Europeans Testify On How Europe Is Banning Americans From Saying What They Believe

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The European Union now constantly violates fundamental Western rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion and claims the power to ban speech across the globe, European witnesses testified to the U.S. Congress Wednesday morning.

“European laws [are] now being exported by the European Union. … American speech is already being affected,” testified Lorcán Price, an Irish lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom International.

Under “hate speech” policies that Europe is applying across the world, “Speech that is lawful today can become criminalized tomorrow. This should concern every person that values freedom,” testified Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen. Irish comedian Graham Linehan also testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. In September 2025, Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport by British authorities for criticizing transgender policies. Because of that arrest, he testified, “I became the target of a series of harassment campaigns that cost me my career, my marriage, and eventually drove me from my homeland.”

These Republican witnesses testified alongside Democrat witness Deepinder Singh Mayell, the leader of Minnesota’s branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Democrats on the committee focused on blasting federal immigration enforcement and insisting that attacking and harassing law enforcement is protected “free speech.” Mayell refused to answer when Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, asked if illegal alien child rapists and murderers should be deported.

Linehan and Price pointed out that forbidding citizens from freely discussing their ideas not only violates historic Western rights, but also foments civil unrest. When people can’t talk about their frustrations or work them out through fair and honest elections, they are more likely to resort to violence, the witnesses noted.

Global Surveillance and Speech Repression

The House Judiciary Committee recently released two reports about the European speech dragnet affecting Americans, one in July 2025 and another Tuesday. Tuesday’s report finds vast European Union censorship affects factually accurate American speech, interferes in elections across Europe, and “disproportionately targets conservatives.” These findings indicate that the hub for Western speech repression online has shifted from the United States under the Biden presidency to the European Union.

During the Biden administration, numerous investigations, such as Missouri v. Biden litigation, uncovered that federal officials pressured massive communications monopolies, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter), to erase accurate information and conservative ideas, rigging elections and civil society for Democrats. These mass-censorship efforts, nominally run through federally funded “private” organizations, ended up rigging the algorithms and now artificial intelligence that control what Americans and people the world over are allowed to know.

After President Trump won a second term, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg publicly confirmed to podcast star Joe Rogan that the censorship was real and significant. While U.S. officials under Trump policies no longer engage in a mass internet suppression campaign, the Biden administration’s manipulation of the internet continues to choke online speech worldwide.

So do European Union regulations that affect the same global speech monopolies the Biden administration targeted. That transnational entity increased internet censorship in February 2024 with the implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Under the guise of preventing “disinformation,” the DSA bans Christian and conservative ideas, not just in Europe, but across any large social media platforms that operate in Europe, such as Google and Facebook.