Marleen Stikker3d ago
Incredible. “US has subpoenaed all tech companies to hand over all messages with EU officials that enforce the DSA” https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-probes-eu-bureaucrats-hiding-efforts-censor-american-speech
Chairman Jordan Probes EU Bureaucrats Hiding Efforts to Censor American Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to ten technology companies—including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Reddit, Rumble, TikTok, and xAI—reiterating that the Committee's document subpoenas require the companies to produce communications with foreign censors, including the European Commission and European Union (

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@marleenstikker Slightly confusing, as using secure communications between EU officials makes sense, but this subpoena is about communications with EU officials.

Makes no sense to use secure communications there.

The fact these companies cannot be trusted to keep anything handled by them secret, is another problem all together.

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Show threadJoost Rekveld2d ago
@avuko @marleenstikker But this is a press release, so either it suggests the technology companies were subpoenaed to produce the internal communications sbetween EU officials (which would be scandalous, and if things like this are going on, it would be bizarre to put it in a press release), or it is to paint a propagandistic picture of EU officials trying to hide ?
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@joost_rekveld @marleenstikker

"Rather than reconsidering its censorship laws and changing its attitude towards free speech, the European Commission seems to be doubling down on its censorship efforts by attempting to hide them from the public.7" 1

7: Eliza Gkritsi, EU tech enforcer tells officials not to be scared by US threats, POLITICO (Feb. 16, 2026). 2

So this is,

  • Propaganda and posturing. In the second sentence of the letter send to all parties, they frame "the European Commission and European Union (EU) Member States" as "foreign censors".

  • "Ill doers are ill deemers", or as we say in Dutch: "Zo de waard is, vertrouwd hij zijn gasten". Jordan et al know how they scheme in secrecy with their US company collaborators, so they immediately assume EU officials are doing the same.

    • 1 ) https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-03-16-jdj-to-alphabet-pichai-re-preservation.pdf

    2 ) Referencing https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-tech-enforcer-tells-officials-civil-society-not-to-be-scared-after-us-threats/