Fragment from Romania's constitution. 

Art. 30 - Freedom of expression
(1) The freedom to express thoughts, opinions or beliefs and the freedom of creation of any kind, orally, in writing, through images, through sounds or through other means of communication in public, are inviolable.

(2) Censorship of any kind is prohibited.

(3) Freedom of the press also implies the freedom to set up publications.

(4) No publication may be suppressed.

(5) The law may impose on the mass media the obligation to make public the source of financing.

(6) Freedom of expression may not prejudice the dignity, honor, private life of the person or the right to one's own image.

(7) Defamation of the country and the nation, incitement to war of aggression, national, racial, class or religious hatred, incitement to discrimination, territorial separatism or public violence, as well as obscene manifestations, contrary to good morals, are prohibited by law. .

(8) The civil responsibility for the information or for the creation brought to public knowledge rests with the publisher or director, the author, the organizer of the artistic event, the owner of the means of multiplication, of the radio or television station, in accordance with the law. Press offenses are established by law.

Source: constitutia.ro
You can easily use google translate if you're curious, it's very accurate.

re: Fragment from Romania's constitution. 

@alyx Romania is very pro-freedom of speech.

Unless... you talk something the government dislikes

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/10/16/Italian-Parliament-introduces-holocaust-denial-legislation/32801381924558/
@waltercool @alyx Holocaust denial is banned in a lot of Eastern European countries, but that's a bit like those countries banning spanking - it's mostly a symbolic ban to appease Western Europeans, and doesn't remotely reflect how the people actually think and act.
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We had a case of a minister of external affairs that got into trouble for saying that the Holocaust in Romania wasn't that bad. So I guess that, at the very least if you're a public figure, you'd get into trouble for anything close to Holocaust denial.

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@alyx @waltercool Yeah, because at that point it makes international news, and then they have to make use of laws that generally are merely symbolic.
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