-- KUKIZ ON THE VOTE ON ACTA2, NEXT SEJM SESSION SHORTENED - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/09/13

-- RINGER AXEL SPRINGER CONSOLIDATES COMPANIES, NO LONGER Onet Group BUT RINGER AXEL SPRINGER POLSKA - WIRTUALNE MEDIA: “As previously announced, seven companies belonging to the Onet-RAS Polska Group have been merged into a single new legal entity – Ringier Axel Springer Polska. As of September this year, the new company is represented by a 5-person management board headed by Marek Dekan as CEO. Aleksander Kutela, the former head of Onet, is the vice-president.” https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/mark-dekan-prezes-ringier-axel-springer-polska-aleksander-kutela-wiceprezesem

-- LESZEK MILLER WRITES TO DÖPFNER: “Together with my wife, I have written a letter to Mr. Mathias Döpfner, Chairman of the Board of Axel Springer SE in Berlin. I did so in the conviction that the head of a powerful concern that publishes, among others, the nationwide daily 'Fakt,' should be aware of the feelings of the parents of a tragically deceased son, whose death was accompanied in that newspaper by the words: ‘The father chose politics, and the son chose the noose.’ The publication under this title appeared on the front page of the weekend supplement on the same day we were laying our only child's urn to rest.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/leszek-miller-ktos-ten-tytul-w-fakcie-wymyslil-aa-mWNC-Ugwd-MKHY.html

-- THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT – FREE, DEBATED, UNCOMPROMISING – IS JUST GOING INTO HISTORY, ALSO THANKS TO THE PLATFORM - Michał Karnowski: “Just one reservation, because everyone here is mistaken: this is not a fight for copyright, which is fully in force today, this is a fight for related rights. And that is a fundamental difference. Today, artists have related rights to their works; now, producers of all other content, including media concerns, are to receive them. This means subjecting all references, quotes, allusions, adaptations, including to articles, recordings, programs, broadcasts, to restrictive limitations. This will affect comments on Facebook and Twitter, memes, YouTube content, search engine results. This will be a powerful change, the scale of which ordinary internet users do not even suspect, and which will mean that the internet as we know it, free, debated, uncompromising, is just going into history.”

-- KARNOWSKI ON LIMITING LINKING: “Linking will not actually be forbidden, but it will significantly change. Links will no longer contain so-called snippets, i.e., a header with the title of the linked text, sometimes one/two lead sentences or a photo, and will be just a collection of meaningless characters. Since readers need to know what a link leads to before clicking, websites almost always contain fragments of links to pages within the link. Any restrictions on fragments are therefore a restriction on linking.” https://wpolityce.pl/m/media/411992-za-sprawa-po-ten-internet-jaki-znamy-odchodzi-do-historii

-- MEPs CONTRIBUTED TO INTERNET CENSORSHIP - MARCIN MAKOWSKI ON WP: “In this situation, we all, as internet users, must ask ourselves whether we want a web that officials are preparing behind our backs, supported by some Polish MEPs, or if we are content with its current form, which only needs to be slightly civilized? Protecting copyrights is a reasonable thing, but protection bordering on the stifling of public debate is a direct path to censorship and the monopolization of communication, which the internet has so far resisted. Although linking will not be forbidden – as bureaucrats claim – its nature will change.”

-- MAKOWSKI RECALLS TVN'S MASS MEME DELETION CAMPAIGN: “We can forget about so-called snippets, i.e., frames with photos, text titles, and the first few sentences, popular on social media. The vagueness and ambiguity of the law also favor large corporations that can afford to enforce it and maintain a team monitoring posted content. The publication of memes will also be restricted, which – as the example of their mass deletion by TVN on social media has shown – will be considered an infringement of copyright to the image of their own stars, content, or texts. There are many similar curiosities, but unfortunately, there is less and less time and space to stop them. And we, as internet users, should not surrender without a fight.” https://opinie.wp.pl/marcin-makowski-acta-2-na-ostatniej-prostej-europoslowie-przylozyli-reke-do-cenzury-sieci-6294592279144065a

-- EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REINS IN THE INTERNET - GW's front page headline.

-- NOWACKA MAKES A BIG MISTAKE - WANDA NOWICKA WRITES ON WYBORCZA.PL: “Regarding Barbara Nowacka – I believe she is making a big mistake. The leader of the ‘Let's Save Women’ project, which failed in the Sejm partly due to her current allies, makes such a volte-face a few months after that disgraceful event. With all due respect to Barbara for ‘Let's Save Women,’ I will not hide that I take her decision very personally. Having fought for decades for Polish women's right to legal and accessible abortion, I saw in her a worthy successor to the fight for reproductive rights, who would achieve what I failed to do. Undoubtedly, Nowacka will enter the Sejm, but by joining Civic Platform, she is effectively burying Inicjatywa Polska (Polish Initiative), though I won't cry over it. However, putting reproductive rights on hold, not to say betraying them, is a completely different matter. In Civic Coalition, she will have to soften or even postpone women's rights.”

-- REMOVING PiS IS VERY IMPORTANT, BUT A RETURN TO PO's POLITICS WOULD BE UNBEARABLE - WANDA NOWICKA CONTINUES: “Some will say that removing PiS from power is the most important thing. But I will reply: yes, it is very important, but returning to what was, returning to the politics led by PO, would be unbearable and would not ensure changes for the better. Nowacka will not change Platform, but she herself will often have to agree to compromises she doesn't even dream of today. Well, the destructive gene, present in the Polish left for a long time, will bury its chances of returning to the big political scene for a long time. So are we forever doomed to PO-PiS? Or perhaps Biedroń will succeed…” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23913193,barbara-nowacka-popelnila-wielki-blad.html

-- LUDWIK DORN WRITES THAT THE PO-PiS COMPROMISE ON SOCIAL ISSUES STILL STANDS, WILL THE LEFT DESTROY IT? - writes on gazeta.pl: “Therefore, despite polarizing declarations and symbolic acts, a compromise in social matters and the state's relationship with the Catholic Church still holds, which, through numerous and sharp conflicts, was politically established in the 1990s. I believe the reason for this is the lack of political force and concrete individuals on the left-liberal side in the Sejm who would seriously dedicate themselves to overturning it. It now persists by inertia and is being undermined by symbolic acts. There is simply no organized left or left-wing politicians in the Sejm. If they appear and start fighting for their cause, the survival of this compromise will be highly questionable, and a dramatic cultural conflict will become a daily occurrence in Poland. And this is the most important reason why it is worth paying attention to the left; perhaps the tail that is tucked today will grow, begin to wave proudly, and so shake the political dog that its paws will start to tangle.” http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,161770,23910582,dorn-lewicowy-ogonek-czy-intensywnym-machaniem-mozna-zmienic.html

-- THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER IN THE OPPOSITION - Rafał Zakrzewski on Wyborcza.pl: “But there are too many variables to assess the accuracy of these scenarios. Today, the most important thing seems to be that we do not kill each other in the broadly understood democratic opposition camp. And to remember where the main adversary is.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23912105,najwazniejsze-zebysmy-sie-w-obozie-demokratycznym-nie-pozabijali.html

-- WASSERMANN ON ELIMINATING LOW-QUALITY COAL: “The health of the inhabitants is paramount, and we cannot afford further deterioration of air quality simply for economic reasons. Coal of poor quality should be eliminated from the market or designated for industrial furnaces where filters ensure compliance with standards.” https://dziennikpolski24.pl/dosc-zlej-jakosci-wegla-w-kotlach-polskich-domow-grzmia-kandydaci-na-prezydenta-krakowa-wiekszosc-zada-ostrych-norm-natychmiast/ar/13488465

-- JAKI INVITES COUNTER-CANDIDATES FOR A TALK - GUZIAŁ's REACTION, AS DESCRIBED BY STOŁECZNA: “Piotr Guział arrived with his own coffee cup. – I came to talk about Warsaw. It's a great idea to start the conversation even before the first round – Guział assessed. He doesn't have the support of any organization and might have trouble registering the election lists necessary for him to run (the deadline is Monday). – I want to talk about freedom in our city, whether Mr. Jaki will respect the freedom of culture, the freedom to express one's views, whether there will be the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity in every district, whether there will be the Equality Parade, the freedom of art – Piotr Guział listed.” http://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,23913193,kandydaci-na-prezydenta-warszawy-spotkali-sie-w-kawiarni-u.html

-- LENA KOLARSKA-BOBIŃSKA POSITIVELY ABOUT GOWIN's REFORM - in Kulturze Liberalnej: “This reform offers opportunities for good changes, but at the same time, it does not require them from universities. Its effects may be diluted if large financial resources do not follow. Legal changes are only part of the process and must be accompanied by incentives and rewards for the best. And this government will not increase funding for science because it is focused on social issues, even though it promised innovation.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2018/09/12/kolarska-bobinska-wywiad-reforma-gowin-komentarz/

-- DUDA SENDS JUDGES AWAY BY COURIER - GW headline.

-- SUPREME COURT RAISES THE WHITE FLAG - DGP headline.

-- JUDGE ZABŁOCKI: I AM SAD THAT THE PRESIDENT DID NOT WAIT FOR THE CJEU RULING: “I still believe that the provisions of the law which served as the legal basis for the President to declare my retirement are – concerning judges who began their service in the Supreme Court before the new Supreme Court Act entered into force – inconsistent with the constitutional principle of the irremovability of judges, interpreted correctly, i.e., in conjunction with the constitutional standards of independence of the judiciary from the other two branches of power and the impartiality of judges,” stated Zabłocki.” https://fakty.interia.pl/polska/news-sedzia-zablocki-jest-mi-smutno-ze-prezydent-nie-poczekal-na-,nId,2630344

-- EWA SIEDLECKA WONDERS IF THERE WILL BE ANYONE LEFT IN THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE CJEU RULING TO APPLY TO: “Judge Zabłocki made his decision and has every right to do so. It should be appreciated that he explained his motivation to public opinion. This includes the citizens of the Republic of Poland, who have been standing every day at 8 AM outside the Supreme Court for two months, greeting the judges with a banner saying 'Stay.' Although one can regret that he too did not wait for the decision of the Court of Justice on the suspension of pension regulations. Perhaps the remaining judges retired today by the president will do so. President Gersdorf probably intends to go on leave, as she has appointed Judge Dariusz Zawistowski, President of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court, as her deputy during her absence. Zawistowski was made acting First President of the Supreme Court by the president the day before. When the Court of Justice answers the question of law from the Supreme Court, will there still be anyone in that court to whom the answer could apply?” https://siedlecka.blog.polityka.pl/2018/09/12/czy-trybunal-sprawiedliwosci-bedzie-mial-komu-odpowiedziec/?nocheck=1

-- WITOLD GADOMSKI WRITES THAT EUROPEAN ELITES WILL NOT RECONCILE THEMSELVES WITH POLAND'S DRIFT: “Poles are more attached to European values, and Poland is more important to Europe than Hungary. European elites will not easily reconcile themselves with Poland's drift eastward. The Kaczyński party still has a significant advantage in the countryside, but the crop failure, drought, and ASF epidemic are constantly undermining its position.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23913154,budapeszt-w-warszawie-jeszcze-nie.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Michał Majewski, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Jarosław Wałęsa, Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, Janusz Tomaszewski.