This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, January 22nd, 2004.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Europe's trend toward restrictions on speech precedes a pace.

And it's worth repeating.

The impacts of their permission-based

regulatory approach will impact US-based companies

and perhaps even your ability to speak freely on speech platforms as well.

Cato's David and Sarah and Jennifer Huddleston comment.

The United States is exceptional in at least one way in that free speech is built into the foundational documents that

craft the United States of America.

What do Europeans feel about the freedom of speech? Is it as

much a value as it is here though we have to question whether or not it's that much of a value here too I suppose.

Yeah so this speaks to the difference in which the ways in which especially in democracies

people view freedom of expression it's everyone sort of assumes they go together but in other parts of the world that it's

sort of like okay yes freedom of expression is important but there's more restrictions

that might be put in place and you can think about this in different ways

across different countries. Especially recently you've seen the emergence of laws

that are going after hate speech, misinformation,

unlawful speech, especially in Europe under the Digital Services Act,

but also under a law passed that just was implemented last year, but also on individual nations like in Germany

passing a law called the NetsDG law that many people say is could be just as easily implemented in somewhere like Russia or

somewhere else like that an authoritarian nation. So the relationship between

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