Shellenberger to EU, Thierry Breton

Hi — sorry — but who exactly do you think you are to demand censorship of speech? In America, we don’t even let our own politicians censor speech, much less foreign ones. Please consider reading the First Amendment to our Constitution AND BACK THE HELL OFF.

I agree with Michael Shellenberger.

And I’m also concerned that this EU attempted interference with how we have conversations over here might be an attempted end-around by our own federal government, which was recently excoriated by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Missouri v Biden (from p. 61):

If just any relationship with the government sufficed to transform a private entity into a state actor, a large swath of private entities in America would suddenly be turned into state actors and be subject to a variety of constitutional constraints on their activities. So, we do not take our decision today lightly. But, the Supreme Court has rarely been faced with a coordinated campaign of this magnitude orchestrated by federal officials that jeopardized a fundamental aspect of American life. Therefore, the district court was correct in its assessment—“unrelenting pressure” from certain government officials likely “had the intended result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.” We see no error or abuse of discretion in that finding.