Exhibit 1156

Letter from Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen to Chairman Jim Jordan, 18 February 2025 (Exhibit 21 to the House Judiciary report of 25 July 2025)

Exhibit 1156 · Agency letter

Letter from Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen to Chairman Jim Jordan, 18 February 2025 (Exhibit 21 to the House Judiciary report of 25 July 2025)

I want to be very clear: the DSA does not regulate speech.

The Commission's answer to the Committee's letter of 31 January 2025. It says the DSA 'applies exclusively within the European Union' and 'has no extraterritorial jurisdiction in the U.S.', that 'the DSA does not regulate speech', and that substantive rules on unlawful content are set elsewhere in national or EU law. The Committee's report disputes these claims (exhibit house-judiciary-2025-foreign-censorship-threat-part-1).

Source: European Commission
Date: 18 February 2025
Quoted from: Letter, section 1 'Freedom of speech' (appendix page 137-138 of the report)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-07/DSA_Report%26Appendix%2807.25.25%29.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding INF-4.10: Primary record On 12 August 2024 Commissioner Breton wrote to X's owner that the European Commission would not hesitate to make full use of its toolbox, including interim measures, and on 18 February 2025 the Commission wrote that the Digital Services Act does not regulate speech. The Commission's first non-compliance decision under the Act, against X on 5 December 2025, fined X 120 million euros for blue-checkmark design, its advertising repository and researcher data access, and did not concern the removal of any post.