[LeChuck]

A bit of a tangent here. I'm not a native English speaker but is it me or is this text badly written?

> The European Union and certain EU Member States have persisted in a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives against U.S. service providers.

Persisted in a continuing course, saying the same thing twice.

> In stark contrast, EU service providers have been able to operate freely in the United States for decades, benefitting from access to our market and consumers on a level playing field.

"Benefiting" is spelled with one t.

> If the EU and EU Member States insist on continuing to restrict, limit, and deter the competitiveness of U.S. service providers through discriminatory means...

Again, restricting and limiting mean the same thing. Also, can you deter competitiveness?

[Avshalom]

Authoritarianism selects against competence.

[qcnguy]

Benefitting can be spelled with two Ts. It's more commonly a British English spelling, and British English is often taught to non-native speakers in school. Using "harassing" as an adjective is also the kind of mistake non-native speakers make. Probably whoever wrote this tweet didn't learn English in America.