The Executive Director for Foundation for Freedom Online, Mike Benz, and U.S. virologist and inventor of mRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, moderated a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) discussing online censorship in the West. The panel discussed the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires content moderation on certain online platforms, which has been used to infringe on Americans' First Amendment protections. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, released a report in February detailing how the E.U. used the DSA to effectively export censorship to the US and other countries. Benz and Malone argued that the European Commission used this tactic to pressure platforms into altering their global content moderation rules. Benz also shared his thoughts on the censorship industrial complex, which operates globally and involves government, private sector, nonprofits, and media working together to achieve this censorship state. While the Trump administration has done a significant amount of work to clean out the censorship apparatus in the US, Benz warned that the problem isn't going away and that the "censorship class in exile" in Europe remains a key issue.