Exhibit 1134 ยท Congressional staff report
The Foreign Censorship Threat: How the European Union's Digital Services Act Compels Global Censorship and Infringes on American Free Speech (interim staff report, with appendix of exhibits)
Nonpublic documents reveal that European regulators use the DSA: (1) to target core political speech that is neither harmful nor illegal; and (2) to pressure platforms, primarily American social media companies, to change their global content moderation policies in response to European demands.
Majority staff report on subpoenaed communications between nine technology companies and European regulators. It reproduces as exhibits the Commission's letters: Commissioner Breton's 12 August 2024 letter to X (Ex. 16, see ec-2024-breton-letter-to-musk), Chairman Jordan's reply of 15 August (Ex. 17), Breton's reply of 21 August (Ex. 18) and Executive Vice-President Virkkunen's 18 February 2025 letter (Ex. 21, see ec-2025-virkkunen-letter-to-jordan). The report's conclusions are the Committee's; the Commission's reply says the DSA 'applies exclusively within the European Union'. House Judiciary Democrats published a rebuttal ('Debunking Republicans' Misleading Report on the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA)'; located, not read).
- Source
- House Committee on the Judiciary (majority staff)
- Date
- 25 July 2025
- Quoted from
- Executive Summary, p. 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-07/DSA_Report%26Appendix%2807.25.25%29.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit