President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a government bill that would have implemented the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in Poland. He argued that the law could enable state officials to limit free speech by censoring online content, warning that it risked introducing a form of administrative censorship. Nawrocki said the law would have given state officials excessive power to remove online content while undermining freedom of expression. “As president, I cannot sign a bill that effectively amounts to administrative censorship,” he said, comparing the proposed system to Orwell’s 1984. The veto threatens Poland with EU legal action and deepens a political standoff in Warsaw over how to regulate online content.
