Commentary Who knew years ago that the United States would be lagging far behind countries like Poland and Hungary in free speech? They evidently learned something from years under the iron fist of the Soviet Union. The Poles are proposing new laws that would impose fines of $13.5 million on Big Tech social media companies that censor users or remove posts for ideological reasons. Their Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki put it this way, ironically in a post on Facebook: “We are now increasingly faced with practices we believed were left in the past. The censoring of free speech, once the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now back, but in a new form, run by corporations, who silence those who think differently.” He sounds more like Jefferson or Madison than our namby-pamby politicians who thus far—in the midst of the Goebbels-like “cancel culture”— wish to do little more than …
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