Law and Justice (PiS) politicians Patryk Jaki and Tobiasz Bocheński organized a meeting with students near the University Library in Wrocław. They were unable to hold the event on university premises, as their meetings under the banner “Change Our Mind” had been censored by the university authorities.
“Censorship is for dictatorships”
Among those commenting on the matter on X was Sebastian Kaleta, who argued that “it is not censorship, but debate that is a far more effective tool in combating disinformation in a democratic state.”
“The fact that yesterday several hundred students and residents of Wrocław had to stand in the cold because the university refused to provide a hall says more about the state of democracy in Poland than the foolish theses expressed by that young man. Because through silence and censorship, such theses will not disappear, they will quietly proliferate. Only by publicly refuting them in debate can this process be stopped. That is the democratic approach; censorship is for dictatorships,”
he stressed.
Rząd chce cenzurować internet, władze uczelni w Polsce cenzurują debatę.
— Sebastian Kaleta (@sjkaleta) February 25, 2026
Przykład niżej pokazuje, że nie cenzura, ale debata jest o wiele bardziej skutecznym narzędziem walki z dezinformacją w demokratycznym państwie.
A fakt, że wczoraj kilkuset studentów i mieszkańców… https://t.co/wvGzwnHH5K
One topic raised by PiS politicians during the meeting was the SAFE program. Jaki assessed that it is “unfavorable for Poland and constitutes a betrayal of Poland,” and that the conditionality mechanism in particular is especially dangerous.
He also emphasized that arms purchases should be financed through national bonds rather than eurobonds.
“The second issue is that under the SAFE program, 80 percent of the weapons purchased must be produced within the EU, and the best military equipment is not always manufactured in the EU. By taking out a loan independently, we can buy whatever we want, including equipment from the United States,”
the Member of the European Parliament argued.
Oskar Szafarowicz also addressed the issue of censorship at universities.
“As a student of the University of Warsaw, I feel obliged to speak out and express my opposition to restrictions on freedom of speech in the academic sphere. The draft resolution of the student government, which blocks the possibility of organizing an open meeting with politicians from a legally operating political party (which won the highest number of votes in the last parliamentary elections and held power from 2015 to 2023), is a scandalous and unacceptable trampling of the freedom of discussion and unfettered freedom of speech, especially in the academic sphere, which should symbolize the exchange of ideas. P.S. I would defend politicians from other parties (including far-left ones) in the same way if they dared to engage in discussion and meet with the University of Warsaw academic community,”
he noted.
Jako student Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego czuję się w obowiązku zabrać głos i wyrazić swój sprzeciw wobec ograniczenia wolności słowa w przestrzeni akademickiej.
— Oskar Szafarowicz (@Szafarowicz2001) February 25, 2026
Projekt uchwały samorządu studenckiego, która blokuje możliwość zorganizowania otwartego spotkania z politykami… pic.twitter.com/JRPeg3FyAq