How free is speech in the West when you can be imprisoned for saying the wrong number?

@Koefnielsen Holocaust denial is crime in France & can go to jail. How do you square this with free speech @ntfem @BBCr4today @ShirazMaher
— Vadgama (@Vadgama_) January 9, 2015

1. Austria
2. Belgium
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
4. Czech Republic
5. France
6. Germany
7. Hungary
8. Israel (is a Western colonial outpost, of course) 
9. Liechtenstein
10. Lithuania
11. Luxembourg
12. Netherlands
13. Poland
14. Portugal
15. Romania
16. Spain
17. Switzerland

are countries in which you could be imprisoned for saying the wrong number.  

David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial

BRITISH HISTORIAN DAVID IRVING was ambushed by eight Austrian Staatspolizei (Stapo) officers at gunpoint on November 11, 2005 when visiting Vienna to speak to university students on Adolf Eichmann, Joel Brand, and British code-breaking revelations. The arrest warrant had been issued 16 years earlier, November 8, 1989, at the written demand (Anzeige) of a Communist-front body, the Dokumentations-Archiv des Osterreichischen Widerstands (Document Center of the Austrian Resistance), issued the day before, as court records revealed. Mr. Irving was charged under Austria's 1945 "Verbotsgesetz" (Banning Law) with having uttered illegal opinions on history at a 1989 talk. On February 20, 2006 at a show trial staged in Austria's largest criminal courtroom with 200 spectators, he was sentenced to three years in jail. His lawyers triumphed in the Court of Appeal and he was released on Dec 21, 2006 after 400 days in solitary confinement in Austria's oldest jailhouse.

What number is Holocaust Denial? 

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II. Holocaust denial includes any of the following claims: that the German Nazi government's Final Solution policy aimed only at deporting Jews from the Reich, and included no policy to exterminate Jews; that Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers to mass murder Jews; and that the actual number of Jews killed was significantly (typically an order of magnitude) lower than the historically accepted figure of 5 to 6 million.

"An order of magnitude"? What does this mean? What is the number below which I cannot go if I were to speculate on how many Jews were killed by the Nazis in any of these 17 countries?

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Holocaust+Denial

Existence of Holocaust Denial laws = Existence of Thoughtcrime = Jewish Special Status = Jews protected from being caused gratuitous offence
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 13, 2015

BBC reporter faces calls to resign after he tells daughter of Holocaust survivors after Paris attacks: 'Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well'