The European Union has been waging a quiet war on American companies for years.
Global commerce is being turned into a weapon.
And European bureaucrats just put Americans' free speech in their crosshairs with this sinister scheme.
EU's censorship laws targeting Elon Musk and American free speech
The European Union passed two sweeping laws in recent years that supposedly protect consumers from Big Tech abuses.
The Digital Markets Act designates certain large technology companies as "gatekeepers" and imposes strict rules on how they operate.
The Digital Services Act forces online platforms to police "harmful content" or face massive fines.
Sounds reasonable until you see how Brussels is actually using these laws.
Five of the seven companies Brussels designated as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act are American.
That's not consumer protection — it's a coordinated attack on American companies.
And the Digital Services Act has become Brussels' favorite weapon for silencing speech they don't like.
The EU just slapped Elon Musk's X with enormous fines for refusing to censor content the way European bureaucrats demanded.
The "harmful content" X refused to remove? Political speech that's completely legal in the United States.
Unelected foreign bureaucrats are now dictating what Americans can say on American platforms.
President Trump's administration called the EU's fine against X what it is — an assault on Americans.
Biden let this slide for four years.
While crushing American companies, the EU gives European competitors far lighter scrutiny and Chinese firms virtually no pressure at all.
This week proved how deadly that strategy has become.
American robotics company killed by EU regulations, handed to China
iRobot just filed for bankruptcy.
A Chinese supplier will now take control of the American robotics company.
Three years ago, Amazon offered to acquire iRobot and keep it American-owned.
EU regulators blocked the deal, claiming it would "limit competition."
Lina Khan's FTC backed them up.
The result? An American company is dead, American workers lost their jobs, and China wins.
That's not protecting competition — that's economic sabotage dressed up as regulation.
Brussels created a regulatory environment specifically designed to punish American innovation while their own pathetic tech sector remains uncompetitive.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer admitted he's "disappointed" to see "zero moderation" from the EU.
Translation: they're still screwing us.
The EU had every chance to back off after Trump won.
Instead, they doubled down.
Trump weaponizing Section 301 to destroy EU's censorship regime
Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 was built for exactly this fight.
Congress gave the U.S. Trade Representative authority to investigate and crush foreign laws that violate trade agreements or discriminate against American commerce.
Trump's White House needs to instruct the USTR to open a formal investigation into how the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act operate as a coordinated EU scheme to silence conservative speech and destroy American companies.
The EU fined Musk's X for refusing to censor Americans.
They killed iRobot and handed the company to China.
They're targeting every major American tech platform while giving European competitors a free pass.
That's not regulation — it's economic warfare combined with ideological censorship.
Here's what happens when Section 301 kicks in.
The EU gets formally consulted and given one chance to back down.
If Brussels refuses, the United States can suspend trade concessions, jack up tariffs, or choke off market access.
If unelected European bureaucrats want to silence Americans and kill American companies, they're going to watch their own economies crater.
A Section 301 investigation documents every instance of Brussels targeting conservative speech on American platforms and killing American companies while exempting European competitors.
Then Trump's team uses that documented pattern of censorship and discrimination to justify crushing tariffs on EU exports.
The threat alone will make Brussels reconsider whether silencing Elon Musk is worth watching German car exports and French wine sales collapse.
President Trump's second administration can end this asymmetric relationship right now.
Brussels has controlled the terms for years because Biden refused to fight back.
Those days are over.
If the EU wants to turn its own internet into a censored wasteland, that's their funeral.
But they don't get to export their speech codes to America.
They don't get to fine Elon Musk for refusing to censor conservatives.
And they certainly don't get to kill American companies and hand them to China.
American workers just watched EU regulations destroy their robotics company and give it to Chinese competitors.
Unelected foreign bureaucrats are fining American platforms for refusing to silence conservative speech.
Trump has the legal authority to make Brussels pay for every single attack.
Time to use it.
¹ Raheem J. Kassam, "Trump vs. The EU – How Brussels is Bankrupting American Companies and Aiding China," The National Pulse, December 19, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
