In Congress, UK's Nigel Farage attacks his own government on tech rules

A House hearing on online speech quickly turned into a transatlantic slap fight.A House Judiciary Committee hearing on free speech and tech regulations Wednesday morning quickly turned into a transatlantic political argument about whether online content rules amount to an attack on Western values.Online safety laws in the European Union and the U.K. have created an “awful, authoritarian situation,” said Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.’s right-wing Reform Party on Wednesday morning.The hearing, hosted by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), marks an escalation in Jordan’s war on Europe’s tech regulations — part of a yearslong effort to pressure Europe...