Following the ban of Donald Trump on Twitter, the Polish government has announced that it will be making censorship by big tech companies illegal.
“Algorithms or the owners of corporate giants should not decide which views are right and which are not. Censorship of free speech, which is the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now returning in the form of a new, commercial mechanism to combat those who think differently.”
Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki
Donald Trump is not the only person experiencing censorship by big tech companies like Twitter and Facebook. Doctors who have spoken out against the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 protocol, journalists and whistleblowers such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, and media organizations who go against the mainstream, are all among groups experiencing censorship. Censorship isn’t a partisan issue. Both those on the left and right who speak out against the mainstream are experiencing censorship.