President Trump Should Keep Standing Up to Europe’s Anti-Tech Agenda for U.S. Consumers and Taxpayers

Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) called on President Donald Trump to keep up the pressure on the European Union (EU) and negotiate an end to EU regulations that target American tech companies. Laws such as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) seek to extend to the U.S. tech sector the sorts of crushing regulatory burdens that have kept Europe from developing competitive tech companies.

TPA President David Williams provided the following comment:

“We are pleased that Canada dropped their nonsensical and retroactive digital services tax on American tech companies. Now, as President Trump continues to do great work in raising the political salience of the DMA, TPA urges him to redouble his efforts. The DMA is Europe’s latest monument to regulatory hubris. It’s a bureaucratic bulldozer masquerading as consumer protection, which will crush innovation beneath its weight. The DMA’s rigid, one-size-fits-all mandates ignore basic market realities.

“The DSA is no better, wrapping a dangerous tool for censorship in the seductive rhetoric of creating a ‘safer’ internet. This law threatens the very foundations of digital freedom and innovation. It is a censorship apparatus, granting Brussels bureaucrats sweeping powers to dictate what constitutes acceptable online discourse.

“As negotiations continue, President Trump must continue on his course and ensure that European regulators do not devastate the profitability and utility of American tech platforms. We are encouraged by the progress.  Now is not the time to take our foot off the gas pedal of deregulation.”