"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." -Mark Twain
After all, it’s EU’s freedom which is at stake.
Worse even, it is typically a case where EU can loose some legal power to the European court of human right. Logically, the ECHR should have primacy over the EUCJ, but technically and legally, it does not yet. Any case as broad as this, if the EUCJ is forced by the parliement to enforce it against human rights, would trigger a shit storm, and the EUCJ would either have to bow to the ECHR, or a new constitution would have to be drafted and voted on, and _that_ would be an even worse shitstorm.
But freedom is only a part of human rights, there is also 'equality' in front of the law, and if you admit one exception for non-defense related reasons, you'll get censored by the echr too.