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Posted on 12/26/2020 2:41:43 PM PST by Enlightened1
Poland’s national conservative government has detailed a new law protecting free speech online against Big Tech censorship, backed by a new court and big fines.
Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro has announced the draft ‘Act for the Freedom to Express One’s Views and Obtain and Disseminate Information on the Internet’ will give social media users a statutory right to appeal bans and content removals on social media platforms such as Facebook on Twitter, which they will be able to escalate to a new Court for the Protection of Freedom of Speech in a streamlined, all-digital process.
If the new court rules that the tech censors have removed accounts or deleted posts for speech which is legal under Polish law, they must be restored — or the social media firms involved will face fines of as much as 1.8 million euros, enforced by the Slavic country’s Office of Electronic Communications, according to reports.
“In Germany, the Minister of Justice may arbitrarily decide what content needs to be eliminated from the Internet. This is the introduction of censorship. We want to balance the freedom of public debate,” Ziobro explained of the planned legislation recently.
“We want to regulate the relationship between social media users and their owners… It is primarily about censorship when expressing opinions that are consistent with Polish law”, added deputy minister Sebastian Kaleta elsewhere.
Many on the right in the United Kingdom and the United States have suggested that, while they are not happy with what Ziobro has described as “ideological censorship” by tech giants, they prefer the status quo to “the government getting involved” in the affairs of private businesses.
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Go Poland!!!
How sad that Poland is more of a free nation than our own
on this point.
So if we all register as polish citizens w polish IP dresses?
Poland is blessed.
Brawo Polska!
One reason I’m seriously looking at the Gdansk/Sopot/Gdynia area.
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Poland is now the freeest county.
Something is gong right with them, that’s for sure.
Oddly, I have a California reared cousin who, with her husband, took out Irish citizenship and moved to Paris for an advanced degree. My cousin and her husband are now fluent French speakers and very liberal but find that Poland is the most pleasant, orderly, and open-hearted country in the EU.
Thanks for the mention.
Exactly what we need here. The tech behemoths are using freedom of speech to destroy freedom of speech, capitalism to destroy capitalism.
In America we have ... antifa's ... the disease itself masquerading as antibodies.
country.
God bless Poland! What America might have looked like if PDJT served a second term.
But not even four years of a Harris regime will be as bad as was forty years of Soviet domination.
Poland, a former Warsaw Pact communist country now protects the freedoms of its citizens more than America does. America is the ‘Land of the Free’ indeed. /sarc
Kristof. Are not the land of the CCP sellouts like we are...gotta take a trip there assuming Trump pulls this out.
Looks like Krakow, in that pic, wonderful city.
Best thing to do in Poland is the Wieliczka Salt Mines, about an hour away from Krakow.
It is Krakow. Zoom in on the pic and you will see it is the last word on the blueish shop sign in the background.
Can I immigrate? Umm Perogy’s, Brewski’s and some pretty Ladies.
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