{"id":11439,"date":"2026-06-11T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/11439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:56:08","slug":"poland-to-jail-online-streamers-of-violent-crime-rape-cruelty-for-up-to-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/11439\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to jail online streamers of violent crime, rape, cruelty for up to 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WARSAW, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Polish lawmakers voted on Thursday to crack down on so-called &#8216;trash streaming&#8217;, \u200cimposing jail terms of up to five \u200cyears for online broadcasts of crimes like rape and murder as \u200bwell as cruelty to animals and violence aimed at humiliating people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The move is part of a broader push by Poland to tighten regulation of online content. \u200cRecent measures include \u2060banning the use of mobile phones by children under 16 in schools and \u2060introducing stricter age verification rules to access pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under the new provisions, broadcasting crimes punishable by more than \u200bfive years \u200bin prison, including murder \u200bor rape, will itself \u200cbe classed as a separate offence punishable by up to five years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The law also covers content showing cruelty to animals, violence aimed at humiliating others, and the promotion of gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The same penalties \u200cwill apply to individuals who \u200bsimulate or falsely portray the \u200bcommission of such \u200bcrimes while streaming, lawmakers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Union \u200cregulates illegal content and \u200blive-streamed crimes through \u200bthe Digital Services Act (DSA), requiring platforms to swiftly remove material that promotes violence or severe \u200bharm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Holding the creators \u200cof such content responsible is, however, regulated \u200bby individual countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by \u200bEditing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Polish lawmakers voted on Thursday to crack down on so-called &#8216;trash streaming&#8217;, \u200cimposing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8374,8375,9,8376],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-cruelty-to-animals","tag-online-content","tag-poland","tag-rape-and-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}