It probably is a free speech issue. Free speech is not the end-all and be-all, in Europe at least. Person A wants to put a photograph of Person B on facebook.

It probably is a free speech issue. Free speech is not the end-all and be-all, in Europe at least. Person A wants to put a photograph of Person B on facebook. Person B does not want their image on facebook. Person A has a right to freedom of expression. Person B has a right to privacy. These two rights are in conflict in this case. It's not that we're not respecting freedom of expression - it's simply not that absolute. It's that we're drawing the line between one person's rights and another's, and Europe often draws that line in different places than the US does. But be clear - both A and B have rights here. The only way to be absolute about one person's rights is to disregard the other's.