Cenzura w demokracji (przyczynek do ograniczania i nadużywania wolności słowa)

The fight for freedom of speech in Poland has been going on since the Four-Year Sejm (1798–1792). It is still an ongoing issue in democratic Poland. The author analyses the effects of the removal of censorship during the November Uprising (1831) and the Warsaw Rising (1944) as well as the fight for free speech in the II Republic of Poland and from 1944 to 1989. Selected examples prove how much freedom of speech in the III Republic of Poland annoys the governing class and how its representatives fight it with all available means, trying to gain control over the media and to subordinate journalists and media owners. However, it is obvious that freedom of speech can be neither destroyed nor forbidden.