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Poland to Pass Law Protecting Online Free Speech Against Big Tech Censorship
Breitbart ^ | 12/26/20 | JACK MONTGOMERY

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; freespeech; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; internet; online; poland; polexit; socialmedia; technotyranny
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Love it!

Go Poland!!!

1 posted on 12/26/2020 2:41:43 PM PST by Enlightened1
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How sad that Poland is more of a free nation than our own
on this point.


2 posted on 12/26/2020 2:48:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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To: Enlightened1

So if we all register as polish citizens w polish IP dresses?


3 posted on 12/26/2020 2:49:28 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: DoughtyOne

Poland is blessed.


4 posted on 12/26/2020 2:50:04 PM PST by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Enlightened1

Brawo Polska!


5 posted on 12/26/2020 2:53:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoughtyOne

One reason I’m seriously looking at the Gdansk/Sopot/Gdynia area.


6 posted on 12/26/2020 2:53:48 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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polish IP dresses

Like this?


7 posted on 12/26/2020 2:57:13 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Enlightened1

Poland is now the freeest county.


8 posted on 12/26/2020 3:02:40 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: RebelTXRose

Something is gong right with them, that’s for sure.


9 posted on 12/26/2020 3:04:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

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.


10 posted on 12/26/2020 3:04:21 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for the mention.


11 posted on 12/26/2020 3:04:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (foreign collusions did happen, it just wasn't 2016 when it happened)
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To: Enlightened1

Exactly what we need here. The tech behemoths are using freedom of speech to destroy freedom of speech, capitalism to destroy capitalism.


12 posted on 12/26/2020 3:05:15 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam, )
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Our former Soviet Block friends have antibodies.

In America we have ... antifa's ... the disease itself masquerading as antibodies.

13 posted on 12/26/2020 3:06:41 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: yldstrk

country.


14 posted on 12/26/2020 3:09:22 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Enlightened1

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.


15 posted on 12/26/2020 3:09:25 PM PST by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: Enlightened1

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


16 posted on 12/26/2020 3:15:02 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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Kristof. Are not the land of the CCP sellouts like we are...gotta take a trip there assuming Trump pulls this out.


17 posted on 12/26/2020 3:16:23 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Take back our stolen republic or move to a cattle car of their choosing...)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

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.


18 posted on 12/26/2020 3:16:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


19 posted on 12/26/2020 3:34:12 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Enlightened1

Can I immigrate? Umm Perogy’s, Brewski’s and some pretty Ladies.


20 posted on 12/26/2020 3:38:28 PM PST by DAC21 (S)
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