> There’s no “Free World” anymore. <
You are 100% correct. Any freedoms we think we have are just an illusion. If sone official wants that freedom gone, it’s gone.
Hate speech, hate crime, offense against public order, spreading disinformation, etc … they have an entire toolbox of made-up charges to use against you.
As an example, a UK college student called a police horse “gay” (yes, the student was drinking). That harmless remark got him arrested.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6556379.student-fined-gay-horse-comment/
Why didn’t the policeman just say his horse is straighter than the pole the drunkard’s Mom danced around?