On the night of last Thursday for Friday, our website nczas.com, 1 of the oldest websites on the Polish Internet, has been operating on the Polish net for a 4th of a century. Our admin rapidly determined that both the server and the domain function normally, and you can enter the site without problem from all countries but Poland. At this point, it became clear that we were the victim of the censory urges of the Law and Justice Government. erstwhile I compose these words, although I do not yet have authoritative confirmation from net providers that it is the actions of 1 of the peculiar services, however, the consultation of the owners of the websites that have previously affected akin actions leaves no uncertainty that we have been the victim of specified a thing.
As far as possible, the services in the State where Article 54 of the Constitution states that: “Every individual is granted the freedom to express his views and to get and disseminate information. The preventive censura of the social media and the licensing of the press are prohibited. The Act may introduce an work to get prior concession to operate a radio or tv station’?
It is possible through Article 180 of the Telecommunications Law under which ‘Telecom Operator is required to block telecommunications connections or communications without delay, at the request of authorised entities, if specified links are likely to jeopardise the defence, safety of the State and safety and public policy, or to let specified blocking to be made by those entities’.
This provision stands in apparent contradiction with the Constitution and for many years was dead. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, however, Polish services have censored the net on the basis of it. This provision allows, among another things, the Head of Homeland safety to request the blocking of content if it threatens, for example, public order. No one's checking these demands. Their scale is besides unknown.
In the case of nczas.com, this is not only an impact on freedom of speech, but besides an impact on political competition and economical freedom. De facto, it means a ban on economical activity involving the transmission of messages to 2 million people who enter our website all month. Harmful actions towards the nczas.com portal have been observed for many years. We were blocked from spreading, and we were blocked from advertising and analytical systems. Nevertheless, the portal worked and attracted a 2 millionth audience. due to the fact that he informed about facts which in another media were not present and commented on reality from a conservative-liberal point of view, but above all Polish point of view. He was a salt in the eye of propaganda and PiS politicians, who, as you can see, would not back distant from breaking the most simple principles to save their power.
We'll do whatever we can to keep the time.com going on and bring the people liable to justice. 33 years ago, the weekly “Highest TIME!” began an era of free speech in Poland. Let's not let the PiS assassins finish it.
We are starting a fundraiser to defend against this lawlessness and to defend the jobs of people creating the nczas.com portal. I besides invitation all those who can and want to aid us with payments and transfer 1.5% of the PIT to the ultimate Time Foundation, which helps to keep our portals.
Freedom of speech in Poland has never been so threatened. Let's do everything we can to defend her and punish those who attacked her.
Mr Sommer
MP editorial comment
"Think Poland" is unlawfully combated and censored by the PiS-owski regime. Our website [myślpolska.info] has been blocked illegally for almost a year.
Today, the same methods were applied to the right-wing website of the ultimate Time! [time.com] We must defend this side regardless of political views! You gotta protest the insolent clerical censorship!
We must stand for normality, freedom of speech and freedom of view, besides erstwhile we do not like them. "Democracy differently" has been known for many years, and we know who and what we must not publically criticize. That's how we know where the enemy is. And in the future all exceptions and privileges must be abolished for those whom the Adversary considered to be chosen and exceptional.
Łukasz M. Jastrzębski
