"Week after week you want to shut mouths and harm freedom of expression," said Zehava Galon, leader of the opposition Meretz party.
Yet Ms Yamatani has form when it comes to disputing the historical basis of the practice of wartime sex slavery.Many reasonable people worry that a new hate-speech law, improperly drafted, could harm freedom of expression.
If Mr. Wilders were to confine his remarks to those Muslims who do harm freedom of speech by using violence against critics and apostates, he would have a valid point.
When Republicans do not stand up for the right to express one's opinion regardless of party, they enforce a kind of group-think that can only harm freedom of speech.
Critics say the new legislation will seriously harm freedom of expression and the flow of information online, while proponents say the bill's impact has been mischaracterized and the new amendments introduced in recent months will limit the worst excesses of the legislation.
The framework directive on the criminalisation of 'certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia' is liberticidal European legislation which does as much to harm freedom of thought and expression as the Gayssot and Taubira legislation in France.
"Such concentration of power in regulatory authorities is unprecedented in European democracies, and it harms media freedom," its media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatovic, said in a statement issued late last year.
"Pre-trial detention should be the exception, and keeping journalists in custody on dubious terrorism charges without clear justification harms media freedom and is likely to further dent Turkey's international reputation".
It is a deeply troubling charge, one that harms press freedom, because the prosecution's theory is that Manning aided the enemy by releasing information that was published in places where people who don't like the United States were able to read it.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the arrests will harm media freedom and chill free speech.
