Both the act of vetoing the digital bill and its argumentative housing, presented publically by president Karol Nawrocki, is Poland's strong stand against Europe and on the side of America – writes Jan ROKITA.
The veto to the government fresh of the Digital Act is undoubtedly 1 of the key acts of Karol Nawrocki's presidency. First due to the fact that it concerns matter, which is present the central point of the world's western dispute over the scope of individual freedoms. A dispute in which the right – rather differently than in the past – took on the function of a spokesperson for the classical liberal concept of freedom of speech, derived from the philosophical tradition of Anglo-Saxon liberalism. On the another hand, the left and alleged "liberals" in the name of political correctness search to narrow the framework of freedom of speech, which makes us aware of the scale of the ruin of language and conceptual confusion in our cultural circle.
But there is besides another reason, strictly political, the importance of Nawrock's digital veto. It occurs at the minute erstwhile a systemic-philosophy dispute over the limits of freedom of speech took on a applicable dimension of the intensifying political conflict between the US and Europe, in which, as we know, sanctions have already been struck on both sides of the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, both the act of vetoing the digital bill and its argumentative housing, presented publically by the President, means Poland's strong stand against Europe and on the side of America. As it seems, the Tusk government, which has taken a stand for Europe, does not have tools to break Nawrocki's veto, and if so, in practice it will mean that the Polish state will be in this serious conflict on the part of the United States. This crucial fact will be noticed by all government offices on this and that side of the Atlantic.
When it comes to the motto of the government novel, passed by the Sejm on December 18, 2025, it is hard not to get the impression that in the Polish legal strategy it was expected to be any amazing freak.
The theoretical intent of the novels was to introduce the EU DSA Directive (on digital services) from 2022 into the Polish legal circulation. How extended the non-traditional powers of the Directive have given the European Commission and its ancillary body – the European Digital Services Council. But as usual with Polish government implementing EU directives, overzealous officials of the Tusk administration and parliamentarians of the government coalition created a circumstantial Polish "legal monster".
From the full strategy of Polish criminal law, they chose arbitrarily 27 different crimes, described not only in the penal code, which would become sui generis "privileged crimes". For if individual were only accused by the police, the taxation office, or any another government police service of committing 1 of these crimes on the network, this would consequence in not only the anticipation of criminal proceedings (which is normal), but besides the anticipation of blocking access to the network. This is by decision of 1 of the 2 officials mentioned in the Act: president of KRRiTV or president of the Office of Electronic Communications.
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