John Stuart Mill said the peculiar evil of silencing expression is that it robs the human race. The EU’s decided that’s not a bug—it’s a feature. They’ve taken the marketplace of ideas and turned it into a monopoly where the only supplier is… the EU.
America’s Founders knew something these Brussels bureaucrats apparently skipped in history class: the answer to speech you don’t like is more speech, not less. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the First Amendment wasn’t written to protect popular opinions—because those don’t need protection.
I present twenty monuments to the idea that Europeans fought two world wars for freedom, then decided… freedom is overrated.
1. X Fined €15M for “Illegal Content” (2024)
The French fined X fifteen million euros for not removing posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict fast enough. Apparently, in France, “Liberté” now means “freedom to agree with the government within 90 minutes or less.” Even neutral journalism got the hook.
2. TikTok’s German “Hate Speech” Purge (2024)
Germany deleted 1.5 million videos criticizing migration policy, including satirical memes. That’s right—memes. Because nothing says “we learned from history” quite like mass suppression of political humor. Mark Twain once said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.”
3. Meta’s Climate Skeptic Ban (2025)
The EU ordered Meta to silence anyone questioning net-zero policies, including actual economists like Bjørn Lomborg. Because when your climate policy is so science-based, the only way to protect it is to make sure nobody can discuss it. That’s not science—that’s a cult.
4. YouTube’s COVID Vaccine Debate Purge (2024)
Two thousand videos of doctors—doctors—debating mRNA efficacy got memory-
holed. The EU apparently believes the scientific method works best when it’s not allowed to work at all.
5. Telegram Fined for Encrypted Chat (2025)
Ireland fined Telegram €10 million for not decrypting private chats. Privacy is so 20th century. Benjamin Franklin said those who give up liberty for security deserve neither. The EU said, “Hold my Weiner schnitzel and watch this.”
6. BBC Censored Over Gaza Coverage (2024)
The UK’s Ofcom (state media regulator)—doing its best EU impression—investigated the BBC for “bias” and forced editorial rewrites. The organization that gave us 1984 apparently thought Orwell was writing an instruction manual. “We report, you comply” isn’t quite as catchy as the old slogan.
7. Instagram Deletes Feminist Trans-Rights Critiques (2025)
Women’s rights groups got deleted for discussing biological sex. Turns out you can
have any opinion you want about women’s issues, as long as bureaucrats who’ve never experienced menstruation approve it first. Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s right to vote; the EU’s making sure they won’t have much to say once they do.
8. Spotify Deplatforms Ukraine War Skeptics (2024)
Ten million Europeans can’t hear certain Joe Rogan episodes questioning NATO’s role. Nothing suspicious about that. It’s almost like they’re worried people might think for themselves, which is frankly inconsiderate when there are bureaucrats who’ve already done the thinking for you.
9. Google Fined €20M for “Election Misinformation” (2025)
The EU fined Google for search rankings that favored populist parties. Democracy means the people choose—just so long as they choose correctly and Google’s algorithms help them along. It’s voter information “curation,” which is like calling a prison a “gated community.”
10. Facebook Shadow-Bans Anti-EU Groups (2024)
“Frexit” and “Italexit” pages lost 80% visibility. The EU loves democracy so much,
they’re willing to suppress it to protect it. That’s some 4D chess that would make a Byzantine emperor weep with envy.
11. France’s TikTok “Anti-Vax” Purge (2025)
Five hundred accounts promoting natural immunity—including pediatricians—got the boot. Because medical professionals discussing immune systems is apparently too dangerous for French citizens, who I remind you, survived the French Revolution, two World Wars, and French cuisine.
12. X’s Mandatory Censor Army (2024)
The EU forced X to hire 1,000 censors who deleted 300,000 tweets for “microaggressions.” Three hundred thousand. That’s not content moderation—that’s a pogrom against humor.
13. LinkedIn Censors Union Critiques (2025)
LinkedIn removed posts criticizing EU labor laws. So you can’t even complain about your working conditions on a site designed for professional networking. That’s efficiency!
14. YouTube Demonetizes Satire (2024)
Comedy channels lost revenue for “harmful stereotypes.” Satire has survived kings,
kaisers, and commissars, but apparently, it can’t survive Brussels bureaucrats. Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” about eating babies—under DSA, he’d get a fine and a sensitivity training seminar.
15. Meta’s Palestinian Post Purge (2025)
One million posts with #FreePalestine deleted, often without appeal. Nothing says “we support all viewpoints” quite like mass deletion of a political hashtag. George Orwell called—he wants his plot back.
16. Reddit Fined for “Conspiracy” Forums (2024)
Five million euros for hosting investigative forums about elite corruption. Because if there’s one thing we know about powerful people, it’s that they never do anything wrong, and suggesting otherwise is clearly misinformation. Move along, nothing to see here, citizen.
17. Instagram Bans Abortion Pill Discussions (2025)
Both pro-choice and pro-life voices censored during Ireland’s referendum debates. The EU’s achieved something remarkable: bipartisan censorship. If you can’t speak, you can’t disagree! It’s unity through silence, which is sort of like peace through superior firepower, but for discourse.
18. X Geo-Blocks Dutch Farmer Protests (2024)
Protest content about Netherlands nitrogen regulations got blocked. Dutch farmers
fought the sea for centuries and won. But fighting EU regulators? That’s apparently one dike too far, and you can’t even tweet about it.
19. TikTok’s Youth “Protection” Algorithm (2025)
Kids under 18 can’t see “controversial” topics like LGBTQ+ debates. The EU is protecting teenagers from ideas, which is adorable considering teenagers invented sneaking around authority figures. This’ll work about as well as Prohibition, but with more eye-rolling.
20. Google Delists Corruption Reports (2024)
EU corruption reports from Transparency International got delisted from search results. They’re not even hiding the meta-irony anymore—an organization called “Transparency International” getting disappeared for reporting on lack of transparency. You can’t make this up. Well, you could, but they’d probably fine you for misinformation.
To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: giving Europe’s insufferable bureaucrats the power to determine “truth” is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys—the results are predictable, the damage is inevitable, and real people suffer.
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Humans have experienced a surprisingly limited range of conditions since we arose. Slavery, war, genocide and serfdom were humanity’s prevalent conditions in centuries past. Personal liberty is a recent convention, ignited at scale by America’s founders in 1776.
And you thought U.S. media was bad?
It’s gotten to the point where I visit mainstream European media outlets strictly for comic relief.
Many controversial political figures from the US have gone to Europe to promote the implementation of these speech-limiting laws. They can't do a lot of that (yet!) here in the US, but they realize that if it can be put in place in Europe, it will be more difficult to prevent it eventually happening here.
The absolute #1, tipity-top Priority at the WEF for years and years, drilled into the heads of all the elites and heads of state who make their annual pilgrimage to that holy site in Davos, has always been: CRUSH FREE SPEECH!
Because they know if they can succeed in taking that away all other freedoms swiftly follow.