On the European side, proponents of these laws want to see them enforced strictly, including on U.S. technology giants. Some EU officials have argued that Washington officials are simply fronting the arguments of their homegrown tech firms.
The Judiciary Committee’s 37-page “interim staff report” is the result of a five-month, still-ongoing inquiry that started with subpoenas issued by the U.S. Congress in February to Big Tech companies.
Evidence attached to the report includes correspondence between top European Commission officials and Jim Jordan, the Republican representative from Ohio and chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
It also includes non-public information about how the European Commission and national authorities implement the rules, including confidential information from EU workshops, emails between the EU executive and companies, content takedown requests in France, Germany and Poland and readouts from Commission meetings with tech firms.
“On paper, the DSA is bad. In practice, it is even worse,” the report said.
“European censors” at the Commission and EU countries “target core political speech that is neither harmful nor illegal, attempting to stifle debate on topics such as immigration and the environment,” it said. Their censorship is “largely one-sided” against conservatives, it added.