Poland set to make censoring social media accounts illegal!
WARSAW, Poland (PNN) - January 16, 2021 - On January 6, anti-Trump extremists stormed the Fascist Police States of Amerika Capitol complex and disrupted Congress's joint session. Days later, social media companies went on a free speech crusade against President Donald Trump, banning or limiting the president from various platforms, including Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
It appears some Polish government officials have denounced Big Tech's censorship of Trump. They are preparing to draft a law that will make it illegal for tech firms to ban accounts.
"Algorithms or the owners of corporate giants should not decide which views are right and which are not," wrote the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. "There is no and can be no consent to censorship."
Morawiecki's comments were published on Facebook days after Twitter and Facebook suspended the FPSA president, citing a "risk of further incitement of violence," falsely claiming that his supporters stormed the FPSA Capitol building in Washington, DC.
Speaking vaguely and without mentioning Trump, Morawiecki said, "Censorship of free speech, which is the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now returning in the form of a new, commercial mechanism to combat those who think differently," he said.
"The owners of social platforms cannot act above the law," Morawiecki added, noting that in Poland, the functioning of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are regulated by law.
"We will suggest that similar regulations are also put in place in all of the European Union," he said.
Morawiecki's comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Trump's ban from Twitter is "problematic".
The fallout from last week's raid on the Capitol has included the purging of Parler, which is a social media app mainly used by conservatives. Apple and Google both banned Parler from their respective app stores over concerns the app aided Trump supporters.
Banning Trump from Twitter and other social media platforms has set dangerous precedents where Big Tech companies can, at their convenience, censor anyone they want, even the president of the FPSA.