White House has opened a second front - in Europe. The objective: disarm the EU's Digital Services Act, which forces major platforms to moderate content or face billions in fines. The method: threats/intimidation. In December 2025, five people, including the EU's former technology commissioner, were banned from entering the US for allegedly "censoring American free speech". The chair of the House Judiciary Committee publishes reports naming European Commission officials, and at least three European NGOs have received letters demanding they hand over internal documents. The secretary of state instructed diplomats to lobby European capitals for the repeal of the DSA. Germany's digital affairs minister, after meeting with an American diplomat, publicly declared that European regulation had "gone too far". American diplomats lobby against another country's law in another country's capital. Sovereign states take note and schedule another meeting. The EU built a law whose enforcement it made dependent on NGOs - and now stands by watching as someone systematically neutralises those very NGOs. American politicians send letters to European NGOs and the NGOs are scared - Brussels, in response, "stands behind them" and steps out for a coffee. The EU passed a law regulating companies worth trillions, then effectively outsourced evidence-gathering to organisations that live on grants, have no investigative powers, and can be intimidated by a letter from a congressman. This is an architectural problem. USA merely exposed it. A separate question remains: what happens when law enforcement depends on organisations that are, by definition, NON-governmental. archive.is/gSkgH