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Poland threatens hefty fines for social media companies that censor legal speech, users everywhere celebrate 21 Dec, 2020 17:49

[rt.com]

Social media companies that remove posts whose content is legal can be fined up to €1.8 million under a new Polish bill. Users have welcomed its introduction as an antidote to other countries’ growing censorship demands.

Any social media company that removes content or blocks accounts that do not violate Polish law can be fined under the new legislation, announced in a press conference on Thursday by Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro. The bill also creates a special Court for the Protection of Freedom of Speech within one of the district courts.

Individuals whose posts have been censored will have the right to complain to the platform in question, which has 24 hours to respond. The user then has 48 hours to petition the new court to have their content reinstated, and the court then has seven days to consider the petition.

If the court finds in favor of the user and the social media platform does not restore the content or unblock the account, they will be fined up to €1.8 million by the Office of Electronic Communications. The whole process will happen online, according to Ziobro.

The victims of “ideological censorship” are unfairly quashed by social media platforms “just because they express views and refer to values that are unacceptable from the point of view of communities…with an ever-stronger influence on the functioning of social media,” the justice minister said.

The user of social media must feel that his rights are protected. Nor can there be any censorship of speech. Freedom of speech and freedom of debate are the essence of democracy.

The new court will also be tasked with handling blocking requests regarding content that does violate Polish law. Additionally, it will handle a new type of “blind” lawsuit in which someone who is wronged by an anonymous party on the internet can file a lawsuit to correct the wrong, even without the defendant’s personal data. All that would be needed for such a suit is the offender’s username, the website where the offending post was made, and the date and time of posting.

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And then there are the dictatorial Democrats demanding Big Tech companies suspend Trump's account.
Oh how the left's hypocrisy REEKS! Hey BigMike, get back into the kitchen - where you belong - and make me a sandwich

Michelle Obama calls on social media companies to permanently ban Trump.

[news.yahoo.com]

w0tn0t Level 8 Jan 9, 2021
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And predictably the left are whining because they don't get to censor it (it's amazing how xenophobic they are to foreign ideology 🤔).
Because free speech and freedom of thought are things that authoritarians have always feared, and now the lefties won't have big tech protecting them from a difference of opinion.

Tom81 Level 8 Dec 22, 2020

And predictable the right are whining because they think they are entitled to a platform. It's always "don't tell corporations what to do" when it is something benefiting Conservatives, like throwing unlimited money into political campaigns and side-stepping medical regulations, but when a private company doesn't want someone spreading lies on their platform, suddenly it is "we need government intrusion".

The #irrelevant motormouth democrat flog Michelle Obummer (aka BigMike) demands Trump be censored/suspended everywhere.
Who does BigMike think he is?

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Sounds like government intrusion into free market capitalism, imposing restrictions on how corporations can run their businesses, and telling companies how they must run their operations.

Maybe these companies should use the "deeply held religious beliefs" excuse like how some got out of birth control coverage.

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@ElAtilla please, do enlighten me.

@ElAtilla it's legal to call the virus a hoax, claim the earth is flat, call Sandy Hook a "false flag" operation, and wish for the extermination of all Jewish people. That doesn't mean companies should be forced to grant people platforms for this nonsense.

@ElAtilla I believe in freedom... including the freedom for a private corporation to choose what it's terms of service are, and not be forced to give any random keyboard warrior a bullhorn to reach millions.

@ElAtilla I haven't decided anything. It is up to the private companies to set their own TOS.

For example, it is perfectly legal to take implied nude or sexually suggestive photos - you can see these in magazine ads and billboards all the time. However, Instagram has policies which remove any posts they deem as even remotely racy. In New York, and several other states, it is actually perfectly legal for women to walk around topless anywhere a man can be topless - but Instagram and Facebook will remove any posts and possibly ban anybody posting topless pictures. Should we make as big of a stink about this, or do we accept that it is the right of the platform to determine what they will allow?

People need to once again understand that Freedom Of Speech only applies to the government taking action against you - it doesn't mean you are free from personal consequence (such as being fired from your job because you created a PR disaster with your speech) and it does not guarantee you an audience.

I've said it before, but I comment on Townhall sometimes, and I have had my comments removed because of the Liberal views I espouse. Should I sue Townhall for moderating their comments with a bias?

@JacksonNought
"People need to once again understand that Freedom Of Speech only applies to the government taking action against you - it doesn't mean you are free from personal consequence (such as being fired from your job because you created a PR disaster with your speech) and it does not guarantee you an audience."

The exclusive application to government (exclusively congress, to be precise) is according to USA's constitutional amendment - Poland is not bound by it.

And nobody is asking for an audience. We just want people who want to give audience to be able to!

The simple fact is that once you get to a point where a large section of the population is excluded from mainstream political discourse because your virtual Ministry of Truth said so, you make hot civil war virtually inevitable. I fear USA may be fast approaching that point. Then again, it seems to me that this is precisely the goal of leftist groups like Antifa and the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

What these social networks are doing may be legal, but does anybody really want to deal with the consequences?

@DaveO276 these are American companies. Maybe you should find Polish-specific social media if you don't like how they operate.

@JacksonNought Indeed, these are American companies. The article is about new legislation they will need to comply with in order to operate in Poland. Think of it as Poland's TOS for social media companies.

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Well there goes the concept of "you are entitled to freedom of speech but you are not entitled to a platform". In Poland at least.

Crikey Level 7 Dec 21, 2020
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Sounds like a decent deterrent for some bullshit censorship.

Yeah, no wonder commies in the comment section are complaining. Besides Poland is at odds with the EU and the technocrats so this is another clear example how they are not ready to betray their own people like the rest of the countries dancing the globalists tune. No wonder they are smeared by lefties who project on everyone what they are.

Joe Biden Blasts Conservative Govts of NATO Allies Poland and Hungary as ‘Totalitarian Regimes’

Joe Biden appeared to suggest the elected, conservative governments of NATO allies Hungary and Poland are “totalitarian regimes” like Belarus. Belarus by the way also was not on the "Build Back Better" plan, and they said EU blackmailed them that they won't get loans unless they apply lockdowns and kill their economy.

[breitbart.com]

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