House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is looking to protect speech both domestically and abroad.
American tech companies have a global reach and often face government demands for censorship—meaning foreign requests can end up silencing Americans. Jordan and four other congressmen warned in a Tuesday letter to EU Commissioner Michael McGrath that Poland’s censorship push under Prime Minister Donald Tusk could threaten free speech on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jordan wrote to McGrath “to express concern about recent allegations that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government is weaponizing Poland’s justice system to target and censor political opponents … [and] how these allegations affect the potential that Europe’s censorship regime will affect free speech in the United States.”
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