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>>> Especially newspapers will take a serious stance against that and it will simply not work.

Or they won't, as you noticed they are owned by ex-politicians. Or they would, but the law gets passed anyway and what they do? They don't have 1st amendment to appeal to, so they get nothing.

>>> Free speech American Style is American, the EU is different, whether better or worse is not for me to decide

Why not for you? Nobody can prohibit you to think for yourself and decide if having freedom of speech is better or worse than not having it. Not even EU can, at least for now until they didn't invent "right not to be thought of".