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Except for things that are illegal under Polish law I think. Which basically means their government can define was gets taken down or not.

Seems like a set of perverse incentives

@Gargron I think the answer is not to give twitter some rules but to break their monopoly. Mastodon and other federated social networks are the answer.

@Gargron Time for literally all of social media to block Poland.

@Gargron Polish gov is generally very supportive towards US GOP, and especially the diehard wing of it. I don't think it's anything more than a nice gesture to talk about in the Polish and US conservative media, although it's possible that it's going to be a way to secure social media fake news operations from Poland for the US market.

@Gargron fits that the ruling party is called PiS imo

@Gargron What are your thoughts on this Eugen?

@Gargron do they realise the companies that run these platforms are already doing this implicitly... will they regulate the algorithms ?

@Gargron finally I'll be able to troll my internet Polish buddies with mom and sister jokes 😂

@Gargron Let's imagine that Twitter and Facebook were China platforms and USA politicians had an account on them and discussed internal politics and if they sad something which was not in line of those companies and China Communist Party then they could be banned. How would USA politicians would behave then?

@Gargron Great idea. Leader of democracy.

@Gargron There is a difference between a Twitter lambda account and a politician account. Politicians were elected and should be submitted to local court rulings before banning them.

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God, this entire thread is a disaster. The article clearly states that even though it might be politically motivated, the proposal is perfectly in line with what the EU is planning to do.

@Gargron Color me incredibly unsurprised. :/

@Gargron Actually this is true. Polish goverment is serius about it because majority of polish press is in the political opposition's hands. So basically many people are banned in these sites if their view doesn't match that of the opposition.

@Gargron I'm not sure if I should like or dislike that.On the one hand censoring sucks and should be forbidden,on the other hand these are private companies and if they destroy themselves by doing stupid shit,they make place for other people to do it better.

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@Gargron The current government has various ideas that it loudly announces - worse with details, good legal preparation and implementation. I would consider it more like a celebrity and gossip headline. ;-)

@Gargron As it should be!!

@Gargron poland is awesome

@Gargron 😬 it is a bad idea but they could do it correctly if they implemented rules that didn't break the nation's laws (and allow the networks to ban for that) and only apply them to social networks larger than a certain portion of the population. Then, no large company would be able to unfairly censor people (within an extent).

@Gargron So.
Social media services would _have to_ delete illegal content, b/c of course.
But _have to_ keep all legal content.

That's already a "not worth it" level of effort to moderate, but then there's a little thing called "other countries" and the fact different countries have different laws.

So every country would get it's own "filtered" version and each service has to have at least one server in each country to be able to host content illegal elsewhere, or what?

@Gargron contrary to popular belief, this is the way to go.