Helmut Brandstatter, MdEP, born in Vienna, is a member of the European Parliament. He sits with the Renew Europe parliamentary group, and is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
He recently posted on X, protesting allegations that there is no free speech in Europe. He wrote:
“A Message to „piggy Land“: there is No censorship in Europe, and everybody has to follow our rules” Trump fights the free press, suing newspapers and TV stations. So leave us alone.”
“Piggy land” is a reference to a comment President Trump made about a reporter.
Brandstatter was responding to JD Vance who wrote:
“Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”
Vance was referencing the EU’s fine of 140 million Euros for banned speech on his platform.
A number of people responded to the lie Brandstatter was spreading about free speech in the EU. The most significant is from the Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers who cited some examples of speech in Europe and how it is treated.
Rogers decided to say the things Europeans are no longer allowed to say by “revisiting some remarks for which people in Europe and also the UK have been investigated or arrested or jailed by their governments over the past few years.”
“… a German woman notoriously received a harsher jail sentence than a convicted rapist after the woman called the rapist, “ a disgraceful pig”. This was after he participated, along with several other disgraceful pigs in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in a public park.
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