Free speech is being extinguished from the internet in Europe.
It's starting to spread beyond their borders.
And what Trump just did about it has Brussels in a full-blown panic.
The EU's Digital Services Act Already Decided What You're Allowed to Say
The European Union's Digital Services Act handed unelected Brussels bureaucrats the power to decide what speech is too dangerous for citizens to read online – then fine American companies billions of dollars for refusing to comply.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan obtained internal documents from a secret EU regulatory workshop held in May 2025.
Behind closed doors, with the press locked out, European Commission regulators ran exercises with American tech companies showing exactly what speech the DSA requires them to erase.
The phrase "we need to take back our country" – a standard political rallying cry used by Americans every election cycle – was labeled "illegal hate speech" that platforms must censor under DSA rules.
European bureaucrats classified one of the most common phrases in American political history as hate speech – then told Facebook, YouTube, and every other major platform to remove it globally.
French authorities went further, ordering the removal of an American social media post that satirically noted a terrorist attack by a Syrian refugee showed what permissive French immigration policy produces.
An American's opinion about French immigration policy – deleted because Paris didn't like the conclusion.
French President Emmanuel Macron made Europe's position crystal clear at a conference in New Delhi last week — calling free speech online "pure bulls***."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it "extraterritorial censorship" — and started banning the people responsible from entering the United States.
Rubio Drew a Red Line on EU Censorship – Then Trump Enforced It
Rubio banned five European officials from entering the United States in December, calling them "radical activists" who used "weaponized NGOs" to pressure American platforms into silencing American citizens.
The most prominent target was Thierry Breton – the architect of the Digital Services Act – who threatened Elon Musk's X with EU legal action for broadcasting a Trump campaign interview.
Under Secretary Sarah Rogers named every individual publicly, accusing them of "extraterritorial censorship of Americans."
Then the EU fined X €120 million for DSA violations.
Rubio called it "an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people."
Europe pushed.
Trump pushed back harder.
freedom.gov: The Portal That Has Brussels Losing Sleep
Freedom.gov – a U.S. government portal on American servers, completely outside EU jurisdiction – will host content European governments have ordered deleted.
Reuters confirmed the project through three sources familiar with the plan.
One source said officials discussed embedding a function that makes user traffic appear to originate in the United States, and that user activity on the site will not be tracked.
That's the Trump administration building a digital sanctuary where a French farmer can read posts about Syrian refugee crime that Paris banned, where a German citizen can access commentary their government classified as "incitement," where anyone in Europe can see the speech their own elected officials decided was too dangerous to allow.
Brussels can't touch it – because it sits on U.S. soil, under U.S. law, protected by the First Amendment.
This Is What the Left Wants for America
The United States government is now the last line of defense for free speech in the Western world.
Socialist Democrats in this country spent four years celebrating every conservative account deplatformed, every story labeled misinformation, every voice silenced by Big Tech algorithms they helped pressure into existence.
The EU's censorship machine – the one classifying "take back our country" as hate speech – is exactly the system they want imported here.
Freedom.gov exists because Trump looked at what Brussels built, watched them fine Elon Musk's X for running a Trump interview, and refused to let it stand.
Your socialist neighbors want that system here.
Trump is proving it doesn't have to be that way.
Sources:
- Reuters, "US Plans freedom.gov Website to Host Content Banned by EU and UK Censorship Laws," February 18, 2026.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "The Foreign Censorship Threat: How the European Union's Digital Services Act Compels Global Censorship and Infringes on American Free Speech," July 25, 2025.
- Marco Rubio, State Department statement on visa bans, December 24, 2025.
- Dan Frieth, "US Plans freedom.gov Website to Host Content Banned by EU and UK Censorship Laws," Reclaim The Net, February 18, 2026.
