“This manbaby was not feeling it. … He was gonna pigeonhole the conversation into only things that he wanted to discuss, and anything else was gonna be shut down, because that’s what free speech, I guess, looks like to him,” Crockett said.
She laughed: “There was a little bit of drama, and somehow it did not involve me or Swalwell.”
The contentious London meeting comes after the U.S. delegation visited Brussels, where Jordan and Republicans raised concerns about the bloc’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.
GOP lawmakers warned that those laws, aimed at requiring platforms to take more decisive action against harmful content, infringe on the free speech rights of Americans and specifically harm U.S. tech giants.
“The American companies we have been speaking to have laid out the case their legal teams have been battling on many fronts now on that issue of censorship and trying to curtail what they are putting up online,” said Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.), a member on the trip, about the Online Safety Act in an interview Tuesday on the conservative GB News.
“You will see a continued fight step-by-step to make sure this doesn’t creep into America,” he added.