[American Liberty News] Last November, I issued a warning. The United Kingdom’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC), then working its way through Parliament, was not a benign act of consumer protection. It was a deliberate regulatory incursion into the global tech economy, dressed up in bureaucratic language to obscure its true aims. At the time, many critics scoffed. They said I was exaggerating, engaging in nationalist chest-thumping, or mistaking precaution for aggression.
But as of June 15, 2025, the facts speak for themselves. Everything I warned about is now happening. The DMCC has come into force. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun investigations. The UK has given itself the tools, and now it is beginning to wield them. The opening salvos of regulatory warfare have already been fired.
It is not too late to act. But if President Trump does not move swiftly to counter this effort, the full brunt of British regulation will fall not merely on US tech firms, but on the very engine of American innovation. The time for euphemism is over. The DMCC is not a friendly nudge toward market fairness. It is an act of economic aggression.
Let us be precise. The DMCC’s digital markets provisions went into effect on January 1, 2025. These provisions allow the CMA to designate companies as having "Strategic Market Status" (SMS), a vaguely defined category that places firms under ex-ante regulatory supervision. That is, the CMA can now impose rules not in response to demonstrated wrongdoing, but preemptively, based on the suspicion that dominance might lead to harm. Such powers invert the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law: that enforcement follows evidence, not mere potential.
That which they cannot take for themselves, they hand over to the communists. 
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