Concerns Over Free Speech in Europe

Free speech is in a free fall in Europe.

There are two anti-free speech movements that have coalesced.

Mm-hmm.

One is in Europe where it has laid waste to free speech, Germany,

France, England. Free speech has been eviscerated,

and also places like Canada. The US anti-free speech

movement began in higher education, then metastasized throughout the

government. But this has all reached our shores now.

Uh, the Berlin World Forum followed the

remarks of Vice

President Vance on free speech.

The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not

Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor,

and what I worry about is the threat from within.

The retreat of Europe from some of its most

fundamental values, values shared with the United States of

America.

In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear,

is in retreat.

And the EU was red hot. They gathered in Berlin, and it

was the most anti-f-free speech gathering I've ever been part of.

There was only two of us from the free speech community.

And they are committed, and you know, Hillary Clinton was there, and she

really fueled the anger. I mean, she, uh, when Twitter was

purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to

use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most

anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades,

and she called upon the EU to use the DSA to

force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to

censor. It's extraordinary act by someone who

was once a

presidential candidate in the United States.

Uh, but they are committed to it, and after the World Forum, uh,

they further globalized this effort, and they are threatening

companies like X with ruinous fines unless they

resume censoring American citizens.