Posted on 01/16/2021 1:43:58 PM PST by knighthawk
Poland’s government has unveiled a draft law to combat censorship on social media, creating a Freedom of Speech Board with the power to order tech firms to restore online accounts and posts deleted for lawful speech on pain of substantial fines.
Zbigniew Ziobro, the Minister of Justice, and Sebastian Kaleta, the Deputy Minister of Justice and chief architect of the new law, unveiled the new protections in the wake of the mass banning of the still-sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump, from most major social media platforms, along with some key staffers and campaign accounts.
This was followed by the removal of Parler, a free speech oriented microblogging platform similar to Twitter, the American leader’s primary online megaphone, from the Apple and Google Play app stores, followed by Amazon, which hosted its servers, wiping it off the internet entirely.
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Gee, don’t ya wish we in the USA had that?
it’s time to move to a free country like Poland. I don’t speak Polish. But I have used shoe polish so they may accept me. I may parlay my pot of pennies into a Polish Parler to promote fwee speech.
Dzień Dobry - Hello
Dziękuję - Thank you
Gdzie jest toaleta? - Where is the bathroom?
You’re all set!
Does Facebook and Twitter have servers in Poland?
Democrats wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot...
Poland has seen this movie before.
Three times at least!
I think I saw what you did there
“Three Times ‘Yes’”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Polish_people%27s_referendum
Haf ta go to the former soviet union for free speech.
No, I meant Tsarist Russia, the Nazis, and the communists.
Ahh. Still I always reference that 1946 Plebiscite as how Communists do elections.
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