Angelo Panebianco on increasing censorship in Europe

The law on the condemnation of the negation of the Armenian genocide adopted by the French National assembly on October 12th is very controversial. The Italian university professor Angelo Panebianco considers that this constitutes the censoring of freedom of expression and deplores European conformism. "This law is not, as the French daily 'Liberation' described it, a useless law, it is a freedom killing law. The most recent in a series that is tightening the noose around the throat of free expression in Europe. Freedom of expression can be measured by the capacity to hold aberrant, or seemingly aberrant opinions as such in the eyes of the greatest number. ... Let us leave citizens the right to express non-conformist and even aberrant opinions, for the ears of governments and the majorities".

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