The fire rolling in the United States against European regulation


Brendan Carr, president of the American Federal Commission for Communications, during the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone show in Barcelona, ​​Monday, March 2025.

In the war between the United States and Europe, digital technology becomes a full-fledged front. The administration of the American president, Donald Trump, seems to seize all occasions to attack European tech regulations, dominated by American giants.

“I have some concern about the approach that Europe adopts, in particular with Digital Services Act (DSA) “”Thus launched, Monday, March 3, at the Mobile World Congress telecom show in Barcelona, ​​the boss of the American Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, in reference to the European regulation of content on social networks entered in 2023. “There is a risk that this regulatory regime imposes excessive rules in matters of freedom of expression”warned the official, before the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for digital sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen, with whom he shared a round table. “The censorship that could result from the DSA is incompatible with our tradition of freedom of expression in America”he insisted.

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