2962 Poland's Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill. Social network platforms will be fined millions of euros for each post they remove that doesn't break Polish law (polandin.com) posted 116 days ago by Johnkimble111 116 days ago by Johnkimble111 +2962 / -0 120 comments share 120 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (120) sorted by: top new old worst You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread. ▲ 3 ▼ – streakybacon 3 points 116 days ago +3 / -0 Then the question to ask is "what speech is against the law?" And the answer is: Just about everything. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Poland This is what you call a political face saving job, not freedom of speech. permalink save report block reply ▲ 2 ▼ – Johnkimble111 [S] 2 points 116 days ago +2 / -0 So the US has better free speech laws and Poland potentially has better laws for social media. One can still assume this is stage one for Poland and the next step can be to sort out those "hate speech" laws. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 1 ▼ – streakybacon 1 point 116 days ago +2 / -1 I highly doubt they will update their "hate speech" laws. This is simply justifying enforcing the ones they already have and making sure people don't try to enforce ones that don't exist. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 1 ▼ – Johnkimble111 [S] 1 point 116 days ago +1 / -0 Why not? They've been making decent changes elsewhere. permalink parent save report block reply
Then the question to ask is "what speech is against the law?"
And the answer is: Just about everything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Poland
This is what you call a political face saving job, not freedom of speech.
So the US has better free speech laws and Poland potentially has better laws for social media.
One can still assume this is stage one for Poland and the next step can be to sort out those "hate speech" laws.
I highly doubt they will update their "hate speech" laws. This is simply justifying enforcing the ones they already have and making sure people don't try to enforce ones that don't exist.
Why not? They've been making decent changes elsewhere.