This is why people started calling "laws" like this Soviet. In the USSR there were so many laws and so much selective enforcement that the state could use many tools to "legally" imprison anyone they want. The US and many other governments have been moving in the direction for many years.

Just like people getting fined for calling John Adams "His Rotundity".

Does italy have any free speech protections?

European laws about the press have always fascinated me. For instance, having a limit on what someone could be sued for in slander is wild. Let's say some incorrect story runs that costs someone hundreds of thousands if not millions they are capped in the tens of thousands level even though they lost much more.

Regulating what people say to is just as wild. The European mind could never wrap there head around the brutal US media lol