EU Attempts to Regulate US Platforms; Monroe Doctrine Makes Comeback

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The European Commission is attempting to regulate American platforms, and even fine them. The commission has issued a fine to social media platform X for 120 million euros, or just over $139 million. X is refusing to comply, and this is quickly turning into an issue of global diplomacy, and a question of whether foreign countries can export their laws to the United States.

Also, on the point of defending American sovereignty against European powers, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just declared that the United States will once again be enforcing the Monroe Doctrine.

We’ll discuss these topics, and others, in this episode of Crossroads.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	The European Commission is attempting to regulate American platforms such as X and even fined them millions of dollars.
0:07.7	And this is turning into an issue of global diplomacy and a question of whether foreign countries can export their laws into the United States.
0:16.2	And this is also bringing up the issue of defending American sovereignty against the powers of Europe.
0:20.4	And on that also, Secretary of War, Pied Hexeth, just declared, also bringing up the issue of defending American sovereignty against the powers of Europe.
0:28.2	And on that also, Secretary of War, Pete Hexeth, just declared the United States will once again be enforcing the Monroe Doctrine. Also on another topic, the Department of Homeland Security
0:33.9	just announced a new vetting center. and it says this were of you all pending
0:39.1	and even the approved alien applications, legal and illegal. We'll be talking about these topics
0:46.2	and a lot more today. I'm the Epitimes Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip,
0:50.9	and you're listening to Crossroads.
1:05.8	The European Commission is trying to regulate American platforms and placing massive fines on them when they don't abide by European law.
1:08.8	The Commission needs to find the social media platform X for 120
1:13.9	million euros. That's just under $140 million. X right now is refusing to comply. This is
1:21.7	quickly turning into the issue of global diplomacy, though, and a broader question, are we a sovereign country or not?
1:29.7	And can foreign countries export the laws right here to the United States,
1:33.1	especially to what you would consider to be globalist businesses,
1:37.4	especially with the internet?
1:39.2	While the European Commission posted the announcement on X, stating,
1:42.4	quote, today we find X for noncompliance of transparency
1:47.4	obligations under the DSA. They say we're holding X accountable for deceptive design of its blue check
1:55.0	mark, lack of transparency for its advertising repository failure to provide access to public data for researchers.
2:04.5	And they're alleging this is in particular, doesn't have anything to do with content moderation,
2:09.8	but it's bringing up that debate, right? Content moderation since, well, they've been doing it in other cases.
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