Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill

Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 10:31 AM UTC

alacombe wrote: post #210

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #147

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I don't see how it's relevant. Would you be fine being a kulak in Soviet Russia being scheduled for execution because at least the Japanese are currently organizing mass murder in China as well?

> I don't see how it's relevant. Instead of looking at the neighbor's mess, clean up your own mess first. Fact is most of the former "free" (as in Liberty) world has been setting up the perfect legal building blocks for a long sitting reign of terror / dictatorship / authoritarianism, and big-tech is 100% complicit (because they will make money out of it).

Post by me_me_me » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #309

function_seven wrote: post #277

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That's exactly what makes it a great example. If we accept the premise that /r/jailbait was not illegal (but "merely" reprehensible), then under this new law, Reddit would have been breaking the law when they decided to ban the subreddit.

A great example maybe to demonstrate inability of current criminal code and judicial systems, but not a good example to convince someone that privatized censorship is akchally a good thing.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 12:14 PM UTC

Post by nec4b » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

b0rsuk wrote: post #349

olliej wrote: post #340

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it's getting downvoted because you said this in the most racist sounding way possible. "Various polish governments have done XYZ" vs. "polish people lie". It's similar to "Israel does XYZ to Palestinians" vs "Jews want XYZ to happen to Palestinians" (to use a common antisemitic trope trying to justify antisemitism)

Incidentally, Poles are one of the purest or most inbred nations in Europe, and you have no one else but Adolf Hitler to thank for it. You see echoes of that in Witcher 3, I know it caused some controversy overseas because of how uniformly white everyone is. No malicious intent there, just modern Poles projecting their world back in time. Between WW1 and WW2, percentage of people identifying as Poles was less than 70…

Post by athms » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 3:07 PM UTC

_oqcu wrote: post #246

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #48

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Put another way: In the US at least, r/jailbait didn't actually break any laws (well, maybe some individual posts did, but the whole idea of that subreddit was essentially to ogle underage women/children but in a way that was not explicitly illegal). So with something like this law all social media sites would be forced to host the equivalent of r/jailbait.

I don't see that as a good counter example. That sort of content should be illegal anyway.