Claude Chollet, who is the founder and managing editor of the Observatoire du Journalisme, explains to Remix News that a new regime of preventive censorship, unique in its kind within the EU, marks a new stage in the authoritarian drift of the liberal left in France in the face of popular discontent and dissent over key issues like immigration and freedom of speech
Facebook turns its censorship efforts towards Poland
Where is Elon Musk? An Austrian politician who pointed out foreigners were responsible for three rapes in less than a week was hit with a Twitter suspension
The incident proves that conservative and right-wing media outlets are being targeted, according to PCh24’s chief editor
TikTok suspends Remix News for the third time in three months, this time for over a week
Poland’s Confederation party has experienced incredible censorship, with Facebook having already banned the party’s page with 700,000 followers
On top of the Twitter ban last year, Remix News is now threatened with “restrictions” on TikTok
“According to the Hamburg Higher Regional Court, Facebook is a deliberate, serial breacher of the law,” said free speech lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel after his court victory
Pavel Durov says he will do everything to protect all users’ data
The Ministry of Justice is finalizing a draft bill meant to protect freedom of speech online, and one of its key points is the establishment of a Freedom of Speech Council
The right-wing Confederation’s representatives warned that the ban was an attempt to interfere with democracy in Poland
The tech giant claimed the charity’s campaign violated its guidelines
It was only a matter of time before tried-and-true practices in the liberal Left American media found their way to Poland, writes Michał Karnowski for portal wPolityce.pl
Blocking two users for comments on Facebook about the 2018 migration wave was illegal and violated freedom of speech
Social media and federal government make for strange, suppressing bedfellows
Biden entry reads like “defense council brief”
Russia’s Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare blocked the Russian website of Czech Radio because of an article about Czech martyr Jan Palach from 2001
Professor of law and deputy of the Vox party Francisco José Contreras has been censored for 12 hours by Twitter for affirming a biological fact
The church service reportedly violated copyright despite having all the rights to the music featured in the video
“We have had enough censorship in former socialist Yugoslavia, and we don’t want to repeat history,” wrote PM Janša
Éric Zemmour, a critic of French President Emmanuel Macron, is being attacked by the Macron-backed Journalistic Ethics Council
The suspension of the Twitter account of Spanish conservative party Vox shows that the Left does not want to debate on equal terms, writes Małgorzata Wołczyk for Polish portal dorzeczy.pl
Politicians, including Polish ones, have been outplayed by tech lobbyists, believes media expert and head of the New Media Institute Eryk Mistewicz
Is this the new Hungarian Facebook? Hundub debuts to counter censorship and provide an open forum for free speech
If passed, the new law will allow Poles to appeal to court in the case of unjust bans and censorship related to the removal of posts on social media
The left in France has openly used laws in the country to censor conservatives in the press and threaten journalists with fines and jail time, writes Oliver Bault
Social network deleted a post regarding the US border wall last week
Videos from Project Veritas are revealing the extent of Big Tech censorship in the run-up to the Nov. 3 United States elections
In another case of censorship, Twitter banned a US Senate candidate for her criticizing mass migration in Europe despite data supporting her assertion
Biden met with an executive of a Ukrainian energy company despite denying ever doing so
Facebook has silenced a pro-Poland page with 70,000 followers which posted content on Polish history, politics and culture
Twitter ramps up censorship of conservative voices
Remix News has been suspended, which follows months after state media outlet Poland Daily was taken offline by Twitter
Leading liberal Polish newspaper removes article criticizing Bart Staszewski for putting up fake “LGBT-free zone” signs after backlash from the LGBT activist himself
There are fears that Facebook could implement mass censorship both before and after the US presidential election
“Restriction of freedom is distorting political competition “
The leader of Law and Justice (PiS) stressed that the court verdict bested communist censorship
The suspension of the Poland Daily account has been associated with the anti-right and anti-PiS article published by leftist portal Oko.press
Poles created a short film which showed the tragic history of young Poles during the fateful struggle for Warsaw
“We are witnessing rigid censorship,” warns Tomio Okamura
LGBT censorship is becoming increasingly more effective
Social network Parler attracts users as Trump promotes it
“We are dealing with an attack on freedom of speech in Poland”
