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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prefer the status quo to “the government getting involved” in the affairs of private businesses.....
Unless you own a bakery and don’t want to back a cake.
Govt didn’t keep their nose out of that !
It will be ironic to say the least if the Eastern Bloc ends up saving Western Civilization.
I never ever thought there would ever come a time that I would want to relocate the eastern block!!!
Seriously, what is the enforcement mechanism here?
I guess you think that the federal government should eliminate laws that prevent telephone carriers from terminating your phone call when you say something on a call that the carrier does not agree with?
In the past it would have taken an expensive army of paid spy's monitoring calls to make that happen. Today with with AI voice recognition and AI sentiment analysis they could and would do it in real-time with software if they could get away with it.
Bond with the Poles.
They went through hell to get there.
I think you miss read my sentiment
They allow censorship because they say
“Govt shouldn’t get involved in private business “
But they had no problem closing down a bakery
Cause the private owner wouldn’t bake a queer cake.
My apologies for misreading your sentiment.
Large corporations will always abuse the rights of Americans if there are no laws prohibiting them from doing so.
This is brilliant. Gotta start somewhere.
Agreed.....and there will be no laws
as long as the big guys keep “donating”
If the small business guy could make handouts in same
He’d get protection too........
That square has changed a lot since I was first there in 1991. It was cold and gray with foul air (brown heating coal) and very limited dining options back then. No kebab! Student food and stuffy state run restaurants only. Most Poles spoke no English at that time. Or maybe the girls just didn’t like me. Ha ha.
I got one of the last tourist visas to Poland. While I was there they dropped that requirement for American tourists.
Nothing like a good old “Bar Mleczny”, I went to one in Warsaw a few years ago, and I mean it was the real deal, it was on the Praga side, and it was like stepping into a time warp.
But Warsaw has changed so much, I think it’s quickly becoming one of the best cities in Europe to visit.
Happy to hear this about my paternal ancestral homeland. Now go after the Catholic Church for covering up decades of pederasty and abuse rather than covering for them.
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