{"id":47991,"date":"2021-01-16T09:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T13:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47991"},"modified":"2021-01-16T09:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T13:14:19","slug":"its-about-time-these-cowardly-countries-grew-come-cojones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47991","title":{"rendered":"It’s about time these cowardly countries grew some cojones!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poland Set To Make Censoring Social Media Accounts Illegal\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

On Jan. 6, pro-Trump extremists\u00a0stormed<\/a>\u00a0the US Capitol complex and disrupted Congress’s joint session to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Days later, social media companies went on a free speech crusade against President Trump,\u00a0banning<\/a>\u00a0or limiting the president from various platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat.<\/p>\n

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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, according to\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Algorithms or the owners of corporate giants should not decide which views are right and which are not,”\u00a0<\/strong>wrote the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.<\/em><\/p>\n

“There is no and can be no consent to censorship.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Morawiecki’s comments were published on Facebook days after Twitter and Facebook suspended the US president, citing a “risk of further incitement of violence” in the wake of his supporters storming the US Capitol building in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Speaking vaguely and without mentioning Trump, Morawiecki said:<\/p>\n

“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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“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.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We will suggest that similar regulations are also put in place in all of the European Union,”\u00a0<\/strong>he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Morawiecki’s comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Trump’s ban from Twitter is “problematic.”<\/p>\n

The fallout from last week’s deadly raid on the Capitol has included the\u00a0purging of Parler<\/a>, 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 in the Capitol attack.<\/p>\n

Banning Trump from Twitter and other social media platforms has\u00a0set dangerous precedence<\/strong>\u00a0where big tech companies can, at their convenience, censor anyone they want, even the president of the US.<\/p>\n

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