The European Union is now imposing its new code of conduct policies for all social media platforms and search engines.

That will force them to comply with strict censorship laws or be hit with crippling fines.

The move will impact some 500 million people, including Americans.

In this episode, we sit down with an expert from Alliance defending freedom to discuss how the EU's new policies will impact Americans. In this episode, we sit down with an expert from Alliance defending freedom to discuss

how the EU's new policies will impact Americans and how social media companies and the Trump

administration are responding. I'm Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. It's

Saturday, July 5th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss the EU's new online censorship policies is Jeremy Tedesco,

senior vice president of corporate engagement at Alliance defending freedom.

Jeremy, thank you for coming on.

Yeah, it's my pleasure, John.

So most of our audience will not have heard about Europe's Digital Services Act before.

So let's start there.

What exactly is that in these new Code of Conduct policies?

Yeah, the Digital Services Act has actually been around for a while. It's just now becoming truly mandatory. But what it is is essentially a blueprint for total narrative control in the digital

age. What it does is it takes

the EU's draconian speech standards, and it imposes it on Americans, and everybody in the world,

really, by threatening big American platforms and search engines with literally billions and fines

if they fail to censor speech that the

EU deems to be hate speech or disinformation. And trust me, the EU's definitions of those words,

which can't be defined really at all because they're so vague, it's really in the eye of the beholder,

completely inconsistent with the free speech standards

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