue that freedom itself is the safeguard worth protecting.

The EU forced Apple to use USB C. And they're bigger & richer than Xitter.
Tell them how you & Elongated Muskrat think you can succeed where Apple failed, JD Weird. I'll wait.

>>1462713
Oh look, another anon who lost the plot. This is about trying to make the US have free and uncensored internet which ICELAND has for quite some time now.

>moans, bitches & whines on an irrelevant Worst Korean basket weaving forum
You can tell the EU where you, >>1462716, can possibly succeed where Apple failed
>forcing a company even bigger & richer that Xitter to do their bidding: EU said 'Jump', Apple only had the right to ask 'How high?'
That's power.

>>1462704
>https://reclaimthenet.org
Not a valid news source. It's a think tank.

>>1462734
If you want a valid news source, why not get it straight from the horse’s mouth. And that specific horses mouth is the one who puts all of us on his back, PRESTON BYRNE.

>>1462704
That'd be based, for once, if the right wasn't also moving to censor the internet.

>>1462779
luckily JD Vance is breaking from the Pack like me and stopping it. F*CK CENSORSHIP

>>1462787
JD is sitting on the sidelines dribbling the same banalities idiots like you fall for ever time
When Trump deteriorates enough that they can't keep him held together with duct tape and stimulants anymore and JD is in the hot seat, he'll be just as anti-1A as Trump and every other Republican that actually has power

>>1462787
>he says, as trump orders the execution of youths trying to get inside the us carrying illegal trump funny memes in their phones

>>1462802
>Ignores the fact that 4chan’s own Preston Byrne (WHO PUT US ON HIS BACK) is also against censorship and is actively doing stuff to stop it

>>1462804
KEK, LMAO EVEN, POINTING AND LAUGHING FFS, how do you not know or care about PRESTON FRICKING BYRNE, HE PUT EVERYONE ON 4CHAN ON HIS BACK!!!!

>>1462711
>We want to promote free speech
Lies. X was fined for using 'pay for use' blue ticks to signal supposedly trusted truthful accounts. Some of us like a trust scheme to be honest.

>>1462802
What happened to Vance? He used to be quite reasonable until Trump took him on as a MiniMe.

>>1462705
If this shit goes through then I'm in favor of dissolving NATO and ending any alliance with authoritarians who try to censor American companies like this.
>>1462779
I don't agree with those laws but there's obviously a difference between "You must show ID to watch some slut get gangbanged by BBC" and "it's illegal to point out how harmful mass immigration from the third world is"
Both are censorship but one is 10000x worse and is a threat to democracy.

>>1462982
Except all studies show immigration benefits a country. The idea that immigration is “harmful” as you call it is not based in reality. It is based in bigotry and xenophobia. The entire concept of “culture” is a social construct that shifts from year to year. The only people concerned with “holding onto their culture” in the face of immigration are just afraid of the unknown. Fear leads to hate which leads to feeling like a victim for being forced to hate immigrants.

But the reality is immigration benefits a society and a country financially and enriches the society as a whole.

Trum admin’s own words show immigration is a benefit. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116727/documents/HHRG-118-JU01-20240111-SD012.pdf

>>1462985
>Except all studies show immigration benefits a country.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You mean studies show immigration benefits a few wealthy elites and for the average person it drives down wages, increases housing costs, increases the burden on other resources, destroys the culture, ruins the schools, etc.
In Europe it also leads to a lot more violent crime. The only reason that's not as true in the US is because American Blacks drive the crime rate up so much.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/12/01/europe_shows_a_clear_link_between_immigration_and_crime_-_like_the_one_the_us_seriously_downplays_867625.html

>>1462985
>Except all studies show immigration benefits a country
>But the reality is immigration benefits a society and a country financially and enriches the society as a whole
leftists will really say something like this and then have the nerve to say conservatives are uneducated lmao.
And then these same leftists will complain about their rent being too high and our schools going to shit.

>>1463030
where are the leftists?

>>1462986
>>1463030
Isolationist nations are always shitholes lol.

Vance can go fuck a couch.

America, and India, is the only country he needs to worry about. He doesn't get to tell other countries what to do.

>>1463032
Isolationism is a direct reaction to leftoid unlimited migration.
If they had suggested to limit migration to the most qualified, instead of the most needy, then republicans would've agreed. Instead they had to break the system over their knee with a sickening crack and accuse others of being evil.

>>1463046
>Bro just only let the Good Ones in
Yeah that's an isolationist mindset too.

>>1463049
..what? How?

>>1463046
>leftoid unlimited migration
cool /pol/ meme

>>1463050
Well first of all, every Isolationist country in the last hundred years operates/operated by this. You think NK just rejected whatever talent was willing to go there? Hard zero immigration of any kind is a fucking myth.

Secondly, isolationism means no ties to other countries, so having "most qualified" come in one-way doesn't disqualify you from being isolationist.

There's also the fact the entire idea is paradoxical; you need immigrants for all walks of life, not just scientists. We're literally seeing a labor shortage for farm and factory jobs in the US right now because of the immigration crackdown, with multiple industries saying ICE is suffocating them to death because their workers don't come in. It also ignores how those "most qualified" have families they'll obviously want to come with them who aren't also "qualified". There's also the fact that, if you asked someone whether a poor family of five should die or a engineer should just have to deal with a longer job hunt, obviously most people will choose the family who NEEDS to move over the guy who WANTS to. Talented "qualified" people have a lesser need to migrate because they usually aren't facing death/desperation if they don't.

>>1463052
Your NK analogy doesn't make sense. They were sending workers to logging camps up in Russia on work visas and encouraging foreign tourism almost a decade ago. It's still a totalitarian shit hole.
All asian countries scout for western foreign talent to teach the natives how to basic things, e.g framing and plumbing.
>you need immigrants for all walks of life, not just scientists
WWII was maintained by housewives put on factory lines to make artillery shells. The difference between then and now is that picking beets by hand isn't going to pay the bills unless you shack up with 20 other people in a two bedroom house, which migrants do.

>>1463032
>if you don't have unlimited mass immigration it means you're isolationist
so until like 10 years ago every single country on Earth except the US was "isolationist"?

Thanks for yet another thread where leftists out themselves as ignorant children.

>>1463054
>Your NK analogy doesn't make sense. They were sending workers to logging camps up in Russia on work visas and encouraging foreign tourism almost a decade ago. It's still a totalitarian shit hole.
NK is literally one of the most isolationist countries currently active. IDK what else to tell you, other than if anything, that should prove to you how isolationism is retarded. No country can survive on their own in the modern world.

>WWII was maintained by housewives put on factory lines to make artillery shells.
Wartime and peacetime aren't comparable. The whole thing with that is that it isn't fucking sustainable long term for anyone involved. Hence, you know, wanting to win the fucking war. And the irony is, the US was at its most isolationist leading up to then, and it was literally killing us until WW2 forced us back out.

>The difference between then and now is that picking beets by hand isn't going to pay the bills unless you shack up with 20 other people in a two bedroom house, which migrants do.
Yeah so maybe the issue isn't with the migrants lol.

>>1463056
>IDK what else to tell you, other than if anything, that should prove to you how isolationism is retarded.
The US was isolationist until WW1, so I have no idea what the fuck you're basing this on.
The creation of the Federal Reserve and letting it be run by zionists was a mistake.
>Yeah so maybe the issue isn't with the migrants lol.
It is retard. Our economy is in the gutter because we keep trying to carry this globalist neoliberal shit on our shoulders. That includes importing a slave underclass willing to be raped for remittances.

>>1463057
>The US was isolationist until WW1, so I have no idea what the fuck you're basing this on.
Yeah and I rest my case. That worked out fucking horribly lol. We tried going back after that and it lead directly into the great depression.

>>1463059
>>1463056
From 1930 to 1970, the number of immigrants in the US decreased. That happens to line up with a very prosperous time for our country with strong wages and affordable housing.
Since 1970, immigration has skyrocketed. Which coincidentally has happened at the same time as wage stagnation and rising housing costs.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/datahub/thumbnail-US-ImmNumberShare.png

>>1463197
>1930s
>prosperous
shill anon, relying on stats alone won't help you convince us you're american

>>1463197
>Because nothing else happened to benefit the US during that time
>Obviously this "World War 2" thing meant nothing, the real reason we were on top were because we had less migrants!

>>1463202
>I got BTFO so I will say you're not American XD XD
I accept your concession. And this is a new level of ignorance for you I think, I don't remember a "leftists don't understand the concept of time" thread before. We've had "I didn't know that immigrants require places to live" and "I didn't know that immigrants consume food and water" but never "I didn't know that the 50s and 60s happened after the 30s"
>>1463205
and yet now that we've had 50 years of skyrocketing immigration we have shit wages, shitty schools, and unaffordable housing. Seems like maybe things were better when companies couldn't undercut American workers with cheap labor, when schools weren't overrun with uneducated third-worlders who don't speak English, and when we had a lower population density which meant a lower demand for land use.

>>1463218
if you want attention so bad, argue in good faith instead of spamming "i accept your concession"

>>1463218
Incredibly funny how the most anti-immigrant admin in history right now is also driving our economy into the shitter lmao. Pokes a bit of a hole in your theory.

Oh, and so does the fact that you literally ignore every single other factor in the last 50 years in favor of "See, immigrant number go up!". Retards love correlation over causation.

>>1463219
>I concede again
and I accept it again
>>1463222
Incredibly funny how other countries have been fucked in recent years due to immigration (not that you would know since you're 16). Pokes a bit of a hole in your theory.

Oh, and so does the fact that you literally ignore how much of a factor adding 100,000,000 third world immigrants is. Retards love "MUH RACIST ORANGE MAN BAD" over causation.

>unlimited H1Bs in US
You voted for this, white rightards.

>>1462940
Objection, X was fined because the EU bureaucrats are the real fascists. They just hide it because they fear Trump and one of 4chan’s own, PRESTON FRICKING BYRNE

>>1462982
Yes!!!

>>1462985
Not surprised that proper anons on 4chan are having to play “twitter simulator” against woke anons who use words like “bigot” “fascist” and “Nazi.”

What’s next? They’ll get offended when you don’t use their FOOKING PRONOUNS?!

>>1463033
Nah, we’re all connected, you are ignoring our attempts to keep you anonymous, anon.

>>1463383
What does that have to do with the chuds (who own retarded anons like you, and NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND)
And 4chan’s own lawyer PRESTON FRICKING BYRNE trying to keep us all anonymous? Imagine the horror when we are required to put a name instead of anonymous

>>1462704
EU says 'Jump', Cloudflare asks 'How high?'
You're next, Xitter. You'll be forced to conform. And you'll only have the right to like it, Muskrat.
No wrong opinions allowed. Good