I think we have to be careful about how misinformation is labelled. We are seeing a lot of politicians talking about 'fake news' when it can just be reports that are critical of them. Setting the perception of journalists as publishing lies can put them in danger and we see journalists around the world being imprisoned or murdered. We have to watch that does not start happening in our own countries.
I think in the UK Pirate Bay is pretty much blocked by ISPs. I think the only time I used it was to download legal music. Nine Inch Nails put some up there for free. The media companies have a lot of influence on government, but we need to protect legitimate sources outside their influence.
I notice on that map that the UK, Canada, USA and Australia all have issues with journalistic freedom.
I'm with you fully! We shall be careful indeed about what we 'censor' and how we do this. I must say, I don't have a perfect solution at all. I know it is so difficult when deciding on some content not be 'allowed' or at least 'so much not wanted' that we need to do something about it.
That said, I also realise more and more larger part of society can be steered in certain directions by a small group of people, quite easily; Especially in this day and age where we have the Internet available all day long. I can give a few other examples that happened in the Netherlands, which is driving a change in public/collective 'opinion', while only a few actually have a real opinion while the rest are just following the none-relevant and in some case BS arguments.
Journalists shall be protected for sure. But their work is of a different category than the 'fake news' created and promoted on social media, mostly (if not always) by others than journalist. That said: I must say, journalism is not what it was before. Probably by the fast pace of news spread across the Internet, depth in journalism is mostly gone, as fact checking is - more or less - gone as well. Sure, this doesn't count for many journalists and news channels, but in every country we have those channels (paper, TV, Internet) through which the quick - not checked - news is pushed out.
And the case with Pirate Bay: I think the ban of this service should not have been executed. The content uploaders should've been gone after; Although I also know this was and still is a very time consuming activity, and maybe not even possible to find them; And when found them, to prosecute them.
Long story short: Agree with you we shall be very careful with censoring and applying rules to Freedom of Speech and Word.