If it is actually in defence of democracy sure. I have lived in nations with a press council before and the press quality was better than in the ones without on

If it is actually in defence of democracy sure. I have lived in nations with a press council before and the press quality was better than in the ones without one. In the end the only true defence are people that want to uphold democracy. If you have them, laws can be phrased as badly as you like, if you don't, then they can be phrased as well as you like, they will "only" buy you time. If your gov. makes bad laws, don't elect them next time. And if your only defence of the freedom of the press is to make coroporations people (but only if it benefits them), those are bad laws.