House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has fired off a stern warning to the European Union, blasting its expanding censorship under the Digital Services Act (DSA) as a global assault on free expression. On February 5, 2026, Jordan likened the EU’s tactics to the Biden administration’s arm-twisting of tech giants to suppress content on COVID-19, immigration, and gender ideology—issues where conservative voices were often silenced.
Jordan’s letter, accompanying a damning House report on EU content regulation, argues the DSA acts as a “global moderation standard” imposed on U.S.-based platforms, binding Americans without representation. “This is not just about Europe,” he stated. “It is about how a global moderation policy ends up shaping what Americans can say, read, or publish online.” He highlighted EU interference in Irish elections, pressuring companies to restrict political speech, and ridiculed former Commissioner Thierry Breton’s 2024 letter to Elon Musk as “ridiculous” overreach.
Drawing parallels to domestic scandals, Jordan cited Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 2024 admission that the Biden White House coerced censorship on COVID narratives and Hunter Biden’s laptop story. He slammed the scrapped U.S. “misinformation board” as emblematic of leftist control: “It made no sense then, and it makes no sense now.”Jordan decried EU initiatives like the “Democracy Shield” as ironic tools for political elites to stifle dissent, warning: “Throughout history, it is always the bad actors who want to censor.”
He emphasized free speech’s foundational role: “Without freedom of speech, there can be no free press, and without a free press, democracy itself collapses.” This exposé underscores the globalist threat to conservative values, where unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington collude to muzzle opposition.