Posted on 01/14/2021 6:48:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WARSAW, Poland, January 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The prime minister of Poland has delivered a blistering denunciation of Big Tech censorship, following the recent ban of President Donald Trump and others by virtually all social media giants.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mateusz Morawiecki, 52, published a post defending internet freedom in both Polish and English on Facebook. He said that Poles are “so attached to freedom because we know what it is like when someone tries to limit it.”
“For close to 50 years we lived in a country in which censorship was practiced, in which Big Brother told us how we are meant to live and what we are meant to feel, and what we are not allowed to think, say or write. That is why we are so concerned with any attempt to limit freedom,” Morawiecki explained.
The Prime Minister called the internet the “most democratic medium in history” and “a form on which everyone can have a voice.” He has noticed, however, that the unlimited freedom internet users have enjoy has eroded, and is not afraid to call out Big Tech for their abuse of power.
“[W]ith time, [the internet] became dominated by huge, international corporations, wealthier and more powerful than many nations,” Morawiecki wrote.
“These corporations treat our online activity merely as a source of revenue and a tool to increase their global domination. They have also introduced their own standards of political correctness, and they fight those who oppose them.”
The prime minister likened Big Tech’s censorship to the practices of “totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.”
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The Poles have seen this movie before.
PING!
Facebook, Twitter stocks are not dropping because Americans are leaving them, which is a factor
I think rather that their management, their deep-state masters, and investors didn’t realize that the world would go against them so quickly.
Control of social media is a national security issue, and many countries are tired of the USA’s deep-state schemes and its tech oligarchs.
Now they have a pretext to act. I think we are going to see punishment of them in many countries.
Dangerous to freedom everywhere
Fine with me. Commies don’t seem to get the old adage, “Sew the wind, reap the whirlwind.” Hopefully, this will be a big whirlwind.
Europe is going to stab Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe in the back and allow the Russians to storm in without any opposition.
He’s right. The experience of living under socialist dictatorship has inoculated Eastern Europe against political correctness unlike the West.
The former Eastern bloc countries are freer than than the west of us.
I’d rather live under Putin than under Biden.
It’s not Biden you’re living under, it’s the Deep State, Biden is but a puppet.
How can you say that about the most popularly elected candidate in US history!? He had 80 million votes. And it would have been 800 million votes if that’s what it took.
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