Daily Wire:
In Poland, an initiative announced in late December could see social media companies fined roughly two million dollars if they remove content or block an account if the content does not break Polish law.
“In the event of removal or blockage, a complaint can be sent to the platform, which will have 24 hours to consider it. Within 48 hours of the decision, the user will be able to file a petition to the court for the return of access. The court will consider complaints within seven days of receipt,” Poland In reported.
Zbigniew Ziobro, the Polish Justice Minister, stated:
Often, the victims of tendencies for ideological censorship are also representatives of various groups operating in Poland, whose content is removed or blocked, 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 left has never welcomed free exchange of ideas. From a simple conversation with one of the assholes, wherein they have to control the terms under which the subject can be discussed all the way up.
Unfortunately when others concede “foregone conclusions” that they alone have been the arbiter of or concede goodwill and good faith to them it just breeds more of it. When you refuse to concede good will to them and make them defend every thing they claim to be a foregone conclusion, settled science, they go completely off the rails.
…they’ve been where we’re going.
…they’ve learned, but we haven’t.
…but we will…
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
Harry S. Truman
Suppression of free exchange of ideas inculcates resentment and is a root cause of violent reaction by those w/o a voice.
There’s a foreign country I would visit.
I’ve admired the Poles for a long time. They learned the hard way, and didn’t forget.
The poles are damned certain they Do Not want another iron curtain.
Great people. Respect.
We’re sorry, in order to be “hooked up” to the new global system that’s coming, you’ll first have to be:
(1) Defunded
(2) Debanked
(3) Disarmed
(4) Devirused
(5) Disenfranchised
(6) Disempowered
…because ‘we’ can’t trust you.
when Totalitarians start purges it always hurts them. Once they have banned the obvious opposition, they have gotten used to the power. They start looking around in their own ranks for any that may lack total purity. Then the test for purity keeps changing so no one can feel safe. In a nation this is deadly. In a social media niche where you can easily leave, not so much. Just leave.
I dropped Twitter last week and today I put on Facebook that I am leaving in one week.
Might have to look into Poland. Any nice beaches there?
I tend to stay away from politics on FB. While I do follow some groups of interests (old cars, abandoned highways, radio stations I worked at, etc.), the main reason I stay is for pictures of the grandchildren.
Then sites doing business in Poland will simply remove the comments section — which is not really convenient if your name is Facebook or Twitter. Or else they’ll simply vet comments prior to allowing them to be posted, or make sure they only come from approved users or are as sanitized (read: boring and uninformative) as they can possibly be. Will be interesting to see how this turns out…
Sweet! The President of Poland is a close friend of our President. They have taken the lead in the fight against political censorship.