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How Europe’s crackdown on Big Tech could affect the United States

By Christopher Hutton
Published August 27, 2023 7:00am ET
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How Europe’s crackdown on Big Tech could affect the United States
A member of protocol adjusts the U.S. and EU flags prior to the arrival of ministers for an extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his counterparts from NATO and the European Union, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its ninth day marked by the seizure of the strategic port city of Kherson and the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. | (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)


The European Union’s latest internet regulations are aggressively trying to set the standard for how technology companies handle speech online, and it may have far-reaching implications that stretch to the United States.

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