On Wednesday, the Polish Ministry of Justice published a draft amendment to the penal code regarding hate speech on the website of the Government Legislation Center.
In a strong stand against government plans to penalize what it calls "hate speech," Poland's Confederation party asserts the need for free and unrestricted public discourse
“The introduction of the proposed solutions will ensure enhanced and full criminal law protection against the use of violence or unlawful threats, incitement to hatred, insults and violations of bodily integrity due to the disability, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity of the injured party,” reads the draft.
The draft also threatens up to five years in prison for “threats.”
However, even for “insults,” which are loosely defined, penalties could be extremely harsh under the new draft law.
Provisions regarding gender, sexual orientation and gender identity have been added to article 256, which covers incitement to hated and in article 257 regarding insults.
Now, under these new rules, “insults” against sexual orientation or gender identity will be punishable by up to three years in prison.
Opposition parties in Poland were already warning against proposals to change hate speech laws in January of this year when the new government first came to power. They argued that such changes would effectively end free speech in Poland and represent a grave threat to religious freedom, with Catholicism in particular critical of many…
Read morePolice statism is sweeping the Western World. This just happened in Canada and Scotland. The feds are coming for us next.
@9L8ZSPW4wks4W
It is good to help those who suffer in hate speech but it would mostly depend on how far the hate speech goes
@9L8ZFS84wks4W
Hate speech is not beneficial to those who may be definitely affected. It only harms, and beliefs are not supposed to be founded on harming others.
Europe is collapsing under the weight of their own tyrannical ideology.
They call this progress, but it is draconian. This is really no different than religious laws enforced in Middle Eastern countries, except these laws are introduced in the name of godlessness and overhanded pressure of the state to modify individual thought to its will.
The UN Plan 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Step one: Limit debate.
@Fr33SpeechMartyUnity4wks4W
Insanity. We should treat each other with respect but who decides what is/is not an insult?
Many are insulted by truth...so the truth become taboo?
Where does it end?
It’s hard for me to believe the polish people want restrictions on their speech after so recently throwing off the yoke of communism
It wasn't communism they threw off (communism is a form of anarchism) but socialism. And it never truly ended. Socialism, in classic liberal philosopher Friedrich Bastiat's definition, is the belief in a government that goes beyond the basic functions of protecting life, liberty, and property. Socialism believes in the State as the solution to problems, whereas true libertarianism and traditional conservatism (not to be confused with the policies of the neocon Republican Party) believe in liberty as the solution to problems.
Of course, seems to be a growing trend. “Freedom is never more than one generation way from extinction.”
@ExcludedLobbyistForward4wks4W
Not Poland, but the Polish radical left holding positions in the government. For now, it is a project that has not been voted on in parliament.
How quickly did they become just another EU stooge? One election.
@SteadfastTunaRepublican4wks4W
The EU withheld billions of euros from Poland until their preferred people got into power. Defacto coercion and election interference.
@CockyD3legateVeteran4wks4W
the PiS made a lot of errors, plus Donald Tusk is a strongman of the globalists, he got all the support and propaganda from globalists
@ISIDEWITH4wks4W
Is it fair for the government to decide what constitutes as 'hate speech' and what does that say about individual freedom of expression?
@9L93TCRLibertarian4wks4W
No because vocabulary among the people can change and the government might not catch hold of what something does and doesn't mean especially with context clues/issues.
@9L93SKQ4wks4W
Yes as hate speech is not a good form of expression
@9L8ZSTM4wks4W
it is not fair, they should be able to say whatever they want, its not like they threatened to kill them. They chose to be gay, face the hate.
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