Polish President Nawrocki vetoes digital content bill for second time
- Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed legislation on Friday that would have let regulators block illegal online content, his second rejection of a bill implementing the European Union's Digital Services Act.
- Since taking office, Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European coalition have clashed repeatedly, with the president vetoing 48 government bills despite pressure to address school violence.
- Following knife attacks at Polish schools in October, including one by a 15-year-old, Nawrocki argued the bill granted officials "arbitrary control" over online speech rather than protecting children.
- Tusk argued the legislation should have united political divides to "protect children from online criminals," while Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski called the veto "permission for hate, hatred and the death that the internet also brings."
- Gawkowski announced plans to draft a new bill, as the current veto leaves Poland without tools to respond quickly to online threats and criminal content.
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Poland's President, Karol Nawrocki, rejected on Friday, by veto, a draft law allowing regulators to decide whether certain online posts are illegal. It is the second time that the President opposes a law by which Poland implements the European Digital Services Act (DSA), according to Reuters. Nawrocki said ...
Polish President Karol Nawrocki exercised his veto on Friday on a draft law that would have allowed regulators to decide whether an online content is illegal and to have it blocked, which is the second time that the head of state rejects a draft law transposing the Digital Services Act of the European Union, Reuters reports.
POLISH President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a law regulating the internet for the second time, claiming it threatens freedom of speech. The government has sharply criticized the decision, citing security reasons.
On Friday, the president vetoed a bill blocking illegal content online. "It's not the role of an official to pass judgment on whether a given piece of content was a crime or not," Karol Nawrocki explained. A day earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski appealed to the head of state to sign the bill in order to effectively combat disinformation.
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