Poland Takes the Lead, Proposes $13.5M Fines for Big Tech Censorship

Human Events ^ | February 19, 2021 | Staff

[CheshireTheCat]

Poland is taking a stand against the Big Tech conglomerate, proposing whopping fines for platforms that censor or remove posts for ideological reasons, according to the country’s Deputy Minister of Justice Sebastian Kaleta.

In a Fox News interview, Kaleta said social media companies have been targeting Christianity, conservatives and traditional values through their blacklisting and removal of posts.

“We see that when Big Tech decides to remove content for political purposes, it’s mostly content which praises traditional values or praises conservatism,” Kaleta said. “It is deleted under their ‘hate speech policy’ when it has no legal right to do so.”

Under the new proposed legislation, any platform that censors a post or bans a user for ideological reasons would face a fine of $13.5 million unless the content is illegal under Polish law, the Epoch Times reports.

And, an arbitration committee will be set up to oversee inevitable disputes....

[wjcsux]

Poland lived under the boot of Communism for many decades, they know propaganda and censorship when they see it.

[FLT-bird]

Excellent. Russia is doing this as well. Uganda did it too and several more countries are considering similar legislation. I wish we’d adopt it here.

[dearolddad]

I wonder if they tell American jokes in Poland.

The way things are going now America is a joke.