{"id":4351,"date":"2020-02-27T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anti-defamation.pl\/english\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:10:27","slug":"the-next-hearing-in-the-case-of-maciej-swirski-the-president-of-reduta-dobrego-imieni-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/the-next-hearing-in-the-case-of-maciej-swirski-the-president-of-reduta-dobrego-imieni-against-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The next hearing in the case of Maciej \u015awirski, the President of \u201cReduta Dobrego Imienia\u201d against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, at 11.00 in the District Court in Warsaw, another hearing was held in the trail against Facebook. The claimant is Maciej \u015awirski, President of \u201c Reduta Dobrego Imienia\u201d. The charge in this case is, censorship and discrimination based on nationality, political views and religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The portal was sued in a private action in 2016, following the November 11 Independence March. Before the National holiday, accounts and profiles of specific people and institutions disappeared from Facebook\u2019s platform, including those of the organizers of the march.<br \/>\nDuring the hearing, the President of \u201cRDI\u201d Maciej \u015awirski submitted an application to modify the charge. In response, Facebook representatives accused the President of Reduta that he did not have the so-called \u2018active right\u2019. However, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) confirms that in similar cases the \u2018active right\u2019 applies to everyone. In addition, they filed a request not to have the hearing recorded, but the Court did not agree.<\/p>\n<p>Maciej \u015awirski, \u201cReduta\u2019s\u201d President, testified during today\u2019s hearing. In his testimony he described Facebook&#8217;s discriminatory activity, in relation to conservative and patriotic content. In turn, the journalist S\u0142awomir Jastrz\u0119bowski was questioned as a witness, who published information about the Independence March. After this publication, Jastrz\u0119bowski&#8217;s Facebook account was blocked, due to, the phalanx symbol on the poster promoting the march. This symbol also appears on the Navy\u2019s flag. Having ones account suspended, was and is, a severe obstacle for a professional journalists work. Readers of the Super Express daily newspaper, took this to be a stigma and digital banishment, destroying the freedom of speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at 11.00 in the District Court in Warsaw, another hearing was held in the trail against Facebook. The claimant is Maciej \u015awirski, President of \u201c Reduta Dobrego Imienia\u201d. The charge in this case is, censorship and discrimination based on nationality, political views and religion. The portal was sued in a private action in 2016, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktualnosci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdi.org.pl\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}