WARSAW, Poland, December 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Poland’s justice minister has announced the creation of a new bill that would protect freedom of speech from social media censorship.
Zbigniew Ziobro said on Thursday that the proposed new measure would permit social media users to file a complaint against social media companies if their comments do not violate Polish laws but are nevertheless erased by a company’s moderators or if the social media company blocks them.
According to Polish online magazine “Poland In”, the justice minister wants to reassure Poles that their free speech rights will be protected.
“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,” Ziobro said.
According to Polish online media portal ONET, the justice minister said there were “many examples” which “show the absurdity of decisions of different private authorities, international corporations, who censor comments either of politicians or of private users.”
Ziobro acknowledged that it was not an “easy subject”, and that the internet should also
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