Paula Sawicka, the Chairwoman of the Program Board of the Open Republic reminds in the interview with Poznań edition of Gazeta Wyborcza about our portal www.zglosnienawisc.otwarta.org: “One may report an incident personally or ask us to do it. Not everything that people report is placed in our database. We try to check the information very carefully, analyze and filter. It is advised to send photos and other materials of the best possible quality. […] And we never publish the unchecked piece of information. Not every incident can be qualified as violation of law or inciting hatred. […] A lot of bad things happen in the public space. Verbal aggression is more and more frequently replaced by physical attacks. And such incidents either meet with indifference or cause a paralyzing fear. It is possible that such phenomena occurred in our society for quite a long time, but for many years we did not notice the power of this phenomenon, because it was not mentioned or opposed”.

Paula also reminds that freedom of speech has its limits: “The limit of my freedom of speech ends where another man’s freedom begins. It is worth remembering, beginning from our close environment. And we should keep to ask ourselves, if, as the decent citizens, we want to live in a world full of aggression and to allow such things to happen next to us”.