Germany has been successful in shaking of attempts to censor the net. Also the pirate party is gaining support every day and is at 11% on the federal level and entered a couple state parliaments.
A lot of YouTube videos cannot be played in Germany.
Part of that is due to music licencing laws and not allowing it to be streamed in Germany. More of a copyright case than free speech.
Though Germany does have some laws, like it's illegal to show the swastika, or to deny that the holocaust happened, etc.
I'm a supporter of the Pirate Party, but the recent history (think Ursula von der Leyen, who constantly tries to ruin different ressorts with braindead ideas) shows that the state considers censorship a viable approach to 'problems'.
In addition, the EU/Brussels are delivering far too much to the US on a silver plate (travel data was the last news) and really like their data retention laws.
The EU is not yet lost, but tries hard to make a lot of wrong decisions.