I'm posting this in the context of the assertion made in another topic that the "political correctness" could not possibly harm the freedom of speech. Well, apparently it can.
According to the project initiated by Dragnea, social defamation represents the act or the statement through which a person is put in a position of inferiority because he belongs to a group of people “who can be socially distinguished through one or more features related to gender, age, race, religion, ethnic origin, native language, cultural traditions, political affiliation, sexual orientation, social origin, disability, non-contagious disease, or HIV/AIDS infection." [1]
What's really happening is that, under the pretext of good & noble intentions, an Orwellian law is in the process of being passed by the Romanian social democrat majority, whose Prime Minister Ponta has been for years accused (with solid evidence, in my view) of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. As an effect of the new law, such accusations could be legally incriminated from now on, on the ground of attacking "cultural traditions", or "political affiliation".
What you'd probably think now is that such things could not happen in a more advanced democracy. Well, not in that rough form (which is indeed specific to a more primitive political climate than yours). Which doesn't mean you'd be right, or that you're safe from more subtle attempts or forms of impairing free speech and a honest endeavor of truth, in the name of a "politically correct" agenda.