Insulting the president is illegal in Poland

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23 Mar 2021, 11:20 am

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/polish-writer-could-be-jailed-for-describing-president-as-moron-on-social-media/ar-BB1eSLYX?ocid=uxbndlbing

Abortion, insulting the right-wing president...what do they *not* want to be illegal in Poland (Europe’s Alabama)?

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23 Mar 2021, 9:02 pm

Poland seems to be going back to the days of Do Not Insult Glorious Head Of Ruling Party Or Else.

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23 Mar 2021, 9:26 pm

The UK is going the same way...

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

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23 Mar 2021, 10:10 pm

I'm certain Trump would have loved having that law in America.

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24 Mar 2021, 12:34 am

Redd_Kross wrote:

The UK is going the same way...

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

"Let's increase legal penalties for protesting! That'll definitely address the root of the problem, and not add to the protest-crackdown feedback loop!"
Do they want to make their citizens hate the police? It's like they're trying to act more like the US. I can't imagine that going over well.

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24 Mar 2021, 12:41 am

Insult = anything short of worshipping the leader like a god/supreme being.

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24 Mar 2021, 1:19 am

This is what Poland and many other countries need right now:

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24 Mar 2021, 2:29 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

I'm certain Trump would have loved having that law in America.

Kentucky passed a bill making it a crime to insult law enforcement.

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24 Mar 2021, 3:06 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

I'm certain Trump would have loved having that law in America.

I loved how he would take it so personally when a journalist asked him a probing question :lol:

Yeah he'd approve a bill like that without question.

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24 Mar 2021, 3:45 am

Even the right wing want censorship.

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24 Mar 2021, 4:02 am

League_Girl wrote:

Even the right wing want censorship.

Of course. The Left want to censor the Right, the Right want to censor the Left and the Center want to censor the extremes. You can see it as a simple power struggle over defining what's appropriate and what's not.

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24 Mar 2021, 4:45 am

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Of course. The Left want to censor the Right.

The left outside of the old soviet union or China aren't old school Maoists, Leninists or Stalinists.

I can't think of one single thing a leftist would want to censor that isn't vilification

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24 Mar 2021, 2:09 pm

cyberdad wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I'm certain Trump would have loved having that law in America.

I loved how he would take it so personally when a journalist asked him a probing question :lol:

Yeah he'd approve a bill like that without question.

One wouldn't expect anything different from a thin skinned, narcissistic, would-be-autocrat.

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24 Mar 2021, 2:12 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I'm certain Trump would have loved having that law in America.

Kentucky passed a bill making it a crime to insult law enforcement.

I've heard that. It would seem like something that could be abused in order to arrest and hold someone when there isn't legitimate evidence of a crime.

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24 Mar 2021, 2:20 pm

Well, the charge triggered Streissand effect :lol: ("debil"="moron")

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24 Mar 2021, 2:28 pm

President Duda is the head of a political party that is somewhat "rightist" in some aspects----but somewhat "leftist" in others.

For example, Duda is for banning gay marriage through a law; and he wants to ban gay people from adopting children. But he's also into state intervention into the economy.

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