{"id":42708,"date":"2020-09-02T00:39:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=42708"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:01:31","slug":"facebook-censors-a-polish-page-for-a-post-criticizing-the-1939-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/09\/02\/facebook-censors-a-polish-page-for-a-post-criticizing-the-1939-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook censors a Polish page for a post criticizing the 1939 invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have already been many cases of censorship on Facebook against publications accused of advocating Nazism, even if it were not, but the last case is surreal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/02\/10\/koliber-in-this-way-life-family-tradition-and-free-market-are-defended-in-poland\/\">KoLiber: In This Way Life, Family, Tradition And Free Market Are Defended in Poland<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Facebook punishes KoLiber with a month without being able to publish<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Polish conservative-liberal association KoLiber - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/02\/10\/koliber-in-this-way-life-family-tradition-and-free-market-are-defended-in-poland\/\">among whose activities is to pay tribute to the heroes of the Polish resistance in World War II<\/a> - <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KoLiber_org\/status\/1300910753243897858\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has denounced this Tuesday<\/a> that Facebook has imposed them a punishment of not posting on their page for a month. The association <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KoLiber_org\/status\/1300910753243897858\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has published on their Twitter account<\/a> the screenshot of the notification made by Facebook, in which the following is indicated in Polish: <strong><em>\"You cannot publish or comment for 30 days. This is because you previously posted content that was not in line with our Community Standards.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50295087658_f7aaf6dc3d_o.jpg\" style=\"width:80%; height:auto; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big>The post included a historical photo of the German invasion ...<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The photo in question shows <strong>German soldiers and border guards from the Free City of Danzig<\/strong> breaking down the border barrier with Poland during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. <strong>This is a very famous photo <\/strong>that is often used to symbolize what happened that day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=3786664184722361&id=115270128528470\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The original publication was made by KoLiber Bia\u0142ystok<\/a>, and the KoLiber association limited to sharing it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stowarzyszeniekoliber\/posts\/10159084643265530\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their fan page<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/spAnN\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a copy can be seen here at archive.ph<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><big>... and a text that denounced the atrocities committed by the invaders<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It so happens that <strong>the post did not make an apology for Nazism, but quite the opposite: it was to remember the aggression suffered by Poland at the hands of Germany<\/strong> in 1939. <em>\"On September 1, 1939, the Germans invaded Poland without a prior declaration of war. The disproportion of force was quite clear,\"<\/em> the text says, which <strong>also denounces the atrocities committed by the invaders:<\/strong> <em>\"The first bombs fell on the All Saints Hospital, which was clearly marked with Red Cross signs. <strong>The executions of people became cruel every day, just because they were Polish.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to denouncing the anti-Polish myths spread by the invaders, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/08\/30\/the-myth-of-polish-cavalry-charges-against-tanks-in-september-1939\/\">the lie of cavalry charges against tanks<\/a>, the text ended as follows: <strong><em>\"Fortunately, Poland managed to rebuild itself and free itself from the totalitarian yoke.<\/strong> Furthermore, you cannot forget about those who fought against the Red and Brown Evil Empire. <strong>Let us remember the victims of these two criminal systems.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much of that post was a violation of Facebook's community rules? <strong>What bothers Facebook is the mere publication of a historical photo accompanied by a text that condemned the atrocities of the invaders and asked to remember their victims?<\/strong> Definitely, the censorship system of that social network is nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have already been many cases of censorship on Facebook against publications accused of advocating Nazism, even if it were not, but the last case is surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10395,10429],"tags":[747,10370,10325,10389],"class_list":["post-42708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-second","tag-facebook","tag-poland","tag-stowarzyszenie-koliber","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}