Bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again, this time tag-teaming with publishers to use harmful regulation to shake down America’s most successful companies and destroy America’s lead in AI development.

For years, the European Union has been rolling out a tangled web of acronyms — the DMA, or Digital Markets Act, the DSA, or Digital Service Act, and the Copyright Directive — all aimed squarely at U.S. tech firms. They claim this is about “fairness” and “strengthening democracy,” but it is old-fashioned protectionism, plain and simple.