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Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by Feniks on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:26PM (#15911226)
Allowing Poland into the EU was a mistake. It takes decades for a country to build up its democratic political culture. Something like this wouldn't even be conceivable in Denmark or the Netherlands.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lossolo on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:05PM (#15911425)
This has more publicity today because this TV station was taken over by US based company last year. Department of justice made a statement because US based company was fined. If this TV station would be owned by last owner today then things for sure would be different..

Do not judge Poland, if you want to judge someone then judge polish government. This government is a result of populism wave that also elected Trump in US, made Nazi party entering Bundestag in Germany, made UK leave EU etc.

Before Law and Justice party took over, Poland was ruled by pro democratic, very pro EU and liberal-centric party. Poland (polish people) is the most pro EU country in whole Europe (source: eurostat) and was for last x years every year.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by expertentipp on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:50AM (#15913208)
TVN is American-owned station producing American-style "news". The main reason probably why this incident is getting international attention.

> result of populism wave that also elected Trump in US, made Nazi party entering Bundestag in Germany

That escalated quickly.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lafar6502 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:05AM (#15913277)
So what exactly is wrong with 'american-style' news and why it deserves a government punishment? They were fined for reporting protests agains the ruling party, but you somehow try to imply it was because they did it in american style?
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by Feniks on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:03AM (#15914223)
"Independent media" is very new in Eastern Europe. You'd be amazed at the links politicians have with TV stations and newspapers.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by expertentipp on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:49AM (#15914957)
> You'd be amazed at the links politicians have with TV stations and newspapers.

As if it wasn't the case in any other country as well... US in particular...

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lightbyte on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:52AM (#15914987)
>Do not judge Poland, if you want to judge someone then judge polish government. This government is a result of populism wave

The government is elected by the people, it's perfectly reasonable to judge those people for the result of their actions.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by nkkollaw on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:03PM (#15915497)
Damn, you might be right but I'd rather die than have to be judged for Berlusconi :-/
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by ManlyBread on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:23AM (#15913552)
Weird, everything was fine when we had a pro-EU government, now we can't even sneeze without making it to the international headlines.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lafar6502 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:13AM (#15914267)
Sneeze, don’t fart aloud
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by amiga-workbench on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:30AM (#15913371)
Oh please, Poland are the only EU country with a spine.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by nkkollaw on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:25AM (#15915217)
This is (unfortunately?) true, and whoever downvoted you doesn't know Poland well.

I'm Italian but live in Poland, and it makes me cringe seeing the difference between a country that has no balls and does whatever Germany-controlled EU asks it to-- despite the huge damages inflicted to its citizen--and a country that puts its citizens first like Poland does.

I go to Germany often and besides a few outskirts, Munich feels like some Arab country where you hardly hear any German spoken. Nuremberg could be renamed Little Istanbul and no one would complain. It's a mess. In the meantime, Italy is in even worse conditions because we can't seem to make people respect the law. If you go to any city you'll see dozens of African street vendors selling counterfeit Gucci and Valentino bags undisturbed, in front of actual stores that pay taxes and sell (or try to sell) the real thing. All this to lower the cost of labor (unless you believe the "helping people" lie that politicians tell you).

I'm glad Europe exists, but we need some balance between what's good for the community and what individual countries need.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lafar6502 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:11AM (#15914254)
No spine, greed and fear instead
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by amiga-workbench on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:14AM (#15914272)
Perfectly rational fears.

They're not pulling a Sweden and censoring politically incorrect truths.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by gyaru on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:16AM (#15914297)
Yeah, because that sure happened! (no)

You're free to link any examples.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by amiga-workbench on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:14AM (#15914701)
http://www.friatider.se/gigantisk-databas-ver-invandrares-br...

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/extremhogersajt-och-nazis...

This was fairly recent, as I understand it, SVT is the more "reputable" news source and they don't seem to be refuting any of the data. Shortly after the migrant crisis began, Swedish police stopped recording information about the ethnicity of perps.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by gyaru on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:57AM (#15920654)
Huh, what's the issue with those articles at all?

Sweden has laws how you have to handle personal information, a database like that would potentially breach that law.

It's basically like a smaller version of GDPR from the EU.

How is this governmental censoring?

You'd breach the same law if you made a database with people that like Nintendo games.

Jeez.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by nkkollaw on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:18AM (#15913083)
Why comment when you have no idea what you're talking about?
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by Feniks on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:09AM (#15914249)
Wow great argument. I hope Poland has a better one at the next EU council meeting.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by nkkollaw on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:30AM (#15915242)
Your post didn't deserve an argument, but ignoring for a second your ignorant comment about letting Poland in Europe, you're welcome to enlighten me as to how this: https://edri.org/new-danish-law-can-lead-substantial-interne... is not 100 times worse than what's in the article.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by megaman22 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:33AM (#15913384)
Stealing Poland from the Warsaw Pact into NATO was an unbelievable coup.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lafar6502 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:12AM (#15913295)
Allowing the country to EU kind of enabled populism to gain so much voters - thanks to all the EU money going through politician's hands they (socialists) grew in power, they're the masters of the economy in Poland now and half of business in PL depends directly or indirectly on money distributed by the state. Not mentioning 100% of public administration depends on it. So i assume this is a first step to a grand failure, full socialist style. And then we'll face angry mob - now they're angry because they want more socialism, but this is just because the stupid need to hit the wall with their own heads before they understand how messed up this is.
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by gyaru on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:25AM (#15914364)
I don't even get what you get all this from, surely you know socialists actually don't like the EU in general?

The EU giving money to "socialists" makes no sense.

Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by nkkollaw on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @07:30AM (#15913794)
So much imagination, and so many statements backed by absolutely nothing...
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by lafar6502 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:07AM (#15914246)
Ok visit Greece then
Re:Poland: Government agency fines private TV station for co... by nkkollaw on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:26AM (#15915220)
Ehm, so who's talking about Greece again..?