Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation

Date: Wed, 09/03/2025 - 10:00 AM
Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

he House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The hearing will examine European threats to American free speech and innovation. It will highlight how European online censorship laws-specifically the United Kingdom's (UK) Online Safety Act (OSA) and the European Union's (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA)-threaten Americans' right to speak freely online in the United States. Additionally, it will explain how the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC) and the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) target American companies and hurt innovation.

WITNESSES:

The Rt. Hon. Nigel Farage, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Lorcán Price, Barrister, Legal Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom International
Morgan Reed, President, The App Association
David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Subcommittees
Committee on the Judiciary (119th Congress)