In Poland, a writer Jakub Żulczyk is accused of insulting the President by calling him a "retard" on Facebook.

Daniel Tiles recalls a classic Polish illustration by Andrzej Mleczko (I think well from 80's):

"We're ruled by idiots" the man writes on the wall.

"Should we arrest him for insulting the authorities or for revealing state secrets", says the officer.

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@copyme And, as some have already pointed out, they are actually suppressing freedom of speech while at the same time speaking of introducing laws to guarantee* freedom of speech in social networks!

* after some alt-right hate speech was deplatformed from FB/Twitter

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