You are confusing 'freedom' and 'power'. On the most popular analysis, to be free is to be deprived of a personal power which one has, e.g. for some force to i

You are confusing 'freedom' and 'power'. On the most popular analysis, to be free is to be deprived of a personal power which one has, e.g. for some force to interfere and stop you from exercising your capacity for speech. We cannot have been unfree to use facebook before the invention of facebook because we never had that power, and because it is not a personal power, but an instrumental power outside of our person.