{"id":80710,"date":"2026-02-08T00:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/890415061"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:56:54","slug":"american-tech-is-under-siege-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/american-tech-is-under-siege-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"American Tech Is Under Siege in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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European Union (EU) bureaucrats will stop at nothing to punish large and successful companies that improve consumers\u2019 lives. To make matters worse, the EU\u2019s regulatory overdrive is disproportionately targeting U.S. companies and American consumers.
\nThe House Judiciary Committee recently announced it \u201csubpoenaed Europe\u2019s secret 183-page censorship order to [the social media platform] X.\u201d The findings are deeply disturbing. According to the Committee, \u201cThe [EU\u2019s] first ever fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA) was against X and Elon Musk for \u20ac120 million \u2014 nearly 6 percent of its GLOBAL revenue \u2014 for defending free speech. Now we know why: … Euro bureaucrats fined X because it innovated its blue checkmark system and refused to give into demands from misinformation pseudoscientists.\u201d Unfortunately, this is the very tip of the iceberg. President Trump and Congress must continue pushing back against this foreign red tape.
\nPunishing X for improving its services is troubling, but not surprising. Following the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple was mandated to allow third-party app marketplaces to exist on its products in the EU. Despite real security concerns posed by this onerous requirement, Apple has done its best to comply by allowing other stores and subjecting them to fees to mitigate these risks and ensure a safe experience for consumers.
\nBut pricing changes have not been allowed \u2014 because of the very regulators who have been implementing DMA requirements. The company notes, \u201cThe European Commission [EC] has refused to let us implement the very changes that they requested. In October, we submitted a formal compliance plan and they have yet to respond. The EC is using political delay tactics to mislead the public, move the goal posts, and unfairly target an American company with burdensome investigations and onerous fines.\u201d And now, European bureaucrats are reportedly trying to blame Apple for third-party app stores\u2019 business failures.
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… Jennifer Huddleston (senior fellow in technology<\/span> policy at the Cato Institute … means less benefits from innovative technology<\/span> for the consumer.\u00e2\u0080\u009d President Trump … in Brussels claim that expansive tech<\/span> regulations will ensure transparency, protect …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}