[ April 17, 2024 ]
“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.
Poland on the cutting edge of individual rights and liberty. Who’d a thunk it?
Poland to Pass Law Protecting Online Free Speech Against Big Tech Censorship
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.
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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.
From the Polish government’s perspective, however, such so-called interference is a constitutional duty: “The Constitution… guarantees full freedom of expression… Therefore, any manifestations of limiting it must meet with the reaction of the state to enable protection against interference with this freedom,” Kaleta insisted.
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84 Comments
3 years ago
I’m liking the Poles more and more each day.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bikinis not Burkas
They are a Christian nation. Go be a Christian in a Muslim nation, you may find your head impaled on a picket fence.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bikinis not Burkas
Poland, Czeck Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The only resisters to mass invasion…..That I know of, BnB.
3 years ago
Reply to
Frank
I’ve been watching a lot of Polka music lately on the Rural Channel. That has Polish roots, too, right?
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Polka music? I thought that was German? Rock N’ Roll and Jazz are American inventions and owe a lot to Black America, in the case of Jazz, maybe everything.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Polka is played by Czechs and Polish people, among others. Ethnic central Europeans.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Thanks I didn’t know. Is Polka the same as Oompa music? Or is that Germanic?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Similar, I think, Mud. Maybe more Bavarian, IDK. Germans like Polka, too. I just watch it because it’s not political, and some good, clean fun. Popular in middle America, where central Europeans settled.
It reminds me of Mariachi music, in that the bands are the same size, with similar type instruments. Both heavily ethnic.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Although it is believed that polka originated in Eastern Bohemia, it spread across the continent like wildfire.
French dancing schools made it so popular that they (the schools) had to hire ballerinas to teach the newly popular dance.
And, think of Johann Strauss II, “The Waltz King” …. He wrote numerous polkas.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Polka is believed to have originated in Eastern Bohemia (part of today’s Czech Republic) in 1834. It became very popular when French dancing schools started pushing it around 1840.
Germany is famous for polka, just look at any Octoberfest. Poland is famous as well.
Just think, supposedly the roots of polka are all owed to a little peasant girl, Anna Slezak, when she wrote, ” “Strycek Nimra Koupil Simla (Uncle Nimra brought a white horse)”.
Polka gets its name from “pulka”, which is Czech for “half-step”.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Thanks for the info, Achmed. I see the old people dancing on the Mollie B Show doing the half-step and wondered about it. The bands sing in Czech? and other Euro languages, so I didn’t know what they were singing about. Thanks.
3 years ago
You know that Poland isn’t full of ignorant libturds if they pass this law!!!
3 years ago
Something our own Congress refuses to do! GO FIGURE!
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Firstly they are not following their Oath of Office to Preserve and Protect the Constitution. Secondly, they don’t need legislation or pass new laws. We have the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that need to be enforced by the Executive and Judiciary. The legislature isn’t even in the picture unless we pass a law regulating the Techs, however this is redundant since they are denying basic rights of the citizen protected under the Bill of Rights.
3 years ago
Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing through Bill C-10 that will allow censorship and removal of any online content government bureaucrats in the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) find objectionable.
In future, Canadians will no longer be able to view such ‘objectionable’ sites like the Geller Report.
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
It is time to dump this piece of feces, Trudeau in Canada. Americans, as well, will face a similar Constitutional fate under the faux-Democrats. The so-called Republican Party is a gormless, gutless lot by-and-large, appeasing the Democrats’ wanton bent on eradicating the Constitutional Rights of ‘We the People.’
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
You are so right! The left is a known quantity of America-haters, Canada-haters, West-haters, white-haters, pro-Marxist sociopaths. The more insidious enemy is all the quislings on the right that bend over for every communist measure instituted by the left.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Trudeau is a lost cause. They have so any parties running against each other that it dilutes the vote and he gets re-elected. The Canada haters win.
If only the fraud about U.S. voting machines could come out, then our country would not be nearly as divided as it is. It’s propaganda that reinforces the divide. DEMS nearly always stick together on everything and the corrupt GOP establishment doesn’t want their corruptness exposed. Their corruptness unites them.
If only the fraud about U.S. voting machines could come out, then our country would not be nearly as divided as it is. It’s media propaganda and truth censorship academia hate your country that reinforces the divide.
DEMS nearly always stick together on everything and the corrupt GOP establishment doesn’t want their corruptness exposed. Their corruptness unites them. Now the GOPe is trying their best to talk others out of challenging the electoral vote.
They are eager to get back to swamp business. That recent bill of America last is evidence of that. They truly hate our country and especially legal U.S. citizens.
We are busily spending money we don’t have. We are lining ourselves up for massive inflation from lock downs and jobs shriveling up with our replacements coming in should Biden get successful. They want us totally government dependent and that includes any kind of charity that doesn’t help our enemies like Muslims disappearing too.
Lock downs will help get rid of more people through suicides, drug over doses, abuse and divorces. It’s just what they want. Destroy the nuclear family and have people at odds with one another. It will also help the weak lose faith in God – another plus for them. It’s a communist dream come true!
It’s a tragic situation with a consequence we will hate……
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Removal of religion started incrementally decades ago and look where we are now. No one can be civil to one another. Strip Clubs can operate no prob but churches no? Devil is at the helm now of the world with his disciples George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, and many players on both sides of the aisle. Driven by greed so powerful they are betraying the working people that are the fabric of the nation. Could they reap the harvest they have sown and never expected? I hope so as many folk I know have had enough.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The atheist West has abandoned reason and G-d for corruption, avarice and immoral degeneracy, perhaps it deserves to fall.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Fail? With intelligent experts like Pelosi in charge?
How could that possibly happen?
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
Trudeau hasn’t met a dictator* he hasn’t liked. He openly stated that he admires, as he called it, the dictatorship of China.
He sends China plague financial assistance to China, and has been giving China plague financial aid to China businesses with offices in Canada. The aid includes a Chinese bank with over a trillion US$ in funds, and a Chinese airline worth almost 100 billion dollars. Meanwhile, with the shutdown, he give pittance of support to Canadians.
He even gave the Wuhan research lab reputed to be the source of the plague, $820,000 after it was known to be the source,
Any journalist speaking out against him gets blackballed from his news briefs. During the last election he tried banning journalists from the leader’s debate until a court injunction prohibited him and his had picked commission from doing so. OH, BTW, he has a $595 million media fund where he gives money to those who praise him; I call it a bribe.
*Its believed that Fidel Castro was his actual father.
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
Trudeau has advocated for Sharia law to be implement in Canada, for sure.
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
I think I fingered that one out, he is a New World Order Cuckhold – most of these supposed elite would rather pay for their wife’s boyfriend and watch them screw, thinking you and I are of the same mindset which we aren’t – little potato would rather play dress-up and pretend to be black
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
Some Canadians want to secede from Canada. BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. They think the east are nuts.
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
Only cos he converted to Islam and has ignored the attacks and disappeared girls , the Canadians people suffer to pay high taxes while the migrants get a free pass hence one reason I voted to leave EU as they are corrupt and not for the people ! Marie le Penn shdve won but got half her ballots deemed damaged which was another steal hence the muslims have had it too good plus all the attacks even during Covid lockdowns we here they didn’t have papers to be out I bet but no a free pass and movement of people probably claiming in each country taking money as they have everything our own working class people with jobs don’t have ! Corruption that will bankrupt all our governments if not stopped and sent back ! Those that suffer for real don’t go round attacking others from host countries!
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
Frankly, it leaves me beyond unsettled. The likes Trudeau’s Liberals and
Biden’s faux-Democrats are one of the same. One’s Constitutional
Rights, or Democratic Rights have been nickeled and dimes to death over
the decades under so-called Liberalism.
Liberalism today is a mirage; it
is no more or less Communism hidden under the label Socialism.
Trudeau was weened on Mao’s Little Red Book, and the likes of Castro’s
Marxist regime. The same may be said about the so-called Democrats in
the good ol’ USA.
3 years ago
Americans from the sad-sack politicos to everyday Americans could learn a lot from Poland. Their history is one of being underfoot of totalitarian regimes, from the Nazis to the now-defunct Soviet Union. A nation that has struggled to cast off these despotic regimes’ despotic diktats. Unlike the U.S.A. and others of the once-upon-a-time Democracies desire and resolve never face this tyrannical purge again. However, we, Americans by-and-large, have acquiesced, folded to the so-called social network’s rampant censorship that favors the Left’s oppressive Marxist diktat.
I am not inferring those on this site or others of its ilk are part-and-parcel of this treasonous bent. The faux-Democrats and their legion of hangers-on differ not from the stated Nazi and Soviet regimes. It is apparent, too, that the People’s Republic of China has provided the template for the Democrat’s success.
No more Polish jokes, folks; they have suffered under such draconian regimes while many Americans took liberty for granted.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
When I was a child my Republican parents let it be known right from the beginning that there would never be any “Polish” jokes allowed or any other insults cast against people different from ourselves. At that time in the 1950’s it was very common to hear people tell jokes like that. Of course, most of those people were Democrats. Screwed up as my parents were from growing up in deep poverty in the Great Depression they did get a few things right.
3 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
Even today AT&T is shoving Poles into the ground.
By the way I am a Polak.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ron Gonshorowski
Goody! Can you get me in to Poland if I need to rather than be shipped off to a FEMA camp?
3 years ago
Reply to
Henry Lastname
Thanks, Henry, take care, Happy New Year or let’s pray that it will not get any worse.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Merry Xmas to you too Ziggy46 … I know, I Lived and eventually escaped the nightmare in 80’s . I was born and raised in a totalitarian East block country, now I’m a LEGAL immigrant and a proud US citizen.
3 years ago
Reply to
Henry Lastname
It is people such as you, Henry, that has made America great. Your personal history of being born and raised in an Eastern Bloc country speaks volumes. The latter of which many homegrown Americans have never experienced or witnessed. Unfortunately, they will soon taste the nasty, bilious toxicity of so-called Socialism, in truth Communism, under the faux-Democrat Party.
I have had many friends and colleagues of the Soviet Eastern Blocs over the decades and learned a lot from them all.
Take care, Henry; let’s hope the expunging of this political and social malignancy afflicting America today, as it did after the downfall of the Soviet Union. Happy New Year to you and yours.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Ziggy, thanks for supporting the Polish people. As for the “Polish jokes” in America, they first came out of the mouths of Poland-Haters in Hollywood and the Leftist Supremacist TV networks NBC-TV, ABC-TV & CBS-TV. decades ago. This is because in their minds, UP is DOWN, DOWN is UP, BAD is GOOD, GOOD is BAD, DUMB (Leftists) are SMART and SMART is DUMB…..hence their hatching and promoting of anti-Polish “Polish jokes” on NATIONAL TELEVISION. This was meant to brainwash the public to believe Polish people are “dumb” and that the public have the same anti-Polish prejudice that they have.
And the ironic thing is, these Anti-Polish media people have always claimed to be against the Nazi Germans and their Nazi propaganda…….EXCEPT when it’s against Polish people. The Nazi Germans viewed Polish people as “subhumans” with “subhuman intelligence” and originated this “Polish joke” propaganda among their Nazi Propaganda. It’s quite sick and hypocritical of the Leftist Supremacists in the “American” media to hate Polish people so much….that they feel the need to use their mass media to degrade Polish people WITH Anti-Polish Nazi hate propaganda stereotypes of Poles.
3 years ago
Reply to
Richard Harris
I, as mentioned above, have had many Polish friends and colleagues over the decades. But for one, most loved their nation, a nation about which many Westerners know very little but the lame jokes. Non-Leftist/Marxist Americans must now borrow a page from Poland’s Solidarity stand against the totalitarian bent Democrats. If not, we will be the joke of the world, not Poland or others we also deride.
Happy New Year, Richard, to you and yours. Thanks for the link, I will look at it now.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Sad, but true …
*** Happy New Year to you and yours, Ziggy!
… and a happy new year to everyone passing by…
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Happy New Year to you and yours, too, Dan. It’s great hearing from you; I hope all is well in the great state of Texas. Just take care, stay safe, healthy, and vigilant. 2020 has been a year of conjuring politically and health-wise… the Democrat contagion will make COVID seem like a mere sniffle.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Well … I’m sure you’re right, unfortunately … we will look back at 2020, and wonder what went wrong …
… we’re doing good her … and we’re all prepared …
… I took my template for survival under a Chicom regime from my Russian friends …
*** You and yours hang in there!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Indeed, Dan, I’m looking back wondering about 2020. Glad to hear everyone is well and you are prepared for the ultimate aftermath. The template for survival, I’m sure, is formidable. If anyone throughout their history knows about survival it is the Russian people. Let’s hope that 2021 is not what I expect or foresee… then again, it has unfolded thus far as we all suspected. Stay safe, healthy, and under the radar.
3 years ago
Very good by Poland.
3 years ago
Our president is trying to free us from a law that makes big tech censorship legal .
3 years ago
Reply to
Victor
If that dam could break it would make a world of difference. Our country would be less divided if it wasn’t so censored. Section 230 has to go! Section 230 is being used by big tech to CENSOR us with no liability. It was passed as law back in 1996 against indecency and now being used in a broader sense for truth censorship. Legislation needs to be passed to stop the censorship!
3 years ago
On the cutting edge, again. Dobris Veychure.
3 years ago
Our US ☭ongress and ☭ommunist China took the opposite direction to ALLOW harshly censored free speech!
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
It’s more than what you are saying. In order to keep the Chinese market, Zuckerberg, handed over to the Chinese a filter system to block out negative Sino comments AND track down those making them. I’m sure you can imagine the outcome once a dissident is caught in China or list of external dissidents is kept. In addition, FB sent Kaplan to Pakistan to see how FB can comply with blasphemy laws. An agreement was made so FB could keep their market share and be halal. The price was a system to filter out non-Islam compliant comments and track down blasphemers. The penalty for blasphemy in Pakistan is death. So, it can be said that FB is aiding and abetting in the deaths of those speaking their minds about religion.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack Holan
Jack H did not know that. For over 6 years I had a programmer I hired from outsourcing site. As we shared views on pandemic after I made clear my position of “dont tread on me” he has disappeared likely to avoid scrutiny being associated with an opinionated American. Losing my life would be enough pressure for me to comply if I were in Pakistan, but here in America myself and many others ready to go.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack Holan
400 protestors were arrested on the streets and disappeared from Hong Kong in January 2019. What became of them I never found out.
3 years ago
Finally a nation that stands up for the free speech for us little people (against the tech giants). This is desperately needed in all western nations.
Islam and fascism can only win when they are able to silence their critics. I truly hope other countries follow suit. They should split the revenue from those fines with those of us who were censored or banned off these sites.
Once the social media giants start paying hefty fines, they’ll learn their lesson.
3 years ago
Polish people were jailed as a nation by commies and nazis for 50 years they know what commie Democrats will do to Americans once in total power
3 years ago
Reply to
Andrew
They also know that no one will defend you if you do not do it yourself.
3 years ago
Finally, a country has made itself a reasonable model in a thought out plan with a rational raison de etere preserving Freedom of Speech/Expression under the Law and their Constitution and cutting the Big Techs down to size. All I can say is Bravo and when are the other so called Democracies with the Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Equality Liberty Fraternity, going to follow Poland’s lead?
3 years ago
This is a surprise and it is very good.
3 years ago
In America, Leftists are encouraging Big Tech to censor and control news and too many American college students now believe socialism is good (whatever that means) and that free speech should not give you the right to offend someone.
Either Poland is wrong or America is failing. I’m betting on the latter.
3 years ago
Thank you Poland!!
3 years ago
If this passes then all of us should use an IP hide that has a Polish address. That would stop them from censoring us I believe.
3 years ago
YouTube has shut one of my channels for telling the truth about Islam!
3 years ago
I hope the Polish Court where the complaint is lodged against Big Tech is free!
3 years ago
KUDOS TO THE PEOPLE OF POLAND AND THEIR BRAVE GOVERNMENT !
NOW…
Should we again watch inactively how a GERMAN ideology and dictatorial machinery is overwhelming Europe and assaults and invades Poland – the third time ?!
This time with “HEIL MERKEL”!?
AND SHOULD WE WATCH INACTIVELY HOW THE DICTATORIAL MACHINERY OF THE DEMOCRATS-CCP-DEEP-STATE-ALLIANCE IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WHOLE USA ?!
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !
3 years ago
Reply to
PHAETOR HERKAN
I can’t imagine being Polish or Czech in the 20th century — first you live under the Nazi jackboot then the Communist boot heel.
3 years ago
In Poland, Hungary, Japan and South Korea, you will note that they do not have Islamic terrorist attacks common in the States and Western Europe. I pity the US in electing CCP Dementia Biden who will let the Muslim hordes in and make China great. Polska jeszcze nie zginęła i do diabła z Sorosem.
3 years ago
What should really be done is for the Visegrad countries to begin covertly monitoring all communications from any of the various technocratic companies like Gulag, Youtube, FascistBook, Twitter etc. to find out who they are collaborating with across the totalitarian world (i.e. Communist, muslum states, EU, various political parties), what their compensation is for said collaboration and what their end game is.
3 years ago
God bless Poland.
3 years ago
This is helpful news. I am beginning to wonder if I will soon have to leave the USA for a country that hasn’t been dumbed down into national suicide. At a minimum I may have to leave formerly conservative North Carolina.
3 years ago
It’s a bout time, because they never reply to me when they ban me. They can still respond to wiggle out of it, unless there’s a watcher. And who is the watcher?
3 years ago
Poland has it right. No country can allow a private entity to become more powerful than their own government.
Big tech, and the media have chosen a side. The side of the Communists! This is intolerable with the power they wield to influence elections. They MUST be whipped out of their boots if they won’t stay out of politics.
3 years ago
Always good with Poland to take a stand against the left on many issues
3 years ago
Cheers for Poland!
3 years ago
Wish we all had laws like that as at least Poland refused refugees inside towns preferring to keep them in huts on the border , they know how to keep out these migrants who are definitely a Covid threat as they refuse to obey our laws !
3 years ago
Poland was almost destroyed by the Nazis.
Then they suffered under Soviet domination including martial law.
Poles know what suppression of free speech is like.
Go Poland!
3 years ago
Aren’t they just the “Best of all Peoples!”
3 years ago
The Polish people fully understand censorship, tyranny, torture, genocides and now Hope.
May they not forget as Europe and young American’s who have never yet learned…!
