1. 🇺🇸 RUBIO: REJECT GLOBALISM, RESTORE THE WEST

Last week at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a clear message: our transatlantic unity only endures if Europe reasserts sovereignty, secures its borders, and rejects globalization.

Rubio warned that decades of globalist policies created dangerous dependencies and vulnerabilities in Europe. Secretary Rubio advised that the United States is ready to come help them solve their issues, but first, they need to take the proper steps to help themselves. “We in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline,” Rubio declared.

Sec. Rubio’s State Department is now releasing a new website titled freedom.gov, where Europeans will be able to access censored content using a vpn on the website.

The EU must reject its recent history of regulatory overreach, supply chain dependence on adversarial countries, and close its borders to be able to restore the Western Hemisphere.

2. 🇫🇷 MACRON: FREE SPEECH IS “BS”

French President Emmanuel Macron escalated Europe’s speech crackdown this week, dismissing social media companies’ free‑speech arguments as “pure bullsh*t” and aligning himself with EU regulators pushing tighter controls on online content.

“Free speech is a pure bullsh*t if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech,” Macron said.

Macron’s recent comments are an example of how the governments view Free Speech: a threat to their legitimacy.

The Trump administration has been unrelenting in its fight against the EU’s radical censorship laws. Last year at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President Vance delivered a blistering speech calling out European leaders for their assault on free speech. This year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio returned to Munich with the same message: America will not tolerate the EU’s authoritarian crackdown on dissent. Meanwhile, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan has led the charge in Congress. In August, Chairman Jordan traveled to Europe in a congressional delegation, where he discovered the censorship was worse than he initially thought.

For the United States, the signal is unmistakable: Europe’s regulatory model is moving further from free speech and closer to centralized speech management.

3. 🇩🇪 GERMANY ORDERS X TO HAND OVER DATA

A German court just ruled that 𝕏 must surrender user data tied to Hungary’s upcoming election to help researchers “assess risks like election interference.”

But let’s be clear: this is government-mandated surveillance dressed up as transparency.

Under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), American tech companies like 𝕏 are forced to hand over data to external researchers whenever unelected bureaucrats demand it. The court sided with Democracy Reporting International after 𝕏 refused the group’s November data request, setting a dangerous precedent for speech monitoring across Europe.

And it doesn’t stop there. In December, the European Commission slapped 𝕏 with a €40 million fine as part of a €120 million penalty for refusing to comply with these sweeping data-sharing mandates.

The pattern is unmistakable: Europe wants to police the world’s speech, one court order at a time. German courts are now deciding what American companies must disclose about elections in Hungary. If that doesn’t alarm you, it should.

Fortunately, President Trump’s administration has consistently defended American tech companies against EU overreach. While Brussels tries to export its censorship regime globally, Trump has made it clear: American innovation will not be kneecapped by unelected European bureaucrats.

Free speech isn’t up for negotiation, and neither is American sovereignty.

🇪🇺 VON DER LEYEN’S “RED LINES”: OFFLINE BANS, ONLINE BANS

A recent exchange put Brussels’ speech‑policing agenda center stage on X this week. When pressed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about the “red lines” referenced in her Munich speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared: “What is forbidden offline is forbidden online. And we will not flinch… We will be very steadfast to pursue this very clear demand for us.”

Translation: EU regulators plan to impose their censorship norms on U.S. platforms under the banner of “digital sovereignty.”

The rhetoric of sovereignty masks a power grab in which unelected officials set speech rules for people across the globe. It’s a model that encourages censorship and punishes companies that decline to police free speech.