What does this twitter post mean? I’m looking for an actual Poland explanation not silly twitter

by Alt-F4-for-freeVbuck

27 comments

  1. Okay so what happend is :

    Previous government was using TV channels for straight propaganda. Current goverment is recreating them, so they shut it down while waiting for next representatives of those channels.

    Good change tho, but we need to see whats gonna happen in next months.

  2. The point is that the far right-wing party has just lost power in Poland, the new government is closing down the state television, which for 8 years of rule by the right-wing party was used to spread anti-Europe propaganda.

  3. Pro-PiS (right wing rulling party that lost the elections) television had change of management, but yesterday they went all drama queen and stoped airing program before the new management can take over

  4. Phew. Imagine you own hundreds or thousends of diffrent companies. You hire president to run one of them for you. At some point you dont like him so you decide to fire that guy and hire new one. Some of workers doesnt like that change and start riots and imply that you are not allowed to do that. That’s pretty much what is happening.

  7. there is nothing to worry about – 8 years of rule by a nationalist, hateful party is coming to an end. all changes are now made into a drama

  8. That’s how you u-turn on a road to whatever Hungary is now

  9. Regarding the twitter post – apparently for some alt right X nutjobs Poland was some conservative paradise. Now Centrist-Left coalition won so it ended to nutjob’s terrible disappointment.

    More seriously what happened:

    Previous government turned public TV (which, to be fair, was always more or less biased) into pure propaganda outlet. Very simple and brutal one. They literally changed colors on videos of opposition leader (now PM) Tusk making his face red, framed him during the interviews so he looks like he has horns and so on. In general narrative was that ruling party was great, saving Poland from everyone, especially those evil germans, opposition wasn’t even poles, they wanted to sell the country to EU and Germany. They also changed some laws so even though they lost election they still had control over public TV.

    Now the new government found some loophole (or so it claims, I’m not a lawyer) and yesterday fired all management of public tv news channel and replaced ceo with their man. The process started with stopping the broadcast of the news channel, there also weren’t any news shown on any of public tv channels.

    The former government is of course protesting, trying to paint it as some coup.

  11. Globohomo sounds like some kind of diary farmers conspiracy

  12. Nah it’s a revenge – TVP wanna to close TVN before, but that don’t happen – so TVN closed TVP in revenge – but that is only about one channel “info” – nothing crazy – TVP and TVN are 2 main governments power propaganda stations here

  13. Its just prove that they dont differ at all.

    During previous PO stint in government TVP was also propaganda channel (not on that lvl of course), but they also had TVN (“private” TV) by their side. PiS started their time, they took control over TVP and raise the level of propaganda to really high level. Now we have communistic style of taking control over public TV and will probably see again propaganda 😀

    They dont differ too much to be honest. Public TV should have never existed. It should be just destroyed, buildings sold and people shouldn’t be forced to pay for that kind of shit.

    Public TV is always place for propaganda and its first step to take control over society and their way of thinking (thankfully more and more youngsters dont watch tv).

  14. Previous goverment recreated public tv into propaganda machine.

    New goverment had to take care of it.

    Old goverment (Pis) occupied broadcasting station. At night new goverment shut off every TVP Info signal (the propaga tv), there were some attempts at emmiting partisan signals (Broadcasting on other tvp signals which were disabled after 20 seconds or so), youtube streams, basically everything they could do.

    Back in broadcasting station out of nowhere the new manager of TVP just walked in to announce he is in charge here from now on PiS and their TV pawns argued with him, someone called Police, new goverment had to use force to overtake the broadcasting station (not military or anything but one PiS member had her arm damaged allegedly, which probably didn’t happen actually and she’s just simulating)

    Honestly it was quite exciting but not very clean overtaking of public tv

  15. This is a very deep lore and you’d have to go back years to understand it but long story short, the previous right wing gov did everything in their power to make it so, that the party is in charge of all legal rulings and can bend the law to their will, while making it so that it should be impossible to quickly shutdown their main propaganda channels legally- turned out there was a (risky) loophole that allowed it and now they are crying that freedom of speech is being violated, even though they did everything in their power over the past 8 years to make sure the national tv and a ton of magazines (that they have bought with taxpayers money) only produce propaganda.

    Now they are trying to pose as victims as they know very well, losing their propaganda will most likely be the end of the whole party and they have not expected it to happen.

    Anyway, as i said before, to understand everything behind it you’d have to read a ton of material about past 8 years- there is a lot of paid trolls online as well that spread misinformation on sites like reddit as well to make the whole thing look as bad as possible.

  17. Pomimo tego że to była pisowska telewizja, jednak fajnie było mieć wybór pomiędzy Pisowskim TVP, Koalicyjnym TVN, i Polsatem którego mało oglądam, przynajmniej było można poznać opinię stron na jakieś tematy.

    Trochę nie demokratycznie byczki, no w mojej opini nie popisaliście się pozytywnie.

  18. This is how democracy works. IT creates theater where are 2 big opponents and who wins the fight have the right to tell the ultimate truth to the audience.

  19. almost all tv stations in Poland are foreign owned, and put out the same propaganda crap

    public tv was ruled by governing party that was showing something else, but this pluraility of opinions being show was fascism

    so now we will have only one worldview, on every channel. democracy.

  20. Personally I am shocked how this was handled by current goverment. It doesn’t look good or have a positive outlook for future if they are going to govern like this.

  21. Public national tv was used for propaganda by the ruling party for the last 8 years. Now they lost elections and cant accept defeat.

    Now they are throwing childish tantrums and lying that they are defending freedom of speech (while it was actually them who turned public, national, tax-funded tv into one party’s propaganda). Its really pathetic of them.

  22. Polish television is being taken over by pro German political party that gained power in the Polish parlament. They were controlling some other TV stations before and now they’re taking over the main one

  23. We had Nort Korea style public TV last 8 years.
    New government kicked them out.

    Looks bad outside, but basically everyone except past rulling party is happy about it, since it was Goebbels lvl shit.

  24. Idiotic borderline Nazi Americans who fetishize Poland 24/7 think that getting rid of a literal propaganda channel is the fall of society. Nothing new and nothing important

  25. New liberal government, which spent last 8 years in opposition, crying about death of democracy and rule of law, decided to illegaly take over state media in the second week of their rule.

  26. Reddit is leftie so you can hear here explanation why Tusks law breaking is justified. In fact – he has sold country to European Oligarchy and he have a free hand from them to subjugate country even if it means breaking law. Totalitarian government hidden under the stories about preserving democracy. Plenty of people won’t admit that because they are brainwashed. I am just wishing them painful 2024 😉

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