and everything looks like racism because you could sort of rationalize it to make anything sound like one of those two things. So it would be just a gross attack on free speech. But it looks like X hired some lawyers and it looks like it's going to be blocked at the moment. The court struck down the key censorship provision according to Reclaim the Net's D.D. Rankovic. So this is really huge. And if you only think of X in terms of the more obvious stuff it's doing you would miss one of its biggest values to the country is this: Musk will lawyer up whatever it costs and he will go after every attack on free speech that affects X. And this is huge that you could get a win like that.

Speaking of which, you know that the Europeans are trying to do the same thing that California was doing which is create these censorship standards so that they can control American companies by controlling what they can do in Europe which would trickle into the United States. So if they said for example you can't post a message like this whatever this is in Europe, well what are the platforms going to do? If you're Facebook you're going to say all right well I guess we're going to have to ban it everywhere because if it's banned in Europe and they're going to completely kick us out of that market if we don't do this, we're going to have to censor.

So the FCC chairman was over at the Mobile World Congress. This is Brendan Carr. Brendan Carr is one of the good guys. He is very active in chasing down the bad behavior and addressing it. So he's giving speeches basically and he's mentioning the EU's Digital Services Act which is the one that would be sort of a backdoor way of censoring Americans. And basically he's warning them that the United States is going to respond because Trump has already said he wants a directive to figure out how to tariff them or do something to make sure that they can't extort us that way. So I love the fact that Trump and his head of the FCC basically are saying