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Facebook and Twitter employees have plenty of power when it comes to banning accounts with speech they don't like. Why does the polish government intend on doi

• smokey_circles 6y ago
  Oh that's easy. The Polish government (like most authoritarian governments) wants sole control over who has censorship authority. [0][1][2] Also: You're conflating "speech they don't like" with "policy violating conduct" which IS legally enforceable in most countries, including Poland. As usual: Don't like it? Go somewhere else. Just not Parler, they couldn't host a piss up at a brewery. [0] https://apnews.com/article/poland-courts-warsaw-2dece52da1fa08b266fe0dc2164d6a19 https://apnews.com/article/poland-courts-warsaw-2dece52da1fa... [1] https://ipi.media/as-violence-escalates-in-poland-journalists-come-under-attack/ https://ipi.media/as-violence-escalates-in-poland-journalist... [2] https://ipi.media/alerts/polish-journalist-arrested-while-covering-anti-lockdown-demonstration/ https://ipi.media/alerts/polish-journalist-arrested-while-co...
• littlestymaar 6y ago
  First, [Redacted, since the parent comment has since been edited]. Second, Facebook and Twitter are banning hundreds of pages every month, extremists pages indeed, but sometimes also journalists or parody pages, most of these bans being done by bots, with a degree of false positive and with often little ways to react.