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# ![@prestonjbyrne Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::151936663.png) @prestonjbyrne Preston Byrne

Preston Byrne posts on X about fine, the first, australia, 4chan the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence

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[countries](/list/countries)  #5017 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[fine](/topic/fine) #273, [the first](/topic/the-first) 5.21%, [australia](/topic/australia) #109, [4chan](/topic/4chan) #25, [house of](/topic/house-of) #630, [social media](/topic/social-media) #2498, [shield](/topic/shield) #146, [free speech](/topic/free-speech) #88, [united states](/topic/united-states) #1251, [the british](/topic/the-british) XXXX%

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Congress: it is time to nuke Europe from orbit on this issue. The UK went after 4chan. The EU is going after X. They want control of our Internet. This is a national security issue at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996922330669633926)  2025-12-05T12:39Z 73.6K followers, 81.1K engagements


"GRANITE Act is really simple. 1) Americans shielded from censorship 2) As long as Europeans don't threaten Americans over their First Amendment rights GRANITE's retaliatory provisions are dormant 3) If an American is threatened GRANITE creates a thermonuclear legal response"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997288649436893312)  2025-12-06T12:54Z 73.6K followers, 79.3K engagements


"X Corp isn't operating in Europe. Its HQ is in Bastrop Texas. There might be a local opco somewhere on the continent but it isn't providing the service. Unless you're saying you want all U.S. tech cos to fire all European staff or move them here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997684125776667075)  2025-12-07T15:06Z 73.6K followers, 12.4K engagements


"US: freedom of speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say. EUR: freedom of speech means we use state power to protect favored ideas and punish disfavored ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998169692696113541)  2025-12-08T23:15Z 73.6K followers, 63K engagements


"HOLY SHIT. US GOVT OFFICIAL SAYS THE GRANITE ACT IS BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPEAT: THE US HOUSE IS CONSIDERING THE GRANITE ACT FOREIGN CENSORSHIP SHIELD LAW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996398535189860688)  2025-12-04T01:57Z 73.6K followers, 295.9K engagements


"New letter from Ofcom just now. Came in for 4chan. Theyre expanding their investigation. No thanks Ofcom. Americans arent listening to you anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996578781037830311)  2025-12-04T13:54Z 73.6K followers, 47.5K engagements


"@JDVance I hear the House of Representatives has a bill the GRANITE Act that'll fix this and allow X to sue the Commission for 3x the threatened fine. America can stop foreign censors for good. You should get on the horn with some folks and ask them to push it through"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996706280350929202)  2025-12-04T22:20Z 73.6K followers, 455.4K engagements


"The UK and Europe are so screwed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997060690117276107)  2025-12-05T21:49Z 73.6K followers, 176.7K engagements


"Like I dont care what the DSA and Online Safety Act say or that the First Amendment doesnt apply in Bruges. In the battle for control of the Internet America must win and Europe must lose. And America will win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997378886020010139)  2025-12-06T18:53Z 73.6K followers, 56.7K engagements


"You know what's chilling right now I am with this big old bucket of popcorn 😎🍿🦅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998140120030212256)  2025-12-08T21:18Z 73.6K followers, 6426 engagements


"@Arceris_btc Most tiny American Internet companies have no money in Europe. They're judgment-proof. Europe has piles of money in America. It's not judgment-proof. If Europe wants to not get sued all it has to do is not threaten Americans and our free speech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998157019497521273)  2025-12-08T22:25Z 73.6K followers, 3272 engagements


"A client got their first letter from Australian eSafety. This was our reply. The US government was copied"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998221470020030712)  2025-12-09T02:41Z 73.6K followers, 637.9K engagements


"It's a free speech issue. X has a First Amendment right to issue a blue check to whomever it wants for whatever fucking reason it wants and the EU is not entitled to intrude on that choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996982835178025241)  2025-12-05T16:39Z 73.6K followers, 23.3K engagements


"It was a defamation case. Was pretty funny. The other side was turbo pissed Bought the client enough time to let Craig Wright self-immolate in the High Court in an unrelated case be ordered not to call himself "Satoshi" anymore and the UK case eventually was dismissed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997695924035047893)  2025-12-07T15:53Z 73.6K followers, 5225 engagements


"Bitcoin can't get fined by the European Union"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997734361312198901)  2025-12-07T18:26Z 73.6K followers, 7422 engagements


"@Arceris_btc Colin also indexed the statutory fines to M2 which is uniquely Bitcoiner-cruel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998140379410141544)  2025-12-08T21:19Z 73.6K followers, 2925 engagements


"If America enacts the GRANITE Act the EU will have a very hard time getting its hands on our money and having access to the banking system at the same time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998410045495906423)  2025-12-09T15:10Z 73.6K followers, 21.3K engagements


"Australians should download VPN apps disobey this policy and resist it by any and all means required"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1995496070554759198)  2025-12-01T14:11Z 73.6K followers, 74.3K engagements


"You could stop prosecuting 13000 people a year for tweets and thoughtcrime. That would get rid of a good chunk of the backlog without eliminating a thousand year old right to trial by jury"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1995946488900571146)  2025-12-02T20:01Z 73.6K followers, 126.9K engagements


"If the Feds enact anything like the Wyoming version of the GRANITE Act eSafetys power to touch US companies will be permanently destroyed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996444350461645301)  2025-12-04T04:59Z 73.5K followers, 7578 engagements


"I confirm on behalf of my client that we have flipped Ofcom the bird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996748751663431781)  2025-12-05T01:09Z 73.6K followers, 80.7K engagements


"The fourth time a European country threatened to arrest one of my American clients for exercising their First Amendment rights was the second I stopped giving a shit about Europes rules and decided to architect American rules to destroy them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997375563510526087)  2025-12-06T18:40Z 73.6K followers, 409.3K engagements


"If Congress gives the US free speech bar the GRANITE Act the notices inbound to the United States will stop. If they don't stop I can have a lawsuit filed within XX hours of the first UK enforcement demand that crosses our border after enactment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997532787281166442)  2025-12-07T05:05Z 73.6K followers, 8978 engagements


"If EU law mandates that Americans lose their First Amendment rights then that EU law must be destroyed. If not by domestic EU political action (repeal) then by domestic US political action (censorship shield laws and trade sanctions)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997682258715799849)  2025-12-07T14:59Z 73.6K followers, 126.9K engagements


"The strategy worked because the UK was in the EU at the time so as soon as a Norway court was seised of the case arguments could be made that the UK court had no jurisdiction. Similar to the "Italian Torpedo" maneuver in IP law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997700937889296595)  2025-12-07T16:13Z 73.6K followers, 4734 engagements


"It's that magical time of year when happiness is in the air of the smell of spices and cinnamon and Christmas cheer. And I have to grind through XX hours of CLE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998103640796766494)  2025-12-08T18:53Z 73.6K followers, 2734 engagements


"I absolutely believe it. I represent multiple Americans who have been threatened with arrest by the UK for exercising their constitutional rights. Everything our government has to say about Europe on the question of free speech is true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998124943184457989)  2025-12-08T20:18Z 73.6K followers, 969.2K engagements


"It's interesting. When you take pot shots at Australia or the UK on censorship there is almost no nationalistic domestic pushback on X. Take pot shots at the EU loads of Ukraine flags-in-the-bio dogpile in minutes. It's almost like the EU is running a disinfo operation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998428803404534113)  2025-12-09T16:25Z 73.6K followers, 17.6K engagements


"My clients are US-situs with no Australian presence. Australia is trying to control US speech and conduct extraterritorially. If Australia wants to put a censorship box on the lines leading into that country that's their decision. They don't get to tell Americans what to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998458842783351279)  2025-12-09T18:24Z 73.6K followers, 49.9K engagements


"I have a hard time believing that anyone at Ofcom actually believes that jailing operators of lawful American webforums is a pro-freedom move but Im looking forward to making fun of that line from now until eternity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1993632469334024646)  2025-11-26T10:46Z 71.7K followers, XXX engagements


"X hosts content that the censors dont like BlueSky hosts content from the censors ideological allies Simple as that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1994400778384208113)  2025-11-28T13:39Z 73.6K followers, 6156 engagements


""'Excellent bedding for my pet hamster' was the verdict of US lawyer Preston Byrne on a stern letter from Ofcom the British internet and media regulator.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1995615644893807008)  2025-12-01T22:07Z 70.9K followers, 7819 engagements


"Hamster diplomacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1995634900096221312)  2025-12-01T23:23Z 70.9K followers, 1656 engagements


"Interesting question if the European Commission fines someone is that a foreign state Or would you just sue all of the EU states as joint tortfeasors Make sure you pick that up in the drafting federal bros. If you can get something agreed we'll work it in for NH/WY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996707837469466684)  2025-12-04T22:27Z 73.6K followers, 10.2K engagements


"@AB20080701 @JDVance I drafted the model @Arceris_btc drafted the bill. We are currently updating it to account for the EU as we were hyper focused on the UK on earlier versions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996717943753732408)  2025-12-04T23:07Z 72.6K followers, 8387 engagements


".@arceris_btc already modified the Wyoming draft to keep up with a potential EU fine vs X. Iterating fast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996741777189933279)  2025-12-05T00:41Z 70.9K followers, 7895 engagements


"Fining and jailing the British for interfering with us is not necessary. Loosing hordes of US trial lawyers on them will be plenty. After we're done protecting America I'm going back to the UK to finish the job: getting Parliament to enact a British First Amendment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996938204528665065)  2025-12-05T13:42Z 70.9K followers, 7846 engagements


"More data points 1) I drafted the model bill Colin Crossman in Wyoming did the real Wyoming bill based on that model. 2) Wyoming bill filed New Hampshire bill moving forward and will be filed. 3) I am a simple country lawyer living quietly in New England not the Beltway so I only have access to decisionmakers in the states. I know nothing more about the federal process than what's been publicly revealed. If they federalize the Wyoming text that would be *incredible.* But I have zero visibility into that process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996977968896250364)  2025-12-05T16:20Z 70.9K followers, XXX engagements


""The 'GRANITE Act' described as a legal 'atomic bomb'" What can I say. @Arceris_btc and I saw what the British were doing to Americans and it made us extremely angry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997018314787184935)  2025-12-05T19:00Z 71.3K followers, 4580 engagements


"To give you some idea of how quickly GRANITE Act is catching fire: Oct. 13th: v0.8 published on my blog Nov. 14th: v1 Wyoming GRANITE drafted Nov. 20th: v3 Wyoming GRANITE filed Dec. 3rd: revealed v0. federal GRANITE Dec. 5th: all over X Wyoming on v7 NH working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997040509458547003)  2025-12-05T20:28Z 70.9K followers, 2164 engagements


"@hasufl Because they dont get to tell Americans how to run our servers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997061925545672839)  2025-12-05T21:54Z 73.3K followers, 15.4K engagements


"@brucefenton @cantbesilentcal Also @Arceris_btc (another member of our tribe) converted the thing into an actual fileable bill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997320671827804558)  2025-12-06T15:02Z 70.9K followers, XXX engagements


"I'm actually a dual-qualified US-UK lawyer and dual US-EU citizen. So I'm a European too and understand all too well that the DSA and OSA were designed to destroy the First Amendment. When the chips are down I'm always going to take America's side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997419712007786578)  2025-12-06T21:35Z 73.4K followers, 47.8K engagements


"The only resources required to get things as far as we've gotten them so far: X chronically online commercial lawyer (yours truly) X litigator (@roncoleman) X one legislative draftsman (@Arceris_btc) and X state legislator (@RepDanielSingh) followed by rapid federal buy-in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997478906543140939)  2025-12-07T01:30Z 73K followers, 2889 engagements


"I wonder whether the European commission timed its fine against X to try to drag this issue out until the midterms. What they dont know is that the UK was out the gate in January so everyone in Washington has a position on this already"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997774953031070135)  2025-12-07T21:07Z 70.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@Arceris_btc When were done killing foreign censorship we should team up again and kill the GDPR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998158914680914373)  2025-12-08T22:33Z 73.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@RichardBentall Here you go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998560276841640122)  2025-12-10T01:07Z 73.6K followers, 3075 engagements


"The GRANITE Act would allow X to sue the European Commission in U.S. federal court for three times this amount and get injunctive relief against the Commission's orders. Congress should enact it ASAP to head off this European censorship attempt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996703098610631071)  2025-12-04T22:08Z 73.6K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Everyone who supports the GRANITE Act should reply to JD here and ask him to push for its rapid enactment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1996705854595412220)  2025-12-04T22:19Z 73.5K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Euros seem mad about the possibility that GRANITE might be a thing Dont you know the first amendment doesnt apply outside the U.S. Very aware. Thats why GRANITE creates a civil action that allows US courts to order U.S. based assets seized. Our country. Our rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997367984575189221)  2025-12-06T18:10Z 73.6K followers, 80.8K engagements


"The EU is a glorified museum. Its days bossing around America where the future lives are over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997404246459682864)  2025-12-06T20:34Z 73.6K followers, 15.5K engagements


"Europeans screaming about the looming US response to their censorship rules Americans understand Europe's position. We understand your jurisdictional arguments under your local law where the deck is deliberately stacked against American companies. We don't care what you think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997728105499340845)  2025-12-07T18:01Z 73.6K followers, 9662 engagements


"Longform blog post: "What the world might look like if we get a federal GRANITE Act.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1997834366177939933)  2025-12-08T01:03Z 73.6K followers, 31.9K engagements


"Europeans don't understand the First Amendment. They have been intruding on it for a long time. But they intruded too far they delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of a New Hampshire winter: American activist lawyers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998059614831784243)  2025-12-08T15:58Z 73.6K followers, 7468 engagements


"Stopping the world from censoring Americans is the starting point Stopping the world from censoring anyone is the finish line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998187644308840498)  2025-12-09T00:27Z 73.6K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Australia presents to the United States the exact same threat that the UK and EU do. The timing is not coincidental. All three sovereigns programmed their regimes to come online at the same time. We have a very short window as a country to shut it down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998227258981724545)  2025-12-09T03:04Z 73.6K followers, 97.8K engagements


"@baxter_daniel They're not in Australia. They are literally as far away from Australia as possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1998466793346658444)  2025-12-09T18:56Z 73.6K followers, 2757 engagements