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> News, human rights and government sites saw a censorship spike in Poland after protests in July 2019

I'm not aware of any site blocking other than unregistered online gambling sites. If something like that would occur it would be a big news.

Polish politicians are not able to censor polish Internet without causing a big stir - the infrastructure is not controlled by state entities.

Only facebook/twitter are able to do so, because they are in complete control of their microcosm. Recently fb banned account of a polish politician with 780k followers. He is a bizzare person that sometimes likes to express edgy opinions or make political attention-grabbing mini happenings. Nevertheless a major politician was silenced by decision of some employee of polish division of american corporation.



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