Freedom is never given. It is always taken. If you expect freedom to be given to you by others you are already a slave and you will remain a slave until you grow a pair and take your freedom.

So basically your level of freedom will always be a function of the size of your balls.

There will always be risks and inconveniences in connection to your public speech. There will always be powerful people who will hate what you say publicly and try to punish you. This is a historical constant. Todays climate of censorship and cancellations is not so much the result of evil people in power but of a general climate of cowardice in the populations. Too many feel they have too much to lose to take any risk or inconvenience. Those in power only exploit this pathetic state of affairs, as everybody else would in their place.